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HISTORY
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WHO WE ARE
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DONORS AND PARTNERS
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IN THE MEDIA
INITIATIVES
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EVENTS
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PUBLICATIONS
UMAM Biblio
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Memory At Work
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MENA Prison Forum
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Tadmor
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Lokman Slim Foundation
The Hangar
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UMAM by the Sea
EVENTS
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Film Screening
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Exhibition
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Installation
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Talk
The Murder of Middle East Correspondent Robert Pfeffer, Beirut 1979
Investigating a Political Assassination
17 July 2025 | 6 PM
Launch of MANARA
A National Coalition for Victims of Political Assassinations
10 July 2025 | 3 PM
Understanding Prison [4]
MENA Prison Forum in Berlin
18 June 2025 | 7 PM
50 Years Of Déjà Vu
1975 - 2025
13 April - 30 Juni 2025 | 3 PM
Tadmor - Palmyra
Screening and Debate
25 April 2025 | 7 PM
Massaker - Massacre
Screening and Debate
16 April 2025 | 6:30 PM
Understanding Prison [3]
MENA Prison Forum in Berlin
3 April 2025 | 7 PM
Understanding Prison [2]
MENA Prison Forum in Berlin
25 February 2025 | 7 PM
Tadmor - Palmyra
Screening and Debate
19 February 2025 | 7 PM
Justice as a Pillar for Sovereignty
Commemoration of the Fourth Anniversary of Lokman Slim’s Assassination
2 February 2025 | 4 PM
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 | 7 PM
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
18 July 2024 | 7 PM
Justice for Lebanon
The Lebanese Judiciary as Misused and Misguided
17 July 2024 | 6 PM
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 | 3 - 6 PM
Shades of Justice?
Syrian Diaspora, Anti-Normalization Struggle, and Lessons from Koblenz
11 December 2023 | 6 - 8 PM (German time)
Lebanon Unsettled | Launch Event
Archiving the October 2019 Uprising
6 July 2023 | 7 PM
Branch 251: A Podcast to Read
A Discussion with Fritz Streiff and Salam Kawakibi
8 June 2023
Horror and its Representation
A Discussion with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh
6 April 2023 | 7 PM
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
Hymne à l'Amour
An Installation by Alfred Tarazi
Open on Saturdays between 3 and 7 PM or by appointment
Memory of a Paper City
An Installation by Alfred Tarazi
10 June 2022 - 15 July 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
Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Light of Threats and Killings committed by Non-State Actors
Lessons Learned from Colombia and Lebanon
5 October 2022
The MENA Prison Forum at the Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival
4 October 2022
Bahrain's Carceral System
A Conversation with Abbass Al-Morshid
22 September 2022
Narrating Prisons from Lebanon
A Conversation with Ali Abou Dehen
1 September 2022
Archive of the Unknown
Baalbeck Studios Beirut
13 August 2022
Peripheral Vision 2022
With Cimatheque, UMAM D&R, NAIAS, and Archipelago Network
30 July 2022 | 6 PM
Tattooing and Identity in Tunisian Prisons
A conversation with Karim Abdessalem and Mohamed Kamal Elhouki
21 July 2022
Justice for Lebanon
July 17 - World Day for International Justice
17 July 2022 | 6 PM
Zindali... Songs from Tunisian Prisons
A conversation with Karim Abdessalem and Mohamed Kamel Elhouki
7 July 2022
Accountability and Prison Reform in Sudan
A conversation with Dr. Farouk Mohamed Ibrahim & Madani Abbas Madani
23 June 2022
Prisons and Transitional Justice in Sudan
A Conversation with Wini Omer and Magdi El Na’im
26 May 2022
Ghost Hunting
Screening & Discussion with Raed Andoni, Nicolas Wadimoff, moderated by Stella Peisch
17 May 2022
Exposing State Violence in Syria
A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud
12 May 2022
My Devilish Friend Said...
Tribute to Lokman Slim
3 February - 1 May 2022 | Mondays - Fridays, 11 AM - 6 PM
TripoliScope
In Search of Tripoli's Cinema Culture and Practices
11 December 2021 - 30 April 2022 | Saturdays & Sundays, 12 PM - 6 PM
TripoliScope
Film Screenings
25 - 27 April 2022
The Impossible Stage | Official Release
A Conversation with the Series' Creators
31 March 2022
The Whole Life
Archives and Imaginaries
26 March 2022
The Whole Life
Archives and Imaginaries
24 - 26 March 2022
Cameras versus Guns in Iraq
A Conversation with Ali Arkady
17 March 2022
The Clerk
A Conversation with the Podcast Production Team
February 17, 2022
First Anniversary of Lokman Slim's Assassination
Commemoration
3 February 2022 | 3 PM
Branch 251 | A Historic Trial
A Conversation with Fritz Streiff & Amer Matar
27 January 2022
Syrian Gulag: Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020
A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör & Jaber Baker
9 December 2021
Back to the Fold
A Conversation with Hassan Sahily
18 November 2021
Swaying Bodies
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 Ahmed Boughaba
30 June 2021
Horror and its Representation
A Conversation with Yassin Al Haj Saleh, moderated by Ziad Majed
11 June 2021
The Impossible Stage
Launch of the Podcast Series & Talk with the Team
31 May 2021
Who investigates the Crime?
Investigative Journalism vs Judicial Investigations
11 May 2021
Prison, Writing, and Questions of Genre
A Conversation with Dr. Shareah Taleghani
29 April 2021
Crime Scene
The Role of Forensics in Unveiling
27 April 2021
Hate Speech and Incitement
A Prelude to Political Crimes?
8 April 2021
Prisons and Detention in Iraq
A Conversation with Dr. Vera Mironova
17 March 2021
The Anatomy of Political Crimes in Lebanon
A Criminal Pattern
4 March 2021
Autumn Is A Second Spring
Photos by Marwan Tahtah
November 13, 2020 - July 31, 2021
State Force, Prison and Torture
The Afterlives of Political Imprisonment in the MENA
November 11 - 13, 2020
TripoliScope
In Search of Tripoli's Cinema Culture and Practices
18 - 27 October 2019
Lebanon
More of the Same?
17 October 2019
Artist Talk
(Re)Constructed Uncertainties
September 27, 2019
Haret Hreik - Mleeta
(Re)Constructed Uncertainties
September 26 - Oct 24, 2019
Launch Event
Lebanese Initiative Against Discrimination and Racism
August 22, 2019
Toyota 89
A choreography in the darkness
May 17 - 26, 2019
Launch of UMAM Biblio
Directory of UMAM Books, Periodicals, and Collections
April 16, 2019
...And Lebanese
In Praise of Lebanese Fusion
December 13, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Untitled
November 11 & December 14 - 16, 2018
Lebanon 1920 - 2020
How Might We Commemorate This Centennial?
September 12 - November 4, 2018
Karama Beirut
Human Rights Film Festival
2018 & 2019
Promoting Straight Talk
Between Lebanese, Palestinians & Syrians
May 12, 2018
The Sudden Calamity of Life
To a Syrian Prisoner of Conscience
March 24, 2018
A Slip of the Lebanese Memory
Refugee Camps vs. Terrorist Headquarters
August 24, 2017
What's Still "Palestinian" in the Palestinian Refugee Camps?
Revisiting Ain el-Hilweh
May 23, 2017
The New Normal
March 10 - 12, 2017
Until Further Notice...
Snapshot's of Lebanon's Military Court
February 24, 2016
Baalbeck Studios
@ The Hangar
June 7 - August 31, 2014
Damascus Road
The Plight of Political Detainees in Syria Through Their Portraits
December 2013
La Châtelaine du Liban
September 13, 2013
The German Chair
May 2013
The Passionate of Darkness
Carceral Experiences in Syria's Prisons
October 11, 2012
It's Happening Now...
Hasn't 'Never Again' Already Been Said?
June 29 - July 29, 2012
The Bus Takes The Podium
Voyages into the Memory of Lebanon and Its People
April 12, 2012
No Vacancy
The Last Days of the Carlton
October 11 – December 19, 2011
A Bus...
And Its Replicas...
April 8 - May 1, 2011
Books from the Battlefield
Featuring the War's Literature
April 20 - May 9, 2010
Missing
In a Sea of Oblivion
April 13 - May 9, 2010
The «War» through its Memorials
Photo Exhibition in Progress
June 12 - 29, 2009
The War through its Memorials
May 30 - 31, 2009
How to « Pay » For It?
Material and Moral Reparations
April 25 - 26, 2009
Lest the Past Escape Us...
Archiving and Documentation
February 7 - 8, 2009
Truth-Seeking Mechanisms
Lebanon's War-Loaded Memory
November 29 - 30, 2008
A War Without Crimes?
Amnesties and Prosecutions
October 18 - 19, 2008
A War Without Crimes?
17 October 2008
Confronting Memories
Explorations in Film
October 2008 - 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
Smile Please!
Studio Photography in the Style of Mathesie & Al-Marj
18 June - 9 July 2008
And So The War Ended...
12 - 13 April 2008
What Is to Be Done?
Lebanon's War-Loaded Memory
10 April 2008
Missing…
Photo Exhibition in Progress
2008 - 2010
Algérie
Photographies d’une guerre sans images
4 - 20 April 2008
Collecting «Dahiyeh»
Exhibition & Film Screenings
24 May - 16 June 2007
Catastrophe
6 - 16 December 2006
Srebrenica
Crime & Punishment
27 April - 14 May 2006
Operation 9
A Journey of Assumptions and Conclusions
22 March - 9 April 2006
Civil Violence & War Memories
Here and Elsewhere
16 September - 1 October 2005
