The Art of Minorities : : Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa / / Virginie Rey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Rey, Virginie ,
• MitwirkendeR: Boum, Aomar,; Cirianni Salazar, Lucía,; Dagher, Rhéa,; De Micheli, Francesca,; Eccarius-Kelly, Vera,; Holman, Zoe,; Ishak Bakhoum, Dina,; Kalindjian, Rita,; Kazdaghli, Habib,; Pascoe, Stephen,; Pieprzak, Katarzyna,; Rey, Virginie,; Rogers, Amanda,; Wakefield, Sarina,; Willis, John Thabiti,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Alternative Histories : ALHI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 69 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables

Explores the representation of minority cultures in museums of the Middle East and North AfricaSets out a new way of understanding cultural representations in non-Western museumsEncourages a multidisciplinary/non-Western-centric reading of Middle Eastern museumsIncludes 13 case studies based on fieldwork and archival research in the Middle EastCovers Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria and the UAEHow 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 – examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities. They bring to the fore the region’s diversity and sketches a ‘museology of disaster’ in which minoritised political subjects regain visibility. ContributorsAomar Boum, Los Angeles, USA. Rhéa Dagher, University of Balamand, Lebanon. Lucía Cirianni Salazar, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Francesca de Micheli, Lorraine University, France (affiliate). Zoe Holma, historian and journalist.Rita Kalindjian, University of Balamand, Lebanon. Habib Kazdaghli, La Manouba University, Tunisia.Virginie Rey, University of California, Irvine, USA. Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College, MA, USA. Virginie Rey, University of California, Irvine, USA. Amanda Rogers, Colgate University, NY, USA. Sarina Wakefield, University of Leicester, UK.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction – Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa -- Exhibiting Minorities -- 2 The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical Identity -- 3 ‘The Performance of Servitude’: Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum -- 4 Minority Audience: The Oudayas Museum and the Manufacturing of Elitism in Moroccan Museums -- 5 Lodges of Debate: Two Museumised Sufi Tekkes in Anatolia -- Minorities Exhibiting -- 6 Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab Emirates -- 7 Paving the Way for a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide Orphans’ Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon -- 8 A National Museum for a People Without a Land: The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit -- 9 Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to National -- 10 Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira -- Imagined Museums -- 11 Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my Country -- 12 ‘Do I Even Exist?’ Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan Museum -- 13 Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict Capitalism -- 14 Afterword – Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of Disaster -- Index