New platforms expand access to history
A seminar held at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber brought together projects that digitize documents, reconstruct family histories and preserve the literary output of different peoples, highlighting initiatives around the world that use digital archives to preserve history. The project on Arab immigration to Brazil also shared new developments. The post New platforms expand access to history appeared…
São Paulo – Three digital platforms unveiled on Friday (13) at the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce's headquarters in the Brazilian city showcase initiatives to preserve and provide access to historical archives, particularly those related to Arab immigration. The projects, presented by the Digitalization Project for the Memory of Arab Immigration in Brazil, focus on tracing the history of Arab immigrants, recovering genealogical trees for families, and mapping the global trajectory of Palestinian literature.
The projects were organized by the ABCC, the Edward Said Chair at Unifesp, and Saint-Esprit de Kaslik University (USEK) in Lebanon, who jointly carry out the aforementioned project. The seminar, titled "International Seminar Stories from the Archives: Unlocking the Memory of Arab Presence in Brazil," highlighted the digitization of materials such as magazines and newspapers produced by the Arab community, the cataloguing and capturing of documents, and the dissemination of the digitized content through a digital platform.
The projects were led by Refqa Abu-Remaileh, who presented her digital project on Palestinian literature, Akram Khater, who spoke about the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, and Marcelo Amaro of FamilySearch, who detailed the scale of their international genealogical research project.
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