The art of minorities : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa /
The art of minorities : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa /
edited by Virginie Rey.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xx, 313 pages) : illustrations, plan
- Alternative histories: narratives from the Middle East and Mediterranean .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Engaging with "minority" voices : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / The ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus : from compact minorities to toponymical identity / "The performance of servitude" : gendered and racialised representations of citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum / Minority audience : The Oudayas Museum and the manufacturing of elitism in Moroccan museums / Lodges of debate : Two museumised Sufi tekkes in Anatolia / Museums, migrant labourers and ethnic spatiality in the United Arab Emirates / Paving the way to a Lebanese national narrative : empathy at the Armenian genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon / A national museum for a people without a land : The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit / Egypt's Coptic Museum : from patriarchal to national / Branding convivencia : Jewish museums and the reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira / Is Tunisia ready for a Jewish museum? Perspectives on the current debates surrounding the status of Jewish heritage in my country / "Do I even exist?" Kurdish diaspora artists reflect on imaginary exhibits in a Kurdistan museum / Islamic State's archive of the digital infinite : imagined museums, new media and conflict capitalism / Afterword : minoritised memory and affect in a museology of disaster / Virginie Rey -- Virginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe -- John Thabiti Willis -- Francesca de Micheli -- Lucía Cirianni Salazar -- Sarina Wakefield -- Rita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher -- Zoe Holman -- Dina Bakhoum -- Aomar Boum -- Habib Kazdaghli -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Amanda Rogers -- Katazyna Pieprzak.
"Explores the representation of minority cultures in museums of the Middle East and North Africa. How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed? Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region --
9781474443784 9781474443791
Museums and minorities--Middle East.
Museums and minorities--Africa, North.
Multiculturalism--Middle East.
Multiculturalism--Africa, North.
Electronic Books.
AM7 / .A786 2020
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Engaging with "minority" voices : cultural representation in museums of the Middle East and North Africa / The ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus : from compact minorities to toponymical identity / "The performance of servitude" : gendered and racialised representations of citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum / Minority audience : The Oudayas Museum and the manufacturing of elitism in Moroccan museums / Lodges of debate : Two museumised Sufi tekkes in Anatolia / Museums, migrant labourers and ethnic spatiality in the United Arab Emirates / Paving the way to a Lebanese national narrative : empathy at the Armenian genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon / A national museum for a people without a land : The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit / Egypt's Coptic Museum : from patriarchal to national / Branding convivencia : Jewish museums and the reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira / Is Tunisia ready for a Jewish museum? Perspectives on the current debates surrounding the status of Jewish heritage in my country / "Do I even exist?" Kurdish diaspora artists reflect on imaginary exhibits in a Kurdistan museum / Islamic State's archive of the digital infinite : imagined museums, new media and conflict capitalism / Afterword : minoritised memory and affect in a museology of disaster / Virginie Rey -- Virginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe -- John Thabiti Willis -- Francesca de Micheli -- Lucía Cirianni Salazar -- Sarina Wakefield -- Rita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher -- Zoe Holman -- Dina Bakhoum -- Aomar Boum -- Habib Kazdaghli -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Amanda Rogers -- Katazyna Pieprzak.
"Explores the representation of minority cultures in museums of the Middle East and North Africa. How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed? Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region --
9781474443784 9781474443791
Museums and minorities--Middle East.
Museums and minorities--Africa, North.
Multiculturalism--Middle East.
Multiculturalism--Africa, North.
Electronic Books.
AM7 / .A786 2020