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June 25, 2024
World Day for Refugees and UN Day for Victims of Torture
Joint Statement: Lebanon must end practices of refoulement and torture
May 18, 2024
Guantánamo, Establishing a Global Carceral Regime
By Ayah Kutmah
May 5, 2024
“A Prison, a Prisoner, and a Prison Guard:” An Exploration of Carcerality in the MENA Region
By Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid
October 31, 2023
Postponed
Understanding Prison: Carceral Culture and Human Rights in the MENA Region
July 6, 2023
On suing the Syrian government: US civil cases in a Broader Framework
By Elena Athina Mieslinger
May 26, 2023
"Horror and its Representations"
A Discussion with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh
March 27, 2023
On Translating Syria’s Prison Language
By Sumaya Tabbah
February 20, 2023
Al-Sojoun Magazine (1950-60s) & the Post-2013 'Prison Reforms' in Egypt
By Rahma Fateen
February 1, 2023
"Prisoner" and "Captive:" Defining Positionality and Conceptualizing Carceral Regimes in the Arab World
By Ayah Kutmah
January 13, 2023
Koblenz trial one year on: ‘It should have been in Damascus’
The first-ever criminal trial against officials of the Syrian regime was in no way perfect – but it was still a momentous achievement.
October 31, 2022
Les Prisons Secrètes au Moyen-Orient: Une Violence Non Répertoriée
MENA Prison Forum Collaboration with For2Med
August 23, 2022
Statement by MENA Prison Forum
The MENA Prison Forum Calls Upon States to Exercise All Diplomatic and Political Tools Available to Press Israel to Annul the Forcible Closure of Seven Palestinian Civil Society Organizations
July 15, 2022
Prisons Narratives as Tapestry
The Premiere of “Palmyra, the Torturers” in Napoli
May 20, 2022
Ghost Hunting
Discussion with director Raed Andoni and producer Nicolas Wadimoff, moderated by Stella Peisch
April 28, 2022
Abu Ghraib in the Art of Ayad Alkadhi
Remembering the Prisoner Abuse Photos Eighteen Years After Their Release
April 25, 2022
Abolish Prisons or End Impunity?
A Dialectic in Times of Transitional (and Lack of) Justice
January 14, 2022
Al-Khatib Trial
A Legacy to Build
December 18, 2021
Global Legal Community Stands in Solidarity with Egyptian Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer
November 19, 2021
Global Prisons and Prison Life
Online-Workshop with Students from Universities in Geneva, Marburg and Cologne
October 31, 2021
Alaa Abdel Fattah
The Politics of Prison Writings
October 21, 2021
MPF Collections
Accessible and Interactive Prisons-related Archives
October 13, 2021
Maspero Massacre
A Reading of Coptic Theology in Egyptian Prisons
October 4, 2021
Alaa Al-Siddiq
The Perils of Crossing Borders
September 27, 2021
Once upon a Cell
Fragments of Detention
September 17, 2021
Lebanese Prisons
A Syrian, Stateless, and Senseless Detention
September 10, 2021
Breaking Gilboa
An Indigenous Return
September 3, 2021
Iranian Prisons Videos
Leaking the Past
August 30, 2021
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
August 27, 2021
The Algerian-Moroccan Tension
Prisons as a Lens of Foreign Policy
August 20, 2021
Al-Bashir’s Trial
A Sudanese Lesson to the ICC
August 13, 2021
Egypt’s Academic Targets
Airports as Sites of Arrest
June 3, 2021
Highlighting Prison-Focused Initiatives
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms’ “Detainees’ Registry”
February 5, 2021
Making Prisons Visible
The Work of the MENA Prison Forum
November 21, 2020
Solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
An Open Letter to Ambassadors and Diplomats
August 8, 2020
The Discovery of Mass Graves in Libya
Hidden Layers of Incarceration
August 7, 2020
Arrest of TikTok Girls in Egypt for Violating "Family Values"
Intersections of Religion, Gender and Class
August 4, 2020
When Death Becomes A Wish...
Testimonies from Sednaya Prison during Revolution
March 24, 2020
Call for urgent action around detention in MENA region amid COVID-19
COVID-19: Urgent measures must be taken by MENA governments to protect the prison population