Amer Matar

director
Prisons Museum, ISIS Prisons Museum
Amer Matar, managing director Prisons Museum
Photo credit / Image credit
Foto: IPM

Amer Matar is the managing director of the Prisons Museum in Berlin. He is a Syrian journalist and documentary filmmaker, living in Berlin since 2012.

 

Sessions

Crimes as 3D tours. How a group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers demand accountability

Dagmar Hovestadt, Amer Matar

Prisons as a tool of repression have a long and terrible history in Syria. Can digital technology create a discourse of accountability and closure? A group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers believe it can by exposing the crimes in a virtual museum, for ISIS prisons and for regime prisons.
Activism
Democracy
Law
Civil Society
Education & Learning
Lightning Box 1
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Talk
English
Conference