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Welcome to Insights! Long our quarterly e-update, beginning in 2020, Insights is now a revised platform to host all of ACOR’s blog posts, web-based articles, recorded lectures, and other digital products. Everything at Insights is free and open access. Please share widely!

ACOR Photo Archive Project 2016-2020: Building a Valuable Resource for “a Diverse, International Community”

Jan 25, 2021 Posted in Insights, Photo Archive Tagged with Archives, archivist, digital archive, Photography, photos

By Jessica Holland, Archival Projects Consultant “To reproduce an object is a task that requires know-how, but to understand what the object represents, its function or how it came to be, requires another kind of knowledge.” —Akram Zaatari, Against Photography (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2018, p. 103) Achievements: reflections on four transformative years…

“Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Madaba Region… Together: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) and Recent Community Archaeology”

Jan 24, 2021 Posted in Insights, Lecture, Research, SCHEP, VideoLectures Tagged with community archaeology, Madaba, mosaic, museum, museum studies, recorded lecture, SCHEP

ACOR Proudly Presents:“Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Madaba Region… Together: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) and Recent Community Archaeology”An Online Lecture by Prof. Douglas R. Clark (La Sierra University) on January 19, 2021 About the Lecture: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) has always been about “community archaeology,” which views archaeology…

Reconnecting with Our Heritage: How Do We Relate the Past to the Present?

Dec 22, 2020 Posted in Fellows, Fellowships, Insights, Library, Named Fellowships, أكور بالعربي

By Abbad Diraneyya لتقرأ المقال باللغة العربية هنا Under a hot October sun, from which I had nothing but a winter cap to conceal my face, the famous downtown of the Eternal City looked like a bunch of half-fallen columns emerging from a pile of rubble. “Disappointing” would be an understatement: I had patiently waited…

استعادة أواصر الصلة مع تراثنا: كيف لنا أن نربط ماضينا بحاضرنا؟

Dec 22, 2020 Posted in Insights

بقلم عبَاد ديرانيّة To read this article in English, click here. لم تكُن بحوزتي إلا قبعة شتوية لتحجب عن عينيَّ شيئاً من أشعة شمس الخريف، التي سطعت أمامي على كومة من الأطلال والأعمدة المتهاوية في مركز مدينة روما: وهو مشهدٌ أقلّ ما يُقَال عنه -بالنسبة لي- أنه “مخيّب للآمال”. كنتُ قد انتظرت هذه اللحظة بصبر…

My Petra

Dec 17, 2020 Posted in Insights Tagged with Archives, Petra

by Jane Taylor In this photo essay, writer and photographer Jane Taylor reflects on her many visits to Petra from the 1970s onward, which in turn contributed to books including Petra (1993, 2005) and Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans (2001). Something of her personal journey of discovery is told through encounters with…

Ask a Scholar: Micaela Sinibaldi, Islamic Baydha Project Director

Dec 2, 2020 Posted in AskAScholar, Fellows, Fellowships, Insights, Library, Named Fellowships, Petra Tagged with Ask A Scholar, Baydha, COVID, Crusader, Crusades, Interview, Islamic, Pottery

This written interview is part of a new series we are launching on Insights: “Ask A Scholar,” through which we hope to highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The below conversation, with former Bikai and de Vries fellow and Islamic Baydha director Micaela Sinibaldi, Ph.D., took place by email in November, 2020….

Ask A Scholar: Morgen Chalmiers, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Fall 2020

Nov 22, 2020 Posted in AskAScholar, CAORC, Fellows, Fellowships, Hostel, Insights, Life@ACOR, Research Tagged with anthropology, ethnography, feministethnography, genderstudies, healthcare, intersectional, medicalanthropology, refugee studies

This written interview is part of a new series we are launching on Insights, called “Ask A Scholar,” through which we hope to highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The below conversation, with ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Morgen Chalmiers, who is in residence at ACOR during fall 2020, took place by email…

MELA Presentation: Lockdown and locked out of access to knowledge?

Nov 14, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Archives, History, lecture, lecture recording, Library, photo archive, Photo archives, public lecture, research, visual heritage

by Jessica Holland On 21 October 2020, ACOR participated in the Middle East Librarians Association Annual Conference (MELA) for the first time, presenting on how our library and archives adapted to the changing conditions of the pandemic, alongside panelists from institutions across thirteen different time zones spanning from California to Qatar. Below is a text…

Reflections on Race at the Lowest Place on Earth

Nov 4, 2020 Posted in ACOR, CAORC, Insights, Research, SCHEP Tagged with Agritourism, CAORC, economics, Faculty Development Seminar, FDS, Ghawr, Ghawr as-Safi, Migration, Race, safi, SCHEP, Sugar

by Blaine Pope, Ph.D. Since I traveled to Jordan for the first time, for the January 2020 ACOR-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar “Sustainability at the Margins,” life in the United States, in Jordan, and around the world has changed noticeably. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and massive worldwide protests against racism stemming from the Black…

Heritage vs. Development: The Bayt Ras Tomb Project 2017–2019

Sep 30, 2020 Posted in Insights, Research, SCHEP, VideoLectures Tagged with arthistory, baytras, Community, Heritage, jehadharon, lecture, methodology, northernjordan, northjordan, recorded lecture, roman, romantomb, SCHEP, tomb

ACOR Proudly Presents:“Heritage vs. Development: The Bayt Ras Tomb Project 2017–2019”An Online Lecture by Jehad Haron on September 29, 2020 About the Lecture: In November 2016, a Roman-era tomb was discovered in the town of Bayt Ras, Irbid, by a team working to dig a sewage line in the area. In 2017, USAID SCHEP worked…

Making a Connection with the Past: My ACOR Internship on the Temple of the Winged Lions

Sep 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

By Nora Al Omari I joined ACOR as an intern to participate in the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) Publication Project, through which I have handled, documented, and rehoused objects from the temple and also managed the digitization and cataloguing of archival materials from this important Nabataean- and Roman-era site. The Temple of the…

The Making of Amman: Stories, Tours, and Traffic Jams

Sep 3, 2020 Posted in Insights, MESA, Research, VideoLectures Tagged with Amman, cities, geography, interviews, lecture, maps, methodology, Modern History, recorded lecture, Urban Studies

ACOR Proudly Presents:“The Making of Amman: Stories, Tours, and Traffic Jams”An Online Lecture by Prof. Betty Anderson on August 26, 2020 About the Lecture: Dr. Betty Anderson will present the research that she, Dr. Fida Adely, and several local researchers have been conducting in Amman over the last few years. Their research seeks to collect…

أرشيف أكور: مصدر مرئي جديد للتدريس في المدارس عن تاريخ الأردن والمنطقة

Aug 9, 2020 Posted in ACOR, Lecture, Library, VideoLectures Tagged with Arabic, Archaeology, Archives, History, lecture, lecture recording, Library, photo archive, Photo archives, public lecture, research, visual heritage

“ACOR Photo Archive: A New Visual Resource for Middle and High School Teaching about Jordan and the Region. ” This Arabic presentation was delivered as part of the Jordan School Librarians Conference in November 2019 to introduce the ACOR Photo Archive project and its work to preserve endangered photographic heritage from Jordan and the region….

“Open Jordanian Heritage”: Wikimedians Share Stories of Editing Online

Aug 9, 2020 Posted in Insights, Library Tagged with Archives, Cultural Heritage, Event, Library, Public Programs, students, Volunteers, Wikipedia

A key part of ACOR’s mission is to “promote archaeological research, cultural heritage preservation, and knowledge-sharing through lectures, digital resources, publications, workshops, and training programs.” Over the past year, we have expanded our knowledge-sharing activities online through engagement with the world’s largest open-access knowledge repository: Wikipedia. Articles on wikipedia.org—about any number of subjects, and in…

Jordan’s Tourism Sector in the Wake of COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?

Jul 15, 2020 Posted in Insights

by Nizar Al Adarbeh, Starling Carter, Hussein Khirfan, and Shatha Abu Aballi, USAID SCHEP* Steady Growth and Increasing Opportunities: The Tourism Sector in Jordan In recent years, Jordan’s tourism industry has grown steadily to become one of the most important sectors for the country’s employment and GDP. Jordan’s World Heritage Sites, including Petra and Wadi…

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