Title & Author:

Archiving Gaza in the present : memory, culture and erasure / edited by Dina Matar and Venetia Porter.

Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 2025.

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284).
Preface / Vera Tamari -- Introduction / Dina Matar and Venetia Porter -- Reflections on Gaza: dead to you / Selma Dabbagh -- Reflections on Gaza : the land that never dropped the flag of Palestine / Salman Abu Sitta -- An act of resistance / Venetia Porter -- Between the siege, experimentation and art / Shareef Sarhan -- Shababeek : the story of art in Gaza, from dream to reality / Shareef Sarhan -- Curating in a city under siege / Bahaa Abudaya -- The teaching of art in Gaza / Salman Nawati -- Sahab, the cloud museum / Marion Slitine and Salman Nawati with HAWAF Collective -- The visual arts in Gaza / Mohamed Abusal -- A journey of memories / Hazem Harb -- Hazem Harb : the portfolio / Venetia Porter -- My name is / Malak Mattar -- Stories of Gaza's artists living under siege / Sarvy Geranpayeh -- Artists of Gaza, the will to keep on / Sarvy Geranpayeh and Venetia Porter -- Once upon a time in the near-east : Gaza archaeological museum between project, achievement and reality / Marc-André Haldimann and Jawdat Khoudary with Béatrice Blandin -- Thirty years of archeological fieldwork and cultural heritage protection in Gaza bombed into oblivion / Fadel al-Utol with Marc-André Haldimann -- Gaza's maritime past / Georgia Andreou, Yasmeen Elkhoudary and Ayman Hassouna -- Preserving heritage in Gaza City / Seif El Rashidi and Leena Ghanman with Muneer Elbaz -- Culturicide / Omar Al-Qattan -- Reflections on cultural loss: Bayt El Saqqa and the libraries of Gaza / Dina Matar and Venetia Porter with Aser El Saqqa -- Photo Kegham : unboxing an unmade archive / Kegham Djeghalian Jr -- Stitching Palestinian heritage / Dina Asfour -- On textiles and tatreez from Gaza / Rachel Dedman -- Solidarity in action : resisting scholasticide / Omar Shweiki -- The reason my daughters lost their education, and I lost my academic job in Gaza / Mohammedwesam Amer -- Walking the day / Atef Alshaer -- Good night, Gaza / Hiba Abu Nada -- Tell them / Huda Skaik -- Memoricide : killing people, killing memory / Dina Matar -- If I must die / Refaat Alareer -- Airmindedness / Chin-Chin Yap -- Documenting destruction / Emily Tripp -- Fighting erasure : social media's role in documenting and archiving the war on Gaza / Ghada Dimashk -- From ground zero : cinema in a time of genocide / Nadia Yaqub -- Gaza's natural environment : a silent casualty of Israel's war / Fred Pearce -- 'No one will believe what the survivors will say' : preserving accounts of everyday life under genocide in Gaza / Caitlin Procter -- Intangible cultural heritage in Palestine and international law : the wherewithal of cultural genocide / Lina Khamis -- War crimes and cultural heritage : the deliberate destruction of Gaza's cultural property-recognition, challenges and accountability / Fionnuala Rogers -- Missing pieces / Joanna Oyediran -- Songs and poems of Gaza during the genocide / Atef Alshaer -- Mary of Gaza / Ibrahim Nasrallah -- 'Destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza' : the genocide of people and stones, and the approach to reconstruction / Shatha Safi and Hiba Omari -- Ruins confronting colonial erasure : challenging emptiness and reclaiming home, street and neighbourhood in Gaza / Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari -- Silence for Gaza / Marmoud Darwish.

Summary:

"Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making and storytelling persist. Archiving Gaza in the Present brings together voices from Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and to explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Contributions from curators, architects, artists, journalists, lawyers and scholars capture Gaza’s once-vibrant cultural life – historic buildings, art centres, universities and museums that existed before October 2023 – now turned to rubble. Featuring rich visual material – from fragmented WhatsApp testimonies to forensic documentation – and including artworks, maps and photographs, Archiving Gaza in the Present is both a living archive and a call to action. It is a vital resource for understanding Gaza’s cultural survival amid destruction."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781849250979 (paperback)
1849250979 (paperback)
ePub ebook
9781849250986

Subject:

Cultural property Protection Gaza Strip.
Historic preservation Gaza Strip.
Genocide.
Génocide.
Cultural property Protection
Historic preservation
Art and Design.
Middle Eastern / West Asian Interest.
Gaza Strip Civilization.
Gaza, Bande de Civilisation.
Gaza Strip
Cultural property - Protection - Gaza Strip Cultural property - Protection Historic preservation - Gaza Strip Historic preservation Gaza Strip - Civilization Gaza Strip

Added entries:

Matar, Dina, editor.
Porter, Venetia, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order