Monika Borgmann

Monika Borgmann, born in Germany in 1963, studied Oriental Studies and Political Science in Bonn and Damascus. From 1990 to 2001, she worked in the Middle East and North Africa as a freelance journalist for German radio and Die Zeit. Since 2001, she has lived in Beirut, where she founded the non-governmental organisation UMAM Documentation & Research with her Lebanese husband, Lokman Slim, in 2004. Borgmann and Slim co-directed the feature documentaries Massaker (2004) and Tadmor (2016).