Little stories behind big events: A conversation with Charles Al-Hayek

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In the framework of International Archives Week, we are delighted to announce a new collaboration with historian Charles Al-Hayek (@heritage_and_roots on Instagram), exploring different perspectives on history through images. For our opening talk, Charles will select 25 images in the custody of the Arab Image Foundation, connecting them to the broader social and historical contexts in which they are embedded. Primarily made up of family photographs, these intimate images often act as a microcosm of society at large.

Kindly note that the conversation will take place in Arabic.

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0247az00001, 0247az – Alicia Simon de Azar collection, courtesy of the Aarab Image Foundation, Beirut.

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Arab Image Foundation

The Arab Image Foundation is an independent association forging new pathways for photography and image practices. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of artistic creation, research, and archiving, we explore, question, and confront the complex social and political realities of our times.

Our collection of over 500,000 photographic objects and documents from and related to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora has been gradually assembled over the last 20 years by artists and researchers and through donations. With a critical and innovative approach, we collect, rethink, preserve, animate, and understand these photographs through their multiple strata, and enrich the collection in the process.

http://arabimagefoundation.com

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Digital contact sheet of a series of portraits of singers in Lebanon at the Al Sada Magazine party on February 16, 1993.
0286 ma – Radwan Mattar Collection, courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut.

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