OBLIVION: Forced Disappearance, Memory, Absence, and Political Erasure

A film screening series examining forced disappearance as a political strategy across the SWANA region, featuring documentary and essay films centered on testimony, memory, and visual absence as counterpoints to state violence. The program includes works by Jihan El-Tahri (Algeria), Ghassan Halwani (Lebanon), Habiba Djahnine (Algeria), Argyro Nicolaou (Cyprus), Muhannad Lamin (Libya), and Akram Zaatari (Lebanon). Curated by Laila Sharif and co-presented by ArteEast and BAM, with an in-person screening and post-screening discussion at BAM on June 24.