7 Paving the Way for a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide Orphans’ Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures viii
4. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xii
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Note on Transliteration xv
7. Notes on Contributors xvi
8. 1 Introduction – Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa 1
9. Exhibiting Minorities
10. 2 The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical Identity 33
11. 3 ‘The Performance of Servitude’: Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum 56
12. 4 Minority Audience: The Oudayas Museum and the Manufacturing of Elitism in Moroccan Museums 72
13. 5 Lodges of Debate: Two Museumised Sufi Tekkes in Anatolia 87
14. Minorities Exhibiting
15. 6 Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab Emirates 111
16. 7 Paving the Way for a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide Orphans’ Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon 130
17. 8 A National Museum for a People Without a Land: The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit 151
18. 9 Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to National 181
19. 10 Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira 205
20. Imagined Museums
21. 11 Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my Country 227
22. 12 ‘Do I Even Exist?’ Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan Museum 241
23. 13 Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict Capitalism 268
24. 14 Afterword – Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of Disaster 299
25. Index 308