The Seventh Edition of the Research Programme’s Booklet of Abstracts is Available Now

Dec 2020

You can now check the Seventh Edition of the Research Programme’s Booklet of Abstracts, To Strengthen the Culture of Knowledge, which was launched with the support of Mimeta and Heinrich Boll Middle East. The booklet consists of summaries of research papers which were conducted for the seventh edition and presents information about the programme, the participants, and the main topics they worked on.

To download the Arabic Booklet, please click here, and for the English version, please click here.

The booklet presents nine research papers, which cover a number of axes and themes within the general research frame for the programme. First, researcher Hammoud Emjedel studies oral history as a means to document coexistence in the Al-Hasakah Governorate, within the context of documenting, archiving, and preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Next, within the context of second axe being the creative industries researcher Nour Chantout tackles the Palestinian embroidery in Damascus and rural Damascus following the war, and the impact of demographic, social, or political changes on its artistic aspect.

The booklet also presents a summary of three supported researchers whose papers are concerned with the study of artistic orientations. Within the cinematic field, Ammar Almamoun looks at the exceptional political circumstances that the filmmakers of ‘Still Recording 2018’ and the people featured in the documentary had to experience in an attempt to study the factor of ‘danger’ as an aesthetic agent in documentary filmmaking. In the theatrical field, the booklet presents two research papers: the first is an analytical and descriptive paper by Almahdi Shbat which is based on interviews with several independent producers of theatrical performances held in Damascus. The interviews tackled the underlying causes that prompted them to resort to alternative locations for performances, particularly those organized in shelters and basements. Researcher Mai Atrache wrote the second research paper within this category, in which she studies theatrical locations and space in contemporary Syrian theatrical performances, especially in the period following 2011. As for Nour Flihan, she goes on a quest to allocate and analyze manifestations of the concept of ‘fear’ in blogs belonging to Syrian men and women in the diaspora between 2011 and 2019.

Finally, researcher Wafaa Abo Fakher studies the relationship between architecture, cultural concepts, and values in societies and the transformations that are happening between them. Her paper focus on Shukri Al-Quwatli Street and the buildings bordering it as they undergo physical and functional transformations after being opened for investment that is not necessarily in harmony with their identity, history, and the communal memory the express. The last research paper in the booklet by Yara Moussa is within the framework of functional and conceptual transformations: it focuses on the domestic, interior realm of the house and studies the kitchen as an architectural space, as well as the social relations that are linked to it.


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