Heba Abd el Gawad | Egypt's Dispersed Heritage
Channel: Human Stories
Date: 2021-03-29

Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad from University College, London speaks about the dispersal and presentation of Egypt's cultural heritage in the Western world. 

Dr Gawad is the project researcher for the AHRC funded project: ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt’ at the Institute of Archaeology, University College of London aimed at amplifying the voice, visibility, and validity of modern Egyptian communities in UK museums. She has previously led various curatorial roles in the UK including co-curating Two Temple Place’s 2016 Beyond Beauty: Transforming the Body in Ancient Egypt exhibition, project curator of the British Museum’s Asyut Project, and more recently has guest curated Listen to her! Turning up the Volume on Egypt’s Ordinary Women exhibition at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. She specialises in the history of Egyptian archaeology focusing on the past and present Egyptian perceptions and representations of the collection and distribution of archaeological finds from Egypt to the world.

To learn more about Egypt's dispersed heritage please visit:

►National Museum of Scotland's research on the legacy of British colonialism in Egypt: https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/egypts-dispersed-heritage-arabic/

►University College of London's "Dispersed Egypt" project: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS004580%2F1#/tabOverview

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