المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث و معهد بحوث جيتي يقدمان وبكل فخر

التراث الإنساني:
الحفاظ على تدمر، البترا والحضر
برنامج عبر الفضاء الإلكتروني
يوم الأربعاء 16 حزيران

وصف البرنامج:

تحكي التواريخ القديمة لمدينة تدمر (سوريا) والبترا (الأردن) والحضر (العراق) قصة التبادل الثقافي بين هذه المدين، حيث تشارك سكانها طرق التجارة، كما قاموا ببناء آثار مماثلة، وعبدوا آلهة محلية وإقليمية مشتركة. ورغم الإدراك بالقيمة العالمية لهذه المدن من قبل المجتمعات المحلية والدولية، فإن حماية ما تبقى منها والحفاظ عليها باعتبارها تراثًا إنسانيًا مشتركًا يزال يمثل تحديّا كبيراً

هذا البرنامج مقدم باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية من قبل معهد بحوث جيتي بالتعاون مع المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث، يجمع علماء آثار من هذه المناطق لمناقشة وفهم مستقبل هذه المدن التي كانت يوما ما نابضة بالحياة وكذلك الجهود المبذولة للحفاظ عليها.

المتحدثون:

د. سلام القنطار عميدة مساعدة لشؤون الشرق الأوست من روتجرز جلوبال وأستاذة مساعدة في علم الآثار في قسم الكلاسيكيات في جامعة روتجرز في نيو برونزويك. وهي كذلك مستكشفة لناشيونال جيوغرافيك، باحثة استشارية في متحف بينسلفانيا، ورئيسة جمعية سوريون من أجل التراث في برلين.

د. سليمان علي الفرجات رئيس مجلس المفوضين لسلطة اقليم البترا التنموي السياحي في الأردن. شغل سابًقا منصب مفوض محمية البترا الأثرية. تركز اهتماماته البحثية على التخطيط والتطوير السياحي لمواقع التراث العالمي وتمكين المجتمعات المحلية.

د. ياسمين عبد الكريم محمد علي أستاذة مساعدة في علم الآثار والفنون القديمة في قسم الآثار وعميدة كلية الآثار في جامعة الموصل. هي كذلك مديرة مشروع الحفاظ على التراث المجتمعي للموصل، الذي يوثق المباني التراثية في جميع أنحاء المدينة ويوفر سجلات لأعمال الحفظ المستقبلية.

د. هيلين ملكو المديرة المشاركة للزمالات والبرامج في المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث في الأردن. تركز أبحاثها على علم الآثار والتراث الثقافي في الشرق الأوسط، والتمثيل في المتاحف، وكذلك أفكار الوعي التاريخي.

نأمل ان نراكم قريباً ومحاضرة جديدة مع أكور 

Related Links:

ACOR’s Archaeological Projects Portal

Archaeology in Jordan 2 Image Gallery

Introducing the USAID SCHEP Collection (ACOR Digital Archive)

“A Journey from the Excavation Archive Back to the Site: The Architectural Decoration of the Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra,” by Marco Dehner (14 June 2021)

“My Petra” photo essay by Jane Taylor (17 December 2020)

Return to Palmyra (interactive online exhibition) (العودة إلى تدمر)

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ACOR and the Getty Research Institute Proudly Present:
“Human Heritage: Preserving Palmyra, Petra, and Hatra”
Hosted on Zoom on Wednesday, June 16, 2021

This program is also available in Arabic.

About the program:

Cohosted in Arabic and English by the Getty Research Institute and the American Center of Research in Jordan, this program brings together archaeologists from these regions to gain insights on the future of these once vibrant cities and efforts toward their preservation.

The ancient histories of Palmyra (Syria), Petra (Jordan), and Hatra (Iraq) tell a story of cultural exchange: their citizens shared trade routes, built comparable monuments, and worshiped common local and regional gods. These cities’ universal value has been recognized by local and global communities, but protecting and preserving their remnants as a shared human heritage remains a significant challenge.

About the panelists:

Dr. Salam Al Kuntar is assistant dean of Middle Eastern Affairs at Rutgers Global and assistant professor of archaeology at Rutgers New-Brunswick’s Department of Classics. She is a National Geographic explorer, a consulting scholar at the Penn Museum, and the chair of Syrians for Heritage (SIMAT), a cultural heritage association based in Berlin.

Dr. Suleiman Ali Al-Farajat is the chief commissioner of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority in Jordan. He previously served as the commissioner for the Petra Archaeological Park. His research interests focus on tourism planning and development around World Heritage Sites and empowering local communities.

Dr. Yasmin Abdulkareem Mohammed Ali is an assistant professor of archeology and ancient arts in the Department of Archeology and dean of the College of Archaeology at the University of Mosul. She is the director of the Preserving Community Heritage of Mosul project, which documents heritage buildings throughout the city and provides records for future preservation work.

Dr. Helen Malko is associate director for fellowships and programming at the American Center of Research in Jordan. Her research centers on Middle Eastern archaeology and cultural heritage, cultural representation in museums, and ideas of historical consciousness.

We hope to see you again soon for future ACOR lectures!

Related Links:

ACOR’s Archaeological Projects Portal

Archaeology in Jordan 2 Image Gallery

Introducing the USAID SCHEP Collection (ACOR Digital Archive)

“A Journey from the Excavation Archive Back to the Site: The Architectural Decoration of the Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra,” by Marco Dehner (14 June 2021)

“My Petra” photo essay by Jane Taylor (17 December 2020)

Return to Palmyra (interactive online exhibition)

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Bridget Guarasci is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellow at ACOR for spring 2019. During her fellowship Dr. Guarasci is completing a book manuscript on the wartime restoration of Iraq’s marshes, preliminarily titled Warzone Ecologies: Iraq’s Marshes on the Battlefields of War.

Dr. Guarasci’s book shows how Iraq and the United States commonly recognize the restoration of Iraq’s marshes as the great success of the 2003 war and post-Ba‘th reconstruction. These nations measure the success of marshlands revival against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein’s intervention in the same wetlands. In 1991 Saddam Hussein drained the marshes in retaliation for an uprising that began there and nearly deposed him. Returning Iraqi exiles in partnership with the US government set out to restore the wetlands to be emblematic of the post-Ba‘th Iraq they sought to build. The vast majority of US-initiated Iraq reconstruction projects have failed to meet their goals. What makes the marshes project distinct is that it continues to be recognized as a resounding success, distinguished in July 2016 with UNESCO World Heritage status. Warzone Ecologies explores how the Iraq’s marshes are 21^st century state infrastructure that binds war, the environment, and the economy in a Gordian knot of violence and nature.

Dr. Guarasci began her research on marshlands restoration while an ACOR pre-doctoral fellow in 2006. During her current time at ACOR, she will update her work in two principle ways. First, Dr. Guarasci will explore Arabic poems and novels that developed a mythology of the marshes. Mainstream media outlets ranging from the New York Times to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart as well as 60 Minutes have covered the restoration of the marshlands more than 75 times since the 2003 US invasion. They draw upon a British colonial history of the marshes penned by Thesiger and his coterie of travel writers to demonstrate the importance of the wetlands. This has had the effect of defining Iraq’s first national park, and thus its post-Ba‘th national iconography, in imperial terms. There exists, however, a rich literature in Arabic on the marshes, its tribal histories, its glorified past in antiquity when Sumerian civilizations mastered its waterways for irrigation, and its significance to Iraqi communists and revolutionaries fleeing political persecution. By reading Arabic poems and novels, Dr. Guarasci seeks to understand how Iraqi and Arab intellectuals have engaged this critical landscape and to locate understandings of the marshes today in their terms.

Second, Dr. Guarasci will update her research by investigating economic and environmental policies and practices that have developed since the marshlands received World Heritage status. Three of the top five oil fields in the world are located in the wetlands, encapsulated in subterranean reserves in marshlands subsoil. Since the opening of oil prospecting to foreign firms in 2003, multinational oil companies have established a presence in the marshes where they have begun to redevelop the fields. Dr. Guarasci will investigate potential links between international advisors on the marshes project to these oil companies in order to understand how the environmental rehabilitation of the marshes may have created pathways to natural resource extraction within the same geological field.

Dr. Guarasci earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Drew University in Women’s Studies and African Studies. Her work has been published by the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Brown University’s Costs of War Project, Arab Studies Journal, and the Cultural Anthropology blog. She has been awarded fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq.

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Zachary’s ties to Iraqi communities in Jordan and in the USA have deep roots dating from his undergraduate studies when he interviewed Iraqis who had worked as contracted interpreters during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.  That research and the personal connections with members of the Iraqi diaspora in the Chicago area consequently informed his Master’s Thesis, an examination of American support for Iraqi refugees and the experience of a particular Iraqi community center in Chicago. In 2013, during a short visit to Amman, Iraqi friends from Chicago connected him to their own families and friends in Amman.  The following summer (2014) he returned to intensively study Arabic in Jordan, and the following year was awarded a Fulbright IIE research Fellowship to continue to study the Arabic language, focusing on the Iraqi spoken dialect, and to design and lead a seminar course in collaboration with the Janet Abu-Lughod Library at Studio-X Amman, an extension of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

His current research will stretch over more than 18 months, and it involves in depth personal interviews with selected participants, kinship mapping, and participant observation. For example, Zachary conducts field work observing some research participants at work at a factory in the Zarqa Free Zone.  He also observes interactions between Iraqis and members of other nationalities at popular cafés around Amman as well as visiting Iraqi families in Jordan in their homes.  His subjects are young adults in the range of 20 to 40 years old, people just starting their lives and making decisions about where and how to work, whether or not to start a family, and thinking to put down roots in Jordan or Iraq or someplace else.  Jordan makes permission for Iraqis to reside and work in the country contingent on their ability to deposit funds in Jordanian banks, so participants who cannot afford to do so must trust in the unofficial policy of tolerance extended towards Iraqi migrants. To protect the privacy of his subjects, Zachary uses remote, password protected data storage, does not use individual names or identifiers in his field notes, and uses pseudonyms in his writing, in compliance with the Institutional Review Board of the University of Chicago.

Zachary Sheldon is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He has an M.A. in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Chicago (2015), and a B.A. in Anthropology from Tufts University (2011).  As a graduate student, his research has been supported by earlier fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the University of Chicago, and the Fulbright program. You can read more about his research in POMEPS STUDIES 25: Refugees and Migration Movements in the Middle East. To learn more about his teaching work with the Columbia Global Center – Amman and the Janet Abu-Lughod Library, see his piece in Jadaliyya. Zachary can be reached via email at zdsheldon@uchicago.edu.

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