Lebanese and Near Eastern Heritage : a New Public History Partnership

The Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS) project has the pleasure to announce a new partnership with Charles al-Hayek, Lebanese public historian and founder of Heritage and Roots to publish and disseminate practices of public history from Lebanon and the region (Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Türkiye).

Since 2020, The FNR ATTRACT project PHACS has been developing public history and participatory models for interpreting and communicating the past beyond academia in Luxembourg and Europe. Led by Prof. Thomas Cauvin, the PHACS’ team has been proposing, developing, constructing, and evaluating innovative participatory public history frameworks to engage and empower groups, associations, and users.

This year, PHACS continues to tailor this knowledge further with partner initiatives and institutions on the international level, focusing on the production of history with a public perspective beyond Luxembourg.

This new partnership is part of a group of projects that Dr. Myriam Dalal is managing. Every collaboration is carried out with practitioners and subject matter experts from the Global South, and is tailored to fit their scope of work and our mutual interest in certain topics or themes. The collaboration with al-Hayek will feature joint lectures, bilingual publications in Arabic and English and other activities that highlight the practices of public history in Lebanon and the region throughout the coming year.

We hope for these international partnerships that PHACS has been exploring in the past months to enrich the practice of public history for public audiences and academics alike.

Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming events and how you can learn about this initiative’s development.