Abstract
Contents: Introduction: challenges and directions in an emerging field of research, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz Part I Local Representations of Modernity: Collecting the nation: lexicography and national pedagogy in al-nahda al-'arabiya, Nadia Bou Ali Between looters and private collectors: the tragic fate of Lebanese antiquities, Helene Sader Tawfik Canann - collectionneur par excellence: the story behind the Palestinian amulet collection at Birzeit University, Vera Tamari. Part II Collecting Practices, Historiographic Practices: The good, the bad and the ugly: collector, dealer and academic in the informal old-paper markets of Cairo, Lucie Ryzova The reform of history school textbooks in Lebanon: collecting conflict memories in a peace-building process (1996-2001), Betty Gilbert Sleiman The Beit Beirut project: heritage practices and the Bakarat building, Sophie Brones. Part III From Institutional to Artistic Practices of Collecting: The formation of the Khalid Shoman private collection and the founding of Darat al Funun, Sarah A. Rogers The ecstasy of property: collecting in the United Arab Emirates, Emily Doherty Collecting modern Iraqi art, Nada Shabout Collecting the uncanny and the labour of missing, Walid Sadek Index.
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