This video of Judge Mounir Souleiman reading his seminal judgement from 2007 was presented as part of the exhibition Introduction to T.A.N.J.

Recent cases (in 2009 and 2014) supported by the Beirut-based social-justice organization Legal Agenda demonstrated that judges have the right to interpret the concept of nature in such ways as to dismiss accusations of same-sex relations and sodomy. In 2009, for example, Judge Mounir Suleiman delivered a verdict in a criminal case in which two men were accused of violating Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code. At the end of this verdict, he gives his own interpretation of the concept of “nature” in law, and looks for a language that is nor legal nor poetical but in between. It is the direct consequence of the discursive platform Legal Agenda developed in Beirut.