Fragment – Power – Public: Narrative, Authority, and Circulation in Archival Work
August 26th to September 6th, 2019, Beirut
Participants & Projects
| Al-Ghazzi, Omar (LSE) |
Twitter and the Archival Aesthetic |
| Alshaibi, Wisam H. (UCLA) |
Resurrecting the Dead: On the Exploitation of Ba’th Party Archives in the Service of War |
| Altuğ, Seda (EUME Fellow 2017-19) |
Conflict over Land and Citizenship in Syria under the French Mandate (1921- 1946) |
| Benkhaled, Walit (Filmmaker/U of Portsmouth) |
Generation Independence: A People’s History |
| Bordewich, Chloe (Harvard University |
Empires of Suspicion: Information, Power, and Social Trust in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1866-1956 |
| Elghoneimy, Ahmed (Filmmaker, Alexandria) |
A Virtual Tour of Cairo’s History |
| Elsherif, Nermin (U of Amsterdam) |
Facebook as an Archive of Popularity: The Multiple Co-productions of alzaman al-gamil in Egypt Post-2011 |
| Falęcka, Katarzyna (U College London) |
Photography’s Routes: Revisiting the Visual Cultures of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) |
| Ferreri, Veronica (ZMO) |
Tasharrud as a State of Permanent Loss |
| Gravenor, Vanessa (Writer and Artist, Berlin) |
The Learning and Unlearning of Violence |
| Hassan, Mohammad Shawky (Filmmaker and Video Artist, Cairo/Berlin) |
Watch Before Deletion |
| Ismail, Shebab (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) |
A Virtual Tour of Cairo’s History |
| Khouri, Kristine (researcher/Arab Image Foundation) |
Future Platform(s) around Modern Art in the Arab World: Sources and Footnotes |
| Labib, Malak (EUME Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation 2018/19) |
‘From the Needle to the Rocket’: International Development, Social Engineering and the Politics of Economic Planning in Egypt (1941-1965) |
| Masarwi, Maram (Arab American U/ Al Qasemi College) |
The Palestinian Archive: A Genealogy of Colonial Plunder and Fragmented Identity |
| Shahwan, Rula (Arab American University) |
Language and Terms of the Palestinian Archive |
| Shamel, Salma (NYU) |
A World without Footnotes |
| Sleiman, Hana (U of Cambridge) |
An Intellectual History of a Milieu: Pedagogy and Curricula Formation in Beirut, 1920-1956 |
| Sohrabi, Sanaz (Concordia U, Montreal) |
Spectral Images: Colonial Archives of Oil Production and Passageways to Collective Memory in Contemporary Iran |
| Soliman, Nayera (FU Berlin/BGSMCS) |
Between Home and Nation: Narratives of Suez Forced Migrants Between 1967-1977 |
| Taher, Maysam (NYU) |
Borders in Disrepair: Archival Excavations and Present Crises at the Hinges of the Mediterranean |
| Türkyilmaz, Yektan (EUME Fellow 2017-20) |
Polyphony on Record: A Century of Struggle over Imperial Sounds |
| Vince, Natalya (University of Portsmouth) |
Generation Independence: A People’s History |
