Past Public Programs

Create your very own imaginary friend and bring him to life through an upcycling workshop with Junk Munkez.

Join us for a workshop led by environmental engineer Ziad Abi Chaker to learn a simple method for composting your organic waste at home.

A screening of Sarah Francis' Birds of September, in partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.

The Arab Center for Architecture (ACA) and the International Writers’ House in Beirut (Beyt el Kottab) invite the architect Jad Tabet and the novelist Elias Khoury to discuss Beirut as a war-torn city.

When Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Naous learns of her father's financial difficulties, she returns to her homeland to document this period in her family's life.

The Society of False Witnesses invites witnesses from the fields of life, construction, geotechnical engineering, hydrology, linguistics, and spatial theory to present a tour of the Normandy landfill.

Led by political historian Nadia Bou Ali, this reading group will look at the figure of Mahdi Amel and the "colonial mode of production”: structure, temporality, and class struggle.

Screening of A Fire (1961,dir. Ebrahim Golestan) and Unearthing Disaster I (2013, dir. Angela Anderson and Angela Melitopoulos), with an introduction by Angela Anderson, Angela Melitopoulos, and Ashkan Sepahvand.

A presentation and discussion of the publication Elements for a World: WATER, followed by a panel discussion with architect Adib Dada, water specialist Nadim Farajalla, Beirut Syndrome (Kareem Chehayeb and Sarah Shmaitilly), and artist Jessika Khazrik.

A film screening curated by writer and curator Rasha Salti, in conjunction with the exhibition Let's Talk About the Weather.