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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
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 27, 2022
The Psychological & Social Effects of Imprisonment
A Conversation with Syrian Experts
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 and Mohamed Kamal Elhouki
JUL 7, 2022
Al-Zindali... Songs from Tunisian Prisons
A conversation with Karim Abdessalem and 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