Beirut Shifting Grounds

29/12/2025

Join us for our book launch and panel discussion on January 8 at 6 pm, at . The event will feature a short presentation by Carla Aramouny and Sandra Frem, followed by a moderated conversation with the publisher .publishers . Stay to explore the exhibition panels and browse signed copies of the book. .

Books will be available for sale at a special price.

10/11/2021

The second Open Forum “Living Together, Healing together” will be held on November 16th 2021 12:00-2:00 pm EST / 7:00-9:00 pm Beirut time ( link in bio)
This Forum brings together a regionally diverse panel, to reflect over the complex thematics of healing.
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Garine Boghossian (Architect / Urbanist)
Meriem Chabani (Architect / New South)
Sarri El Faitouri (Architect, Visual Artist / Tajarrod Architecture and Art Foundation)
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In conversation with Ala Tannir (Architect / Curator)
With an introduction by the Open Forum and Wael Al Awar@waiwaidesign (Curator of the UAE Pavilion, recipient of the Golden Lion)
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Garine Boghossian .boghossian is an architect, urbanist and researcher based in New York.
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Meriem Chabani .chabani is an architect, urban planner and founding partner at New South
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Sarri El Faitouri is a 25 years old conceptual architect, artist, curator, and cultural activist based in Benghazi, Libya, and the founder of TAJARROD Architecture and Art Foundation.
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Ala Tannir .tannir is an independent architect and curator from Beirut, and part of the curatorial team and Managing Editor of Publications for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), “How will we live together?”.
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-- more details on the panelists and moderator can be found on
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The event is hosted by the Department of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut
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Event link in bio.

10/11/2021

Join us on November 16th 2021 for the second Open Forum “Living Together, Healing Together” at 7:00-9:00 pm Beirut time (12:00-2:00 pm EST) - link in bio
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While the first Forum discussed the ways in which we live together, this next panel sheds light on “healing”: Communities of the Middle East are oftentimes in a perpetual state of recovery from grief, trauma, decades of colonialism, occupation, dictatorships, failed regime changes, wars, a pandemic, natural disasters, poverty and more. Actively engaging with multiple layers of healing redefines how we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us: Individuals, communities, and eco-systems coming together towards collective healing.
The second Open Forum provides a platform for different entities and people to share how they cope through their activism and their work (consciously or unconsciously). The Forum is intended to provide a safe space to come together, to share the day-to-day, as well as long-term and regional challenges.
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This Forum brings together a regionally diverse panel, to reflect over the complex thematics of healing, with Garine Boghossian .boghossian, Meriem Chabani .chabani, and Sarri El Faitouri . The discussion will be moderated by architect and curator Ala Tannir .tannir - With an introduction by the Open Forum and Wael Al Awar@waiwaidesign (Curator of the UAE Pavilion, recipient of the Golden Lion)

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The Open Forum is born from a collaboration between Co-Habitat Beirut exhibitors Sandra Frem and Carla Aramouny of , Wael Al Awar of (Curator of the UAE Pavilion) and The GSAPP Collective for Beirut (Iyad Abou Gaida .abougaida , Marylynn Antaki , Charles Hajj , Dina Mahmoud , Aya Abdallah, Maureen Abi Ghanem) running in parallel to the exhibitions of the Biennale. Organized around a series of gatherings to reflect, trigger and converse, the Forums look at stages of crisis as fertile grounds that advocate for togetherness and the rethinking of cities.
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The event is hosted by the Department of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut
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Event link in bio.

10/11/2021

Join us on November 16th 2021 for the second Open Forum “Living Together, Healing Together” at 7:00-9:00 pm Beirut time (12:00-2:00 pm EST).
⠀
While the first Forum discussed the ways in which we live together, this next panel sheds light on “healing”: Communities of the Middle East are oftentimes in a perpetual state of recovery from grief, trauma, decades of colonialism, occupation, dictatorships, failed regime changes, wars, a pandemic, natural disasters, poverty and more. Actively engaging with multiple layers of healing redefines how we see ourselves and our relationship with the world around us: Individuals, communities, and eco-systems coming together towards collective healing.
The second Open Forum provides a platform for different entities and people to share how they cope through their activism and their work (consciously or unconsciously). The Forum is intended to provide a safe space to come together, to share the day-to-day, as well as long-term and regional challenges.
⠀
This Forum brings together a regionally diverse panel, to reflect over the complex thematics of healing. The discussion will be moderated by architect and curator Ala Tannir .tannir
⠀
The Open Forum is born from a collaboration between Co-Habitat Beirut exhibitors Sandra Frem and Carla Aramouny of , Wael Al Awar of (Curator of the UAE Pavilion) and The GSAPP Collective for Beirut (Iyad Abou Gaida .abougaida , Marylynn Antaki , Charles Hajj , Dina Mahmoud , Aya Abdallah, Maureen Abi Ghanem) running in parallel to the exhibitions of the Biennale. Organized around a series of gatherings to reflect, trigger and converse, the Forums look at stages of crisis as fertile grounds that advocate for togetherness and the rethinking of cities.
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The event is hosted by the Department of Architecture & Design at the American University of Beirut
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Event link in bio.

25/10/2021