Bellingcat Challenge #32 "Training Time" Writeup

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Challenge

Bellingcat Challenge #32 “Training Time”

Following the creation of Bellingcat in 2014, the first few years were focused on publishing investigations, and running training sessions.

In December 2017, Christiaan Triebert hosted a workshop as a representative of Bellingcat. The image above shows Christiaan at that event. Your task is to identify the name of the room seen in the photo (answer format: The Name Of The Room).

Solution

Searching for workshops attended by Christiaan Triebert in December 2017 surfaced KABK Graphic Design and ARIJ17. Following #ARIJ17 from Triebert’s post led to an ARIJ Network post showing a room with the same walls and carpet as the challenge image.

The ARIJ 10th Annual Forum website shows that the event took place at the Mövenpick Resort and Spa at the Dead Sea.

The relevant session page lists Al Diwan 1 as the session room. However, photographs of Al Diwan show a different design from the room in the challenge image.

I therefore checked the venue’s other meeting rooms and found that The Grand Ball Room has the same walls and carpet as the challenge image. The English page now appears to show a renovated design, but the Arabic and German versions retain photographs of the earlier layout.

Image source: Mövenpick Resort Dead Sea, “The Grand Ball Room” (Arabic version)

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The Grand Ball Room