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JUL 18, 2024
"A Prison, a Prisoner, and a Prison Guard"
A Talk with Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid
DEC 11, 2023
Shades of Justice?
Syrian Diaspora, Anti-Normalization Struggle, and Lessons from Koblenz
NOV 4, 2023
Bridging the Gap
A Decade of Human Rights in MENA: Navigating Pathways and Hurdles to Collaborations within Academia
NOV 30 - DEC 2, 2023
POSTPONED
Understanding Prison: Carceral Culture and Human Rights in the MENA Region
SEP 21, 2023
Finding Meaning in the Mihan
The State and the Islamists in the 20th Century in Egypt
JUL 25, 2023
Who owns the Right to the Body?
A conversation with Ahmad Abdul-Halim
JUL 7, 2023
L'expérience carcérale en Palestine
Dans le cadre de « Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde »
JUN 8, 2023
Branch 251: A Podcast to Read
A Discussion with Fritz Streiff and Salam Kawakibi
JUN 1, 2023
The Psychological & Social Effects of Imprisonment
A Conversation with Syrian Experts | Part II
MAY 11, 2023
Seeking Justice: Mzaik v. Syria
& The Free Syria's Disappeared Coalition
MAY 4, 2023
'Prison Reform' in the MENA: The 'Rule of Law' Agenda
A Conversation with Kylee DiGregorio & Jad Yateem
APRIL 6, 2023
Horror and its Representation
A Discussion with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh
JAN 29, 2023
Those Who Said No
Screening & Discussion with Nima Sarvestani, Iraj Mesdaghi & Anwar Al-Bunni, moderated by Jad Yateem
DEC 15, 2022
Carceral Theology: Studies on Egypt & Guantanamo Bay
A Conversation with Walaa Quisay & Asim Qureshi
DEC 8, 2022
'Prison Reform' in the MENA: Theories and Histories
A Conversation with Kylee DiGregorio & Jad Yateem
DEC 7, 2022
La Mémoire Noire
Screening and Discussion with Fathi Ben Haj Yehia, Hichem Ben Ammar & Karim Abdessalem
DEC 3, 2022
MPF Exchange Day
Collaborative Considering MENA Prisons from Europe
NOV 16, 2022
Branch 251: The Podcast
A Conversation with Fritz Streiff
NOV 10, 2022
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
A Conversation with Lisa Hajjar
OCT 31, 2022
Tadmor (Palmyra)
Screening & Discussion with Salam Kawakibi
OCT 27, 2022
The Psychological & Social Effects of Imprisonment
A Conversation with Syrian Experts | Part 1
OCT 12-14, 2022
Prisons Beyond Punishment
Exploring Political Technologies of Confinement
OCT 12, 2022
Tadmor (Palmyra)
Screening & Discussion with Ali Abou Dehen
OCT 4, 2022
The First Gate
The MENA Prison Forum at Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival
SEP 22, 2022
Bahrain’s Carceral System
A Conversation with Abbass Al-Morshid
SEP 1, 2022
Narrating Prisons from Lebanon
A Conversation with Ali Abou Dehen
JUL 21, 2022
Tattooing and Identity in Tunisian Prisons
A conversation with Karim Abdessalem
JUL 7, 2022
Al-Zindali... Songs from Tunisian Prisons
A conversation with Karim Abdessalem & Mohamed Kamal Elhouki
JUN 23, 2022
Accountability and Prison Reform in Sudan
A conversation with Dr. Farouk Ibrahim & Madani Abbas Madani
MAY 26, 2022
Prisons and Transitional Justice in Sudan
A Conversation with Wini Omer and Magdi El Na’im
MAY 17, 2022
Ghost Hunting
Screening & Discussion with director Raed Andoni and producer Nicolas Wadimoff, moderated by Stella Peisch
MAY 12, 2022
Exposing State Violence in Syria
A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör and Annsar Shahhoud
MAR 31, 2022
The Impossible Stage | Official Release
A Conversation with the Series' Creators
MAR 17, 2022
Cameras versus Guns in Iraq
A Conversation with Ali Arkady
FEB 17, 2022
The Clerk
A Conversation with the Podcast Production Team
JAN 27, 2022
Branch 251 | Syrian Atrocity Crimes on Trial
A Conversation with Fritz Streiff & Amer Matar
DEC 9, 2021
Syrian Gulag: Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020
A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör & Jaber Baker
NOV 27-28, 2021
Prisons in Iraq: Between the Past and Present
State- and Militia-Run Prisons, from Torture to Killings
NOV 18, 2021
Back to the Fold
A Conversation with Hassan Sahily
NOV 4, 2021
Tried but not Tested
A Conversation with Saif al-Islam Eid
OCT 21, 2021
Swaying Bodies
A Conversation with Ahmad Abdul-Halim & Dima Daly
SEP 30, 2021
Prisonbirds’ Dictionary
A Conversation with Ahmad Said
JUN 30, 2021
How Moroccan Cinema Depicts the Experience of Political Detention
A Conversation with Ahmed Boughaba
JUN 11, 2021
Horror and its Representation
A Conversation with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh and Ziad Majed
MAY 31, 2021
The Impossible Stage | Episode [1]
Launch of the Podcast Series & Talk with the Team
APR 29, 2021
Prison, Writing, and Questions of Genre
A Conversation with Dr. Shareah Taleghani
MAR 17, 2021
Prisons and Detention in Iraq
A Conversation with Dr. Vera Mironova
NOV 11-13, 2020
State Force, Prison and Torture
The Afterlives of Political Imprisonment in the MENA
NOV 1-2, 2019
Syrian Prisons Between Memory and Geography
An Update
SEP 6-8, 2019
Prisons in North Africa
Blurring Spatial and Temporal Boundaries
MAY 2-3, 2019
Egyptian Prisons
Culture and Practices
NOV 28-30, 2018
Toward a MENA Prison Forum