Nathalie Rosa Bucher is a writer and researcher with an academic background and has published features for South African, Lebanese, and international media. Extensive research on the old cinemas of Tripoli undertaken since 2013 has led to her joining UMAM’s Documentation and Research team, as an archives assistant and researcher and curating TripoliScope. She obtained an MPhil in Rhetoric Studies and Disaster Risk Science from the University of Cape Town and is particularly interested in arts and culture, heritage and memory, mobility, indigenous knowledge systems and livelihoods adaptations strategies.