DNL #12: TERROR FEEDS. Keynote with Abdalaziz Alhamza, Aaron Y. Zelin, Heba Y. Amin
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 18/12/2017

Disruption Network Lab 
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin. 

Berlin, November 24 - 25, 2017
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine
12th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: http://www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds/
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Guest Curator: Mauro Mondello
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Claudia Dorfmüller, Kim Voss

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
Photo thumbnail: Maria Silvano

November 25, 2017
20.00-21.30 ·  KEYNOTE
FRACTURED LANDS: CONFRONTING THE ISLAMIC STATE

Abdalaziz Alhamza /Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently -RBSS (Co-founder, Media Activist, SY/DE); Aaron Y. Zelin (Founder of Jihadology.net and JihadPod, Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute, US). Moderated by Heba Y. Amin (Visual Artist, Researcher and Lecturer, EGY/DE).

The city of Raqqa for a long time marked the symbolic path followed by the Islamic State’s rule and showed Islamic State not as a rigid organization, but as an elaborate maze of strategies, contexts and backgrounds, united under the Caliphate utopia. Abdalaziz Alhamza, Syrian activist and co-founder of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently”, a group that documented the daily life in the “Islamic Caliphate”, will focus on his experience on the field, revealing the crimes of the terror regime and reporting about daily experiences under ISIS's control of the city. To better understand the work of ISIS in the contexts of specific geographical and political areas, Aaron Y. Zelin will focus on the general strategy of developing an idea of global jihad that ISIS has tried to apply since 2014, going from having almost no territorial control to the total occupation of some zones, presenting some specific cases based on territorial analysis. Furthermore, he will report on ISIS's expansion in Libya, Syria and Yemen to investigate why they acquired power in some areas and not others.