Monika Borgmann
[5] Upon the recommendation of Rupert Neudeck (1939–2016), a journalist and prominent humanitarian activist,[6] Borgmann produced her first radio feature about daily life in wartime Beirut.[10] In early 2001, Borgmann moved from Cairo to Beirut for a film project about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre that was perpetrated by Phalanges militia fighters who killed up to 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shiites.[11] In June 2001, the Syrian journalist and human rights activist Ali al-Atassi introduced Borgmann to the publisher Lokman Slim, who was one year older than her.[12] Hailing from an influential family in the now Shiite-dominated southern part of Beirut,[13][14] he had studied philosophy and Ancient Greek at Sorbonne University in Paris during the 1980s.[22] In 2009, for instance, the couple presented the Israeli-animated war documentary drama film Waltz with Bashir about the key role of the Israel Defense Forces in the Sabra and Shatila Massacre to an audience of about 90 people.On February 3, 2021, Slim – a prominent critic of Hezbollah as well as of all other sectarian parties[32] – was found assassinated in his car following a visit to a friend in Hezbollah-dominated Southern Lebanon.