About The Lab

Raah is a media research lab based in the Film and Moving Image Studies Department at Concordia. It aims to examine the intersection of migratory processes and media practices. Taking our cue from the evocations offered by the Persian word raah – which can mean ways or passage, and its underlying resonances of fellow-traveler, or companion, Raah aims to investigate the many methodological pathways open to researchers in migration and media studies.

Raah's project is a community-driven model, which hopes to bring together scholars, activists and community partners in a single space, becoming the first institutional hub in Canada for the study of media and migration. Raah aims to host both theoretical and practice-based research, as well as community-facing projects, in order to investigate the questions of immigration, hospitality, marginalization and their mediatized forms.

• Voices Beyond Lockdown: Collective Action and Care Across Borders in a Time of Crisis

  Voices Beyond Lockdown: Collective Action and Care Across Borders in a Time of Crisis upcoming: January 30, 2025 Stefan Christoff in conversation with Martin Akwiranoron Loft and Shanice Nicole The zine highlights the voices of frontline community organizers and also cultural workers interviewed during the first pandemic lockdowns in spring 2020. The zine, published in […]

  2025-01-22
• Artist talk with Rehab Nazzal

  Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-Canadian photographer who documents Israel’s settler colonial practices in Palestine and the resilience and resistance tactics of residents, primarily those in refugee camps. Her work underscores both the violence and dispossession that Palestinians experience but also their agency and collective forms of support. This event is co-sponsored by: Raah Lab Academics […]

  2025-01-09
• Where Olive Trees Weep screening + Q&A

  Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. We also witness Dr. Gabor […]

  2024-11-29
• The Political Aesthetics of Light, with Brian Larkin

  Brian Larkin uses light as a way of opening up questions about the relation of aesthetics to racial capitalism. Drawing from research in Nigeria, but thinking more generally, he moves between structures of political economy and the everyday techniques and experience of living with and in light. Co-hosted by the GEM lab. Photographs

  2024-11-29