History Workshops in Egypt
An Experiment in History Telling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alia Mossallam (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 241-251 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbx027 |
| OpenAlex | W2608330596 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
This project has focused on one central idea – making histories accessible, especially marginal histories of mainstream revolutionary events. I have sought to achieve this in two ways. The first is to create spaces through workshops – for groups of students, artists and activists – to re-explore revolutionary moments in history and challenge how they have been told; the second is to build a website containing archives (retrieved by my own research or donated by generous historians of Egypt) to make the sources of these narratives accessible. In this article I trace the experience of two of these history workshops – the first held on the Nubian Island of Suhail in Aswan, and the second in the city of Port Said. In each case we explored the invisible histories of the communities, silenced because of the oppositional narratives they harbour. The workshops became an attempt to create a critical consciousness of how history is written and could be read, through exploring primary sources: the archives, oral testimonies, newspapers, novels, the internet and even architectural sites. But most importantly, the workshops also explored ways to ‘re-tell’ retrieved narratives. Through reproducing these histories in non-academic forms (such as story-telling and film), we hoped to make these untapped narratives accessible both to the aspiring (non) historian, and to the communities whose histories we explored. For further information see https://historyworkshopsegypt.net.
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |