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Syria

Calls for a new peace movement

"A peace activist organized practice is absent," says Marielle Leraand in Rødt til Ny Tid. Should the party's main be the fight against a Difference Norway or an attempt to re-establish the peace movement? Leerand says that the peace movement has been virtually dead since 2003.
Kaisa Ytterhaug -

Inside Syria: two lived experiences

American Reese Erlich and Syrian Yassin al-Haj Saleh go in depth and depth in their books on the war in Syria, respectively.
Named Mohammadkhani -

Can the New Democracy in Northern Syria Survive?

The third Turkish invasion of northern Syria: the rescue or downfall of a new type of democracy.
Erling Folkvord -

Meanwhile, in Syria, Libya, Bosnia

In Bosnia, peace created the ethnic divide no general, no army, no genocide would achieve. Will the same thing happen in Syria?
Francesca Borri -

The war as a show

What does a radio DJ do when her homeland turns into one of the world's most gruesome battlefields? Obaidah Zytoon chose to make a documentary about it.
Dieter Wieczorek -

Aleppo's fall from the inside

The fall of Aleppo takes a hilltop view of the Syrian conflict and occasionally comes dangerously close to the drama in Syria's capital. 
Aleksander Huser -

Movie review without critical sense?

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Aleksander Huser -

"All the warring parties in Syria are criminals"

We met Syrian peace activist Maram Daoud during the world's largest peace political festival.
Aslak Storaker -

The reviewer's reviews

Documentaries claim to represent the facts – they cannot be judged solely on how much emotional touch they have.
lars@birkelund.no -

No way back

Filmmaker Alfoz Tanjour shouldered the considerable task of documenting what happens beyond the tragedy of the war, in the private rooms of a population that has been suppressed by the Assad regime over the past 50 years.
Dieter Wieczorek -

More politician contempt now!

Don't the politicians know what the consequences of their decision are? Yes – but only when there is something to brag about.
larsbir@hotmail.com -

Peace with Freud 

In a civil war ravaged Syria, Rafah Nached continued his work as a psychoanalyst. It would cost her dearly.
midttunb@online.no -

The war without a front line

Who are the jihadists in the Syrian war? 
Francesca Borri -

We must not think that we are only dreaming

Cruel situations are real to those in question – no matter how numinous we may become to considering the suffering of others.
petra.schlomer@gmail.com -

They forgot the power of memories

A strong film about Beirut's construction workers won at Visions du Réel in Switzerland. 
Dieter Wieczorek -

One day in Aleppo

How desperate can it not seem to try, as film directors constantly do, to get the world to act, and to end the war in Syria? We have met one of those fighting this fight.
Truls Lie -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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