Amer Matar
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Archive

The archive is chronological rather than hierarchical. It records what was published, produced, screened or presented, including work from different phases of the same questions.

Investigations sit beside films, essays, exhibitions, interviews and press because the form changes while the underlying research often continues. Each item appears once and remains connected to the context in which it was produced.

2026
05 SEP Under Surveillance: My File at Branch 215Hannover · Syria Prisons Museum Event29 JUL Documenting the Memory of Syrian Prisons, from ISIS Jails to SednayaMonte Carlo Doualiya · Syria Prisons Museum Interview26 MAY “There Is Nothing More Nightmarish”The Dial · Prisons Museum Writing13 MAY Mapping Horror: Berlin Exhibition Reveals Sednaya Prison Through VR and Survivor TestimonyThe New Arab · Syria Prisons Museum Press11 MAY The Internal Dossier of the Tadamon MassacreAl-Jumhuriya / Syria Prisons Museum · Syria Prisons Museum Investigation27 MAR À Berlin, une exposition saisissante reconstitue en 3D la prison syrienne de Saidnayala-croix.com · Syria Prisons Museum Press26 MAR SEDNAYA: Syria’s Architecture of Repression and DeathBerlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial · 26 Mar — 27 Sep 2026 · Syria Prisons Museum Exhibition18 FEB Prisons Museum Poster ExhibitionGoldsmiths, University of London · Prisons Museum Exhibition
2025
08 DEC One Year After Assad’s Fall: Transitional Justice, Memory and Accountability in SyriaHAU Hebbel am Ufer · Berlin · Syria Prisons Museum Event28 NOV Branch 215 Investigation Launch with Amnesty InternationalNational Museum · Damascus · Syria Prisons Museum Event28 NOV The National Commission for the Missing: Questions and Disillusionmentaljumhuriya.net · Jawab / The Missing Writing28 NOV Branch 215 (Raid Team) of Military Intelligence: The Bureaucracy of Murder in State Prisonsprisons.museum · Syria Prisons Museum Investigation24 NOV خيبة وأسئلة كثيرة إلى الهيئة الوطنية للمفقودينaljumhuriya.net · Jawab / The Missing Writing27 SEP A Damas, une plongée en 3D dans l’enfer carcéral du régime d’Al-Assadlemonde.fr · Syria Prisons Museum Press24 SEP Syrian authorities arrest and briefly detain prominent activist as country’s president makes UN debuticij.org Press16 SEP إطلاق متحف افتراضي في دمشق يوثّق ذاكرة السجون في سوريا | ثقافةaljazeera.net · Syria Prisons Museum Press15 SEP Launch of the Syria Prisons MuseumNational Museum · Damascus · Syria Prisons Museum Event28 AUG A haunting new view of Assad’s brutality in Syriaeconomist.com · Syria Prisons Museum Profile25 FEB Documentary Theatre Event on the Hisba Diwan and Assad’s PrisonsHAU Hebbel am Ufer · Berlin · Prisons Museum Event04 FEB "متحف سجون داعش" أرشيفاً للقمع.. قراءة تحليلية - مجلة الفراتسalpheratzmag.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press The Shaitat Massacre — Deir ez-ZorISIS Prisons Museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation Rumaila Prison — RaqqaISIS Prisons Museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation Sednaya Military Prison (2011–2024)Syria Prisons Museum · Syria Prisons Museum Investigation The Hisba Diwan: Theory, Structure, Proceduresprisons.museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation
2024
16 NOV أول متحف توثيقي رقمي لسجون تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية - كافيه شو - مونت كارلو الدولية / MCDmc-doualiya.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Interview15 NOV The Virtual ISIS Prisons Museum | SyriaUntoldsyriauntold.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press13 NOV El museo virtual de las prisiones del ISIS: recrean la ingente red de edificios de tortura de los fanáticosamp.elmundo.es · ISIS Prisons Museum Press07 NOV متحف سجون داعش الافتراضي | حكاية ما انحكتsyriauntold.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press06 NOV Three Walls: Spatial Narratives of Old MosulUNESCO Headquarters · Paris · ISIS Prisons Museum Exhibition11 OCT Public Launch of the ISIS Prisons MuseumNational Theatre · London · ISIS Prisons Museum Event The Stadium Prison — RaqqaISIS Prisons Museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation The Ahdath Prison — MosulISIS Prisons Museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation
2022
JAN Syrian journalist Amer Matar on facing his torturer in courtcpj.org Profile ISIS Prisons Museum — Short Film Series · ISIS Prisons Museum Film
2021
APR Testimony at the Koblenz trialKoblenz Event
2018
The missing of Raqqa: families search for loved ones disappeared by Isis | Islamic Statetheguardian.com · Jawab / The Missing Press
2017
27 DEC Letters to Raqqa’s missing | ISIL/ISISaljazeera.com · Jawab / The Missing Press
2016
War zone via smartphone: the Syria mobile film festival | Filmtheguardian.com · Syria Mobile Film Festival Press Syria Mobile Film Festival — Short Film Series · Syria Mobile Film Festival Film Texts from ExileBook contribution · AlShare Media Foundation Writing
2014
Soldiers Come Back26 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film False Shot24 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film Syria from the InsideBook contribution · AlShare Media Foundation Writing
2013
20 AUG جثة واحدة هناك: شهادة عن أثر السيارة المفخخة على الحياةaljumhuriya.net · AlShare Media Foundation Writing05 AUG قلبي دوّدة تأكل أجساد أصدقائي الموتى… من يوميات شاب سوري في أوربا – عامر مطرamermatar.wordpress.com · AlShare Media Foundation Writing White Charcoal7 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film Banner23 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film Red Green Yellow7 episodes · AlShare Media Foundation Film Writing from ExileBook contribution · AlShare Media Foundation Writing Syria Speaks: Culture and Arts from the FrontBook contribution · AlShare Media Foundation Writing
2012
Our Streets Celebrate Freedom22 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film Syria… The Difficult Path to FreedomBook contribution · AlShare Media Foundation Writing
2011
SEP Syrian journalist arrested, held without chargecpj.org Press Azadi24 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film Smuggling 23 Minutes of a Revolution23 min · AlShare Media Foundation Film
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— HAU Hebbel am Ufer - Understanding Prison - MENA Prison Forum in Berlin #6hebbel-am-ufer.de · Prisons Museum Event— Seminar zur autoritären Herrschaft und politischen Inhaftierung in Syriengw.uni-jena.de · Prisons Museum Event— Prisons Museumprisons.museum · Prisons Museum Project— Amer Matar und das digitale syrische Gefängnismuseum: Kampf gegen das Vergessennzz.ch · Prisons Museum Profile— Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Fall – Global Investigative Journalism Networkgijn.org · Prisons Museum Profile— صحفي سوري يوثّق فظائع سجون "داعش" والنظامbbc.com · Prisons Museum Profile— One Year After the Fall of Assad in Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Theatre, Berlin, Germanyprisons.museum · Prisons Museum Event— الإضبارة الداخلية لمجزرة التضامن كيف تعاملت شعبة المخابرات العسكرية مع المجزرة بعد انكشافها؟prisons.museum · Syria Prisons Museum Investigation— Syrisches Foltergefängnis Saidnaja: Zwischen Mauern der Gewalttaz.de · Syria Prisons Museum Press— 3D-Projekt zu Syrien: Beklemmende Einblicke in Assads Foltergefängnistagesschau.de · Syria Prisons Museum Press— How the Syria Prisons Museum Is Uncovering Assad's Crimestime.com · Syria Prisons Museum Profile— Sednaya - Die Architektur von Tod und Unterdrückung in Syriendeutschlandfunkkultur.de · Syria Prisons Museum Press— سجن صيدنايا السوري في برلين... معرض عن الذاكرة والقمع والعدالةalquds.co.uk · Syria Prisons Museum Press— متحف افتراضي يوثّق ذاكرة السجون في سورياaawsat.com · Syria Prisons Museum Press— Berlin-Hohenschönhausen - Stasi-Gedenkstätte kooperiert mit syrischen Menschenrechtlerndeutschlandfunk.de · Syria Prisons Museum Press— Amer Matarprisons.museum · Syria Prisons Museum Profile— Syrien: das Erbe der Gewaltsrf.ch · Syria Prisons Museum Interview— متحف سجون سوريا: رواية الحكاية رقمياً | Syria Prisons Museum: A Digitized Storyyoutube.com · Syria Prisons Museum Talk— The Hisba Diwan: Relations with Societyprisons.museum · ISIS Prisons Museum Investigation— مؤسس "متحف سجون داعش" يتحدث لـ "المجلة" عن الرعب في "ديوان الحسبة"majalla.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press— متحف "سجون داعش"... جدران القمع ثلاثية الأبعادindependentarabia.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press— ثلاثة جدران: متحف رقمي لسجون داعش في باريسannahar.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Press— BBC Audio | The Explanation | The Media Show: ISIS Prisons Museumbbc.com · ISIS Prisons Museum Interview— Un musée virtuel sur les horreurs de l'Etat islamique en Irak et Syrielexpress.fr · ISIS Prisons Museum Press— 'We found nothing:' Thousands of IS victims still missingindependent.co.uk · Jawab / The Missing Press— المختفون في سوريا: قصة عامر مطرyoutube.com · Jawab / The Missing Interview— «مهرجان سوريا لأفلام الموبايل» يطلق منحتين في دورته الثانية... عامر مطر: أحاول عبر الكاميرا الاحتفاظ بكل ما يعنيني قبل أن يرحل أو ينتهيalquds.co.uk · Syria Mobile Film Festival Interview— Mein Herz ist eine Made, die sich über die Leichen der Freunde hermachttaz.de · AlShare Media Foundation Writing— عن أغاني الثورة السورية - معازفma3azef.com · AlShare Media Foundation Writing— بخاخة ربو زرقاءalquds.co.uk · AlShare Media Foundation Writing— Ettijahat- Independent Culture.ettijahat.org Profile— عامر مطر - هل انتهى كابوس السجون في سوريا؟ | سوريا لوين؟youtube.com Interview— عامر مطر: "أنا عايش بين السجون"youtube.com Interview— Efter mere end et år er der stadig langt til et retsopgør i Syrienglobalnyt.dk Press— العدالة الانتقالية، السردية الناقصةyoutube.com Talk— Outrage after Syria detains Prisons Museum co-founder Amer Matarnewarab.com Press— BBC World Service - Outlook, How I brought my jailer to justicebbc.co.uk Interview— صحفي سوري يروي معاناته بسجون السوريةyoutube.com Interview— Meet the Artist | Amer Mataryoutube.com Talk— Syrien: Journalist und ehemaliger Writers-in-Exile-Stipendiat Amer Matar festgenommen – Update: am 25.9.2025 freigelassenpen-deutschland.de Press— Der syrische Autor Amer Matar: Mit dem Kopf in der Höllefaz.net Profile