Issam Nassar, "Photo Albums as Bearers of Memory"
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- School of Art & Design Visitors Committee, the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Date
- Mar 24, 2022 5:30 - 7:00 pm
- Registration
- Zoom Registration
- Contact
- Alyssa Bralower
- abralo2@illinois.edu
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The presentation will focus on the relationship between history and personal and family albums in the case of the pre-1948 Palestine. With the destruction of Palestinian society around the time Israel was created, a large number of archival materials was lost. Without a state of their own, the Palestinians were left with mostly memories of their lives before they became refugees. In my presentation, I will argue that photographic albums constitute personal archives that narrates history from a familial perspective as well as preserves visual evidence of a life lost.