Memory and Justice
  • Intro
  • Topics
    • Case study: Argentina
    • Nazi crimes: legal proceedings and the lack thereof in Germany
    • Memory and the Courtroom
    • From Nuremberg to The Hague and the Pinochet effect
    • Former Yugoslavia
    • Colonial crimes and their consequences
    • Trauma and memory. Do truth and justice heal?
    • Regarding the Pain of Others
    • The Congo Tribunal
    • The Situation in Syria and Iraq
  • Program
  • Speakers
  • Exhibition
  • Reservation
  • Contact
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The Situation in Syria and Iraq

The last panel will address a more current issue. While previous panels focused on how past crimes are being addressed through artistic, legal or social means, we will now turn to the ongoing crimes against humanity being committed in Syria and Iraq, a topic that has become even more close to Europe with the arrival of refugees from this region.
Together with exiled writer Rosa Yassin Hassan and human rights activist and lawyer Anwar al-Bounni, we want to discuss what can be gained by “addressing” or “exposing” a war that is still ongoing and what potential approaches could be pursued.

The Berlin-based Iraqi writer Najem Wali will then read some of his work (Baghdad Marlboro) in which he addresses not only the crimes under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, but also the reactions of the Western military powers to the Kuwait invasion in 1991 and the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US-led military coalition.
Martin Glasenapp, formerly Middle East advisor at the NGO Medico International will discuss what the conflict in the Middle East means for Germany. The aim is to discuss possible (foreign policy or even military) responses from Germany and the international community to crimes such as those happening in Syria or Iraq.

Further reading:

 

Rosa Yassin Hassan: Negative, 2008

Rosa Yassin Hassan: Guardians of the Air, 2009

Najem Wali: Bagdad Marlboro, Munich 2014

Najem Wali: Bagdad – Erinnerungen an eine Weltstadt, Munich 2015

Samar Yazbek: Schrei nach Freiheit. Bericht aus dem Inneren der syrischen Revolution. Zurich 2012

Samar Yazbek: Die gestohlene Revolution. Reise in mein zerstörtes Syrien, Munich 2015

Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel: The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, Cambridge 2005

Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris: Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story, New York 2008

Navid Kermani: Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa, Berlin 2016

Navid Kermani: Ausnahmezustand: Reisen in eine beunruhigte Welt, Berlin 2013

Tariq Ali: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, London 2004

Charles Glass: Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe, London 2016

 

Weblinks:

 

Interview with Scott Horton on the blog antiwar.com, 2007

http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_28_horton.mp3

 

Films:

SilveredWater, Director: Ossama Mohammed/Wiam Simav Bedirxan, France/Syria2014

Queens of Syria, Director: Yasmin Fedda, 2014

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