A Decolonised Future
Heritage, Memory and Emerging Stories in the MENA Region
VENI Grant | Project Leader: Dr. Nour Munawar | 2023-2027. The victorious side in a war often employs heavy-handed means to re-write the (hi-)story of conflict. Diverging meanings are often inserted into post-conflict narratives of cultural heritage reconstruction and memory preservation.
Munawar’s project critically engages with the potential of decolonizing the past and present-day historisation practices. It also explores their future impact on (re-)shaping, (re-)producing, promoting, and transmitting cultural heritage, collective memories, rebuilding identity, and conflict narratives in post-Arab Spring states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.