Join us to learn about the Fighting Erasure: Archiving Against the Gaza Genocide and the War on Lebanon project from the international team of scholars, librarians, archivists, and historians leading the initiative. Fighting Erasure is a comprehensive and multi pronged project to safeguard Palestinian and Lebanese memory, history, and heritage against erasure and genocide. It includes public education and advocacy, training, social media archiving, resource sharing, and digital infrastructure development. T

he project is a locally driven and globally connected initiative that brings together universities, professional associations, archival repositories, heritage institutions, and a broad network of experts from Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt to Japan, Pakistan, Australia, Canada, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, and Ireland. 

Members of the project have now come to Qatar to network and share their experiences. We welcome you to be part of the exchange!

Speakers:

• Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, a Lebanese writer, archivist, historian and educator. She is Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University’s Department of Information Science in Canada, and founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab.
• Dr. Hanine Shehadeh, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi and a Research Affiliate at the Palestine Land Studies Center (PLSC) at the American University of Beirut.
• Rula Shahwan, Director of the Library and Visual Archive department at the Arab American University (AAUP).
• Ghada Dimashk, a long-time Lebanese librarian and archivist who is currently an Archival & Library Fellow at the Archives & Digital Media Lab at Dalhousie University in Canada.
• Dr. Rami Zurayk, Professor of Ecosystem Management at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut.
• Tamara Rayan, PhD candidate in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, specializing in Archives and Digital Curation.

Moderator: Rawad Bou Malhab, Head of Manuscripts and Archives, Qatar National Library.

Date: 23 November 2024

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Language: Arabic and English

Target Audience: Public

Seats are limited, please click the button below to register.

Drawing Description: Recreation by Ibrahim Abusitta of an image of an Israeli soldier posing for a picture in front of burning books. A screenshot of the original image was tweeted out by Younis Tirawi (@ytirawi), a Palestinian reporter on security and political affairs. In a fact check for snopes.com, Taija PerryCook reports the location is presumed to be the Central Library of the Islamic University of Gaza. This is part of the cultural genocide in which at least 104 archaeological heritage sites have been destroyed by the Israeli army.