{"id":36005,"date":"2025-01-28T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=36005"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:20:20","slug":"roundtable-discussion-syrias-cultural-renaissance-boom-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/event\/roundtable-discussion-syrias-cultural-renaissance-boom-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable Discussion: Syria\u2019s Cultural Renaissance \u2014 Boom or Bust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/6017380758605\/WN_1HkPxIz1TRmGdatfHaebYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSVP here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creative outburst of the 2011 revolution broke through Syria\u2019s \u201ckingdom of silence\u201d and revealed new art, voices, and writing never before seen or heard. As the country emerges from a 53-year-long dictatorship, can culture heal old wounds? Will creative minds envision the building blocks needed for the new Syria? Some say, the current challenges are insurmountable. Explore possibilities with BBC correspondent and film director Lina Sinjab, filmmaker Yasmin Fedda, and fiction writer Odai Al Zoubi. Moderated by Malu Halasa, TMR\u2019s Literary Editor and co-author of <em>Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline<\/em> (2014).<\/p>\n<p>This roundtable discussion will take place online on Wednesday, February 12th at 1pm EST\/ 6pm UK\/ 7pm CET.<\/p>\n<p>This online event is free and open to the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donations<\/a> are welcome to support The Markaz Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/6017380758605\/WN_1HkPxIz1TRmGdatfHaebYw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSVP here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33498 size-thumbnail\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Odai-Alzoubi-Fondation-Jan-Michalski-\u00a9-Wiktoria-Bosc-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Odai-Alzoubi-Fondation-Jan-Michalski-\u00a9-Wiktoria-Bosc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Odai-Alzoubi-Fondation-Jan-Michalski-\u00a9-Wiktoria-Bosc-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Odai-Alzoubi-Fondation-Jan-Michalski-\u00a9-Wiktoria-Bosc-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Odai Al Zoubi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Syrian short-story writer, essayist, and translator. His short story collections include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nisf ibtisma\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[A\u00a0Half Smile]<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House, 2022); <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kitab alhikma wa alsathaja\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[The Book of Wisdom and Na\u00efvet\u00e9]\u00a0(Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House, 2019), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nawafeth\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Windows]\u00a0(Al Mutawassit Publications, 2017),\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Samat<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0[Silence]\u00a0(Al Mutawassit Publications, 2015).\u00a0He is also the author of collected essays: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qindl om hashim almafq\u016bd<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Om Hashim\u2019s Lost Lamp<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">] (Syrian League for Citizenship, 2016). Al Zoubi was awarded a 2023 creative and critical writings grant from AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture) for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empty Heavens<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, short stories about everyday Syrians in their countries of refuge. His short story \u201cTen-Armed Gods\u201d was published in The Markaz Review: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/ten-armed-gods-a-short-story-by-odai-al-zoubi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/ten-armed-gods-a-short-story-by-odai-al-zoubi\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yasminfedda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35967\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Yasmin-Fedda-Director-the-markaz-review-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Yasmin-Fedda-Director-the-markaz-review-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Yasmin-Fedda-Director-the-markaz-review-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Yasmin-Fedda-Director-the-markaz-review-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Yasmin Fedda<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Palestinian cultural practitioner, best known as a filmmaker. Her work is multi-award winning and has been widely screened and exhibited across the world at festivals, on TV, and in galleries. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayouni<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2020) is her most recent Syria-focused film about people forcibly disappeared, focusing on Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall\u2019Oglio. Yasmin is Senior Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University, London.\u00a0Yasmin Fedda\u2019s essay, with Dan Gorman, \u201cThree Nights in Free Syria\u201d was published in The Markaz Review: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/three-nights-in-free-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/three-nights-in-free-syria\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-36006\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1568046429editor_lina_sinjab.jpg-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1568046429editor_lina_sinjab.jpg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1568046429editor_lina_sinjab.jpg-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Lina Sinjab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an independent filmmaker and a BBC Middle East correspondent based in Beirut. She also contributes to several international media outlets and is a frequent contributor to Syria From Within, a Chatham House policy initiative. Sinjab has covered the Syrian uprising extensively since it began in 2011. She produced and directed the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madness in Aleppo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2019), about the siege of the city. In 2014 and 2016, Sinjab covered the Syria peace talks in Geneva as the BBC\u2019s world affairs reporter. She directed the film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suryyat <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2013), on Syrian women during the uprising. In 2013, Sinjab won the International Media Cutting Edge Award for her coverage of Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-32788\" style=\"padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Malu Halasa by Keith Pitts\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Malu-Halasa-by-Keith-Pitts-e1724404707399-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Malu Halasa<\/strong>, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review, is a Jordanian Filipina American writer and editor. Her latest edited anthologies are <em>Sum\u016bd: A New Palestinian Reader<\/em> with Jordan Elgrably (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/4653-sumud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seven Stories Press<\/a>, 2025) and <em>Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art From the Women\u2019s Protests in Iran<\/em> (Saqi Books, 2023). Previous co-edited anthologies include:<em> Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline<\/em> (Saqi Books, 2014); <em>The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design<\/em> (Chronicle Books, 2008); <em>Kaveh Golestan: Recording the Truth in Iran<\/em> (Hatje Cantz, 2005); and the short series: <em>Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images<\/em>, with Rosanne Khalaf (Saqi Books, 2004), and <em>Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations<\/em>, with Maziar Bahari, (Garnet Press, 2008). She was managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library, in Amsterdam; Editor at Large for Portal 9, in Beirut, and a founding editor of Tank Magazine, in London. She has written for The Guardian, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement. Her debut novel, <em>Mother of All Pigs<\/em> (Unnamed Press, 2017), was described as: \u201ca microcosmic portrait of \u2026 a patriarchal order in slow-motion decline\u201d by the New York Times. Her writing, edited anthologies, and exhibitions chart a changing Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on Wednesday, February 12th at 1pm EST\/ 6pm UK\/ 7pm CET for an online roundtable discussion with BBC correspondent and film director Lina Sinjab, filmmaker Yasmin Fedda, and fiction writer Odai Al Zoubi on Syria&#8217;s cultural renaissance. 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