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More Than a Squat.

The al-Khatib Buildings in Khandaq al-Ghamiq Aside from the social and the political conflict, the squat has its origin in land tenure, a history yet to be told. During my many field visits to Khandaq al-Ghamiq, I was always intrigued by the al-Khatib buildings, known to be a centre of squatting in the area (figure 01, and 02 for location). These buildings form a variegated mosaic of...

Exiting violence artistically in Jordan: Garage Art as a Safe Space

This piece was made possible by a grant from the Fondation Maison des Sciences de I’Homme and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed are the sole responsibility of the author. For the last twenty years, Jordanian society has become increasingly affected by the repercussions of the State’s external affairs with neighboring countries. There was the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Syrian...

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Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture (Season two 2021-2022)

Another remarkable result of the signed letter of agreement between the University of Kurdistan-Hawler (UKH) and the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) was successfully achieved by the end of the academic year 2021-2022, through the second season of a series of online seminars regarding Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture (for the first season, see here). This was an outcome of thorough discussions between...

New considerations on the Arabic Dialect of the Bani Ṣaḫar Tribe

The Bani Şaḫar (in the plural form Ṣḫūr) are among the most important Arab Bedouin tribes in Jordan. According to Frederick Peake (1958, p. 215), they claim to descend from al-Ḥarb, one of the most powerful tribes of the Ḥiǧāz and Naǧd, and migrated to Jordan from Western Arabia in the late 18th century. They are divided into two groups: al-Ṭwaga and al-Čaˁābna. Their traditional tribal area...

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Ottoman Smoking Pipes in Bilad ash-Cham

An increasing interest in pipes as archaeological objects has developed over the last twenty years, affecting the whole Mediterranean basin. Thanks to an international mobility grant from the Institut Français du Proche Orient, a study of the pipes of Bey 012, the Church of St George, a site excavated at the end of the 1990s by Leila Badr, BEY 125 and of the Soap Museum of Saida has allowed...

Towards a science history of Jordan’s dairy industries. The example of jameed

Though Jordan is not a big producer of dairy products, its dairy tradition is among the oldest in the world (Curry 2013) and dairy products are an important and integrated part of the Jordanian diet. The main products processed and consumed in the country today are fresh cow, sheep and goat milk, drinking yoghurt (shaneeneh, شنينة), strained yoghurt (labneh, لبنة), dried yoghurt (jameed, جميد, see picture above)...

The Medieval Heritage of Anfeh and its Region (North Lebanon). The Results of the Archaeological Mission of the University of Balamand

The Lebanese coastal town of Anfeh sits 15 km to the south of the city of Tripoli. The archaeological investigations conducted there since 2011 by the Department of Archaeology and Museology (DAM) of the University of Balamand under the directorship of Dr. Nadine Panayot-Haroun have concentrated on the town and its region, and particularly on the sector of Ras al Qalaat, a long rocky peninsula covering an area of about 3.3 ha....

The Late Petra Project: an Archaeological Study of Settlement in Post-Urban Petra

Before the start of this project, a commonly held notion was that the Petra valley had been more or less abandoned for the whole Islamic period apart from a short parenthesis during the Crusader period, when the Franks were responsible for an important urban revival of the region (Hammond 1970, 39 followed by Vannini & Vanni Desideri 1995, 513; 515; 538). For this reason, it had...

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Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture

The end of the 2020–2021 academic year coincided with the end of the seminar entitled ‘Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture’, co-organized by the University of Kurdistan Hawler (Mahmood Khayat and Soorkeu Atrooshi) and Ifpo (Barbara Couturaud and Narmin Ali Amin), on the basis of a signed letter of agreement between Ifpo and UKH. This seminar was the result of many long, rich and mind challenging talks I had the good...

The Rural Renaissance of Mamluk Jordan: Tall Ḥisbān in Context

By Bethany WALKER  The recent “rural turn” in Islamic archaeology is nowhere more evident than in the rapidly growing interest in the Middle Islamic period in Jordan. The 13th-14th centuries CE is a rich time culturally and historically. Having documented the Mamluk-era phases of construction and reuse of castle sites, archaeologists are now turning to the extensive archaeological remains of rural settlements to reconstruct daily life in...

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The Jerusalem Manifesto: For a Decolonial Approach to Arab Theatre and Theatre in Arabic

We, young researchers from the academic fields of the Arab Studies, Theatre Studies and Political Science, share a common research topic –Arab theatre / theatre in Arabic– and a common position: we have all been educated in the European and French academic system. In the context of our research, we have employed a necessary empirical method, which has interrogated the limits of our methodological frames. We...

Facing poverty, plague and population displacement

An Appraisal of the International Symposium “Charity and Humanitarian action in the Near East, from Antiquity to Present Day” by Falestin Naili, Valentina Napolitano, Pauline Piraud-Fournet As half of humanity is currently experiencing confinement, curfews and border closings in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are reminded of an ancient practice that has shaped human history. At least since the end of Antiquity, welfare and...

The Baghdad Olympic Club: A Symbol of Independent Iraq in danger

Version française | النسخة العربية The Baghdad Olympic Club is located on Antar Square at the entrance of the Adhamiya neighbourhood. It is both the first modern sports complex built in Iraq and one of the first public programs designed under the supervision of the architect Ahmad Mukhtar Ibrahim. Mukhtar was the first Iraqi architect graduated from Europe, and the first Iraqi to be appointed  as Government...

So long, Bel

In memoriam, Palmyra (6 April 32 – 28 August 2015) Translation from the French version : «Bel est bien mort» http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/7020 «But that temple, so magnificent and so large, not to mention the wonderful structure of the roof, and the many brass statues, now hid in darkness out of the light of the sun, is quite perished. » Libanius, Oration 30: For the temples (Pro templis)...

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