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Syria's Architecture of Repression and Death

26 March - 27 September 2026

Youssef Fahdeh, a Story from Baalbeck Studios

Curated by Ayman Nahle

9 February - 1 March 2026

Commemoration of the Fifth Anniversary of Lokman Slim’s Assassination

7 February - 3 March 2026

Understanding Prison [6]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

8 December 2025

From Archive to Story… Documentation in Journalistic Work

Training Workshop with Hassan Abbas

15 - 16 & 22 - 23 November 2025

Prison Matters: Towards Justice in Syria [4]

Narratives from Prisons and Detention Centers Before and After Liberation: A Conversation with Firas Haj Yheia

30 October 2025

The Afterlife of Images: Archives and Narratives

Training Workshop with Ayman Nahle

9 - 12 October 2025

Understanding Prison [5]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

The Role of Written Archives in Preserving and Critiquing the Memory of War

Training Workshop with Abbas Hadla

3 - 5 September 2025

Tadmor - Palmyra

Screening and Debate

Prison Matters: Towards Justice in Syria [3]

Narratives from Prisons and Detention Centers Before and After Liberation: A Conversation with Waleed Al-Madani

The Murder Of Middle East Correspondent Robert Pfeffer, Beirut 1979

Investigating a Political Assassination

Launch Of MANARA

A National Coalition for Victims of Political Assassinations

Prison Matters: Towards Justice in Syria [2]

Transitional Justice and the Search for Missing Persons in Syria: A Conversation with Ahmad Helmi

Understanding Prison [4]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

Prison Matters: Towards Justice in Syria [1]

The Prison before and after the Years of Exile: A Conversation with Anwar Al-Bunni

Tadmor - Palmyra

Screening and Debate

Massaker - Massacre

Screening and Debate

50 Years Of Déjà Vu

13 April - 13 June 2025

Understanding Prison [3]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

Understanding Prison [2]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

25 February 2025

Tadmor - Palmyra

Screening and Debate

19 February 2025

Justice As A Pillar Of Sovereignty

Commemoration of the Fourth Anniversary of Lokman Slim’s Assassination

2 February 2025

Voices, Communities, And Digital Archives

Producing Knowledge in and of the Diasporic Present

27 - 29 January 2025

Understanding Prison [1]

MENA Prison Forum in Berlin

27 November 2024

Youssef Fahdeh, A Story From Baalbeck Studios

UMAM D&R at Archival Assembly #3

17 - 29 September 2024

Side Event of the Human Rights Council

Ensuring the Preservation of and Access to the Records of Temporary International Criminal Courts and Investigative Mechanisms

12 September 2024

A Prison, A Prisoner, And A Prison Guard

A Talk with Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid

Justice for Lebanon

The Lebanese Judiciary as Misused and Misguided

Re-Launch of UMAM Biblio

“Baalbeck Studios” in The Hangar

7 June - 30 July 2024

Justice for Lebanon, Justice for Lokman

Commemoration of the Third Anniversary of Lokman Slim’s Assassination

3 February 2024

Shades of Justice?

Syrian Diaspora, Anti-Normalization Struggle, and Lessons from Koblenz

11 December 2023

Lebanon Unsettled | Launch Event

Archiving the October 2019 Uprising

Branch 251: A Podcast to Read

A Discussion with Fritz Streiff and Salam Kawakibi

Horror and its Representation

A Discussion with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh

Justice Even If The Heavens Fall

Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of Lokman Slim’s Assassination

3 - 5 February 2023

Relooking at the Past through Archives and Art

A Talk with Alfred Tarazi and Alexis Guillier

21 January 2023

'Prison Reform' in the MENA Region

What It Is, How It Is Implemented, and Why

8 December 2022

The Psychological & Social Effects of Imprisonment

A Conversation with Syrian Experts

27 October 2022

Hymne À L'Amour

An Installation by Alfred Tarazi

23 Octobre 2022 - 31 December 2023

Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Light of Threats and Killings committed by Non-State Actors

Lessons Learned from Colombia and Lebanon

The MENA Prison Forum at the Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival

Bahrain's Carceral System

A Conversation with Abbass Al-Morshid

22 September 2022

Narrating Prisons from Lebanon

A Conversation with Ali Abou Dehn

1 September 2022

Archive of the Unknown

Baalbeck Studios Beirut

Peripheral Vision 2022

With Cimatheque, UMAM D&R, NAIAS, and Archipelago Network

Tattooing and Identity in Tunisian Prisons

A conversation with Karim Abdessalem and Mohamed Kamal Elhouki

Justice for Lebanon

July 17 - World Day for International Justice

Zindali... Songs from Tunisian Prisons

A conversation with Karim Abdessalem and Mohamed Kamel Elhouki

Accountability and Prison Reform in Sudan

A conversation with Dr. Farouk Mohamed Ibrahim & Madani Abbas Madani

Prisons and Transitional Justice in Sudan

A Conversation with Wini Omer and Magdi El Na’im

Memory Of A Paper City

An Exhibition by Alfred Tarazi

10 June 2022 - 15 July 2023

Screening & Discussion with Raed Andoni, Nicolas Wadimoff, moderated by Stella Peisch

Exposing State Violence in Syria

A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud

Film Screenings

25 - 27 April 2022

The Impossible Stage | Official Release

A Conversation with the Series' Creators

Archives and Imaginaries

Archives and Imaginaries

24 - 26 March 2022

Safe Havens for Human Rights Archives at Risk in the MENA Region

Cameras versus Guns in Iraq

A Conversation with Ali Arkady

A Conversation with the Podcast Production Team

17 February 2022

My Devilish Friend Said...

Tribute to Lokman Slim

3 February - 1 May 2022

First Anniversary of Lokman Slim's Assassination

3 February 2022

Branch 251 | A Historic Trial

A Conversation with Fritz Streiff & Amer Matar

27 January 2022

In Search of Tripoli's Cinema Culture and Practices

11 December 2021 - 30 April 2022

Syrian Gulag: Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020

A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör & Jaber Baker

9 December 2021

Prisons in Iraq: Between the Past and Present

State- and Militia-Run Prisons, from Torture to Killings

27 - 28 November 2021

Back to the Fold

A Conversation with Hassan Sahily

18 November 2021

A Conversation with Ahmad Abdul-Halim & Dima Daly

21 October 2021

Prisonbirds’ Dictionary

A Conversation with Ahmad Said

30 September 2021

How Moroccan Cinema Depicts the Experience of Political Detention

A Conversation with Ahmad Boughaba

Horror and its Representation

A Conversation with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, moderated by Ziad Majed

The Impossible Stage

Launch of the Podcast Series & Talk with the Team

Who investigates the Crime?

Investigative Journalism vs Judicial Investigations

Prison, Writing, and Questions of Genre

A Conversation with Dr. Shareah Taleghani

The Role of Forensics in Unveiling

Hate Speech and Incitement

A Prelude to Political Crimes?

Prisons and Detention in Iraq

A Conversation with Dr. Vera Mironova

The Anatomy of Political Crimes in Lebanon

A Criminal Pattern

Autumn Is A Second Spring

Photos by Marwan Tahtah

30 November 2020 - 31 July 2021

State Force, Prison and Torture

The Afterlives of Political Imprisonment in the MENA

11 - 13 November 2020

2020 Global Meeting

Building Virtual Communities for Human Rights

October 19 - 23, 2020

“Asylum” versus “Migration”

Time for a Painful Re-Evaluation in Lebanon?

10 October 2020

Syrian Prisons Between Memory and Geography

1 - 2 November 2019

In Search of Tripoli's Cinema Culture and Practices

18 - 27 October 2019

More of the Same?

17 October 2019

(Re)Constructed Uncertainties

27 September 2019

Haret Hreik - Mleeta

(Re)Constructed Uncertainties

26 September - 24 October 2019

Prisons in North Africa

Blurring Spatial and Temporal Boundaries

6 - 8 September 2019

Lebanese Initiative Against Discrimination and Racism

Unpacking the Debate

About Temporary vs. Permanent Construction

A choreography in the darkness

17 - 26 May 2019

Egyptian Prisons

Culture and Practices

Launch of UMAM Biblio

Directory of UMAM Books, Periodicals, and Collections

Human Rights Film Festival

...And Lebanese

In Praise of Lebanese Fusion

13 December 2018 - 31 March 2019

Lebanon 2018 - 2019

Reviewing a Year of Asylum and Forecasting Priorities for the Upcoming Year

15 December 2018

Toward a MENA Prison Forum

28 - 30 November 2018

11 November & 14 - 16 December 2018

Lebanon Versus Its Refugees

One 'Return' Only?

22 September 2018

Lebanon 1920 - 2020

How Might We Commemorate This Centennial?

12 September - 4 November 2018

Promoting Straight Talk

Between Lebanese, Palestinians & Syrians

The Sudden Calamity of Life

To a Syrian Prisoner of Conscience

Lebanon 2017 - 2018

Reviewing a Year of Asylum and Forecasting Priorities for the Upcoming Year

16 December 2017

A Slip of the Lebanese Memory

Refugee Camps vs. Terrorist Headquarters

On Syrian Asylum

And Renewed Inter-Lebanese Feuding

What's Still "Palestinian" in the Palestinian Refugee Camps?

Revisiting Ain el-Hilweh

Lebanon's Refugee Crisis

Through the Sectarian Lens

March 10 - 12, 2017

Documenting Darkness

Revisiting the Syrian Carceral Issue

13 - 14 December 2016

Revisiting Past Attempts to End Lebanon's Conflicts

October 22, 2016

70 Years of Military Court in Lebanon

Until Further Notice...

Snapshot's of Lebanon's Military Court

24 February 2016

Documentation as a Way for Recovering Syria

Syrian Documentation Efforts and their Perspectives

4 - 5 December 2015

Placing "Terrorism" on Trial

Lebanon's Courts of Exception and the Risks of "Exceptional Justice"

States of Transition in MENA

Emerging Memory Challenges in Conflict and Post-Conflict Countries

November 24 - 25, 2014

Martial Justice for All?

Lebanon's Military Court: A "State of Martial Law" Within a "State of Law"

1 November 2014

Baalbeck Studios

7 June - 31 August 2014

The Plight of Political Detainees in Syria Through Their Portraits

Lebanese Political Prisoners in Syrian Prisons

Brainstorming the Associated Legal and Paralegal Challenges

October 19, 2013

La Châtelaine du Liban

13 September 2013

The German Chair

The Passionate of Darkness

Carceral Experiences in Syria's Prisons

11 October 2012

It's Happening Now...

Hasn't 'Never Again' Already Been Said?

29 June - 29 July 2012

The Bus Takes The Podium

Voyages into the Memory of Lebanon and Its People

The Last Days of the Carlton

11 October – 19 December 2011

And Its Replicas...

8 April - 1 May 2011

Books from the Battlefield

Featuring the War's Literature

20 April - 9 May 2010

In a Sea of Oblivion

13 April - 9 May 2010

The «War» through its Memorials

Photo Exhibition in Progress

12 - 29 June 2009

The War through its Memorials

30 - 31 May 2009

How to « Pay » For It?

Material and Moral Reparations

25 - 26 April 2009

Lest the Past Escape Us...

Archiving and Documentation

7 - 8 February 2009

Truth-Seeking Mechanisms

Lebanon's War-Loaded Memory

29 - 30 November 2008

A War Without Crimes?

Amnesties and Prosecutions

18 - 19 October 2008

A War Without Crimes?

17 October 2008

Confronting Memories

Explorations in Film

9 October 2008 - 10 December 2010

The Story Beneath Us...

Forensics and Mass Graves

12 - 13 July 2008

And They Never Came Back...

Enforced Disappearances in Lebanon

21 - 22 June 2008

Studio Photography in the Style of Mathesie & Al-Marj

18 June - 9 July 2008

And So The War Ended...

12 - 13 April 2008

Photo Exhibition in Progress

10 April 2008 - 30 June 2010

What Is to Be Done?

Lebanon's War-Loaded Memory

Photographies d’une guerre sans images

4 - 20 April 2008

Collecting «Dahiyeh»

Exhibition & Film Screenings

24 May - 16 June 2007

Crime & Punishment

27 April - 14 May 2006

6 - 16 December 2006

A Journey of Assumptions and Conclusions

22 March - 9 April 2006

Civil Violence & War Memories

Here and Elsewhere

16 September - 1 October 2005