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Archiving Gaza in the Present
Memory, Culture and Erasure
Brief Description
Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories, and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making, and...
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Archiving Gaza in the Present addresses the urgent crisis of cultural loss amid ongoing conflict. Edited by Venetia Porter and Dina Matar, this interdisciplinary collection documents destruction and explores heritage preservation through essays, interviews and 100+ visuals, stressing Gaza's cultural memory.
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Description
Conflict does more than destroy physical spaces. It extinguishes lives, erases histories, and disrupts the collective memory of entire communities. In Gaza, where genocide has wrought catastrophic loss, the destruction of heritage adds another dimension of devastation. Yet amid the rubble, acts of archiving, art-making, and storytelling persist.
Archiving Gaza in the Present brings together voices from Palestine and beyond to document the cultural erasure and explore how creative and archival practices resist it. Contributions from curators, architects, artists, journalists, lawyers, and scholars capture Gaza's once-vibrant cultural life, now turned to rubble.
Featuring rich visual material—from fragmented WhatsApp testimonies to forensic documentation—and including artworks, maps, and photographs, Archiving Gaza in the Present is both a living archive and a call to action. It is a vital resource for understanding Gaza's cultural survival amid destruction.
In partnership with the Arab British Centre.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781849250979
Publisher: Saqi Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 November 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Saqi Books
Illustration: 291 Colour & b/w Illustrations; 291 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Venetia Porter
- Edited by Dina Matar
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 200.0mm
Height: 250.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Venetia Porter is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art and at The British Museum. She was formerly Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at The British Museum and the lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, which opened 2018.
Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication and Arab Media at the Centre for Global Media and Communication at SOAS, University of London. She is the chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, and the founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
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