Tag: Heritage

We are working with young people from different religious minorities to document, archive and disseminate the oral heritage of their communities, in Egypt and Iraq.

Project The Middle East People’s Culture Conservation Collective (MEPCCC)

The Middle East Culture People's Conservation Collective (MEPCCC) is a collaborative initiative involving multiple partners, convened by IDS and implemented in Egypt, Iraq and Syria…

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Analysis The power of heritage to make a life worth living

At a conference in Beirut earlier this month participants gave evidence of the power of heritage to make life worth living for groups and communities…

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Working Paper
The Preservation of the Heritage of the Armenian Community in Kurdistan, Iraq Intergenerationally

This paper by Juwan Mohammed, Mohammed Mahdi Almofti and Yarjanik Aqob Kerob aim to explore different methods by which the Armenian community has maintained its…

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Working Paper
Translating Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Idioms into English

This paper by Varteen Hanna Shaba aims to explore how to define and classify idioms, and suggests specific strategies and procedures to translate idioms from…

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Working Paper
Kakai Religion and the Place of Music and the Tanbur

This paper by Zubeida S. Abdulkhaliq aims to explore the relationship between Kakai beliefs and music (tanburo), and how the tanbur (a sacred lute) is…

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Working Paper
Translation as a Means for Preserving and Disseminating Oral Heritage

This paper by Mahir Hussein Ali aims to explore how translation can be utilised as an effective tool for the preservation, survival, and dissemination of…

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Front cover of the CREID Working Paper entitled The Linguistic Heritage of the Maṣlāwī Dialect in Iraq
The Linguistic Heritage of the Maṣlāwī Dialect in Iraq

This paper by Maha Ibrahim Jasim deals with the linguistic heritage of the Maṣlāwī dialect in Iraq spoken by the diverse communities in the city…

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Front cover of CREID Working Paper 13 on Food and Drink Metaphors in Iraqi Syriac
A Study of Food and Drink Metaphors in Iraqi Syriac

In this Working Paper, Shivan Shlaymoon Toma investigates the ways in which Syriac native speakers from Iraq conceptualise their understandings of various abstract domains, feelings,…

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Screenshot of CREID Working Paper 14 on the languages of Bashiqa in Iraq
The Language of the People of Bashiqa: A Vehicle of their Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Working Paper by Dr Saeed Adris Saeed and Wafaa Sabah Khuder provides a linguistic, a historical, as well as a socio-cultural record of the…

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Case Study
Every time I look in the mirror, or I shower, I look at the tattoo and I remember my uncle – the heritage story of my tattoo (Iraq)

Irvin Ibrahim Solman speaks to Raad Eido Rehan, an Iraqi Yazidi, who shares painful memories about his tattoos. Men and women from religious minorities have…

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Case Study
A representation of beauty and community resilience in the face of threats and displacement – the heritage story of my tattoo (Iraq)

In this heritage case study, Nidaa Khalil Aswad interviewed and photographed, her grandmother Nemsha Shlo Smo. Nemsha was born in 1938 and has lived in…

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Case Study
Tattoos create meaning among people as a form of intangible folk heritage, a feature that has prevailed since ancient times – the heritage story of my tattoo (Iraq)

Kheyriyah Qasim is a septuagenarian Yazidi mother of 12 children, originally from Sinjar, Iraq. Owing to circumstances earlier in her life her actual age is…

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