Virginie Rey is Research Associate at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor (with Stephen Pascoe and Paul James) of Making Modernity in the Middle East: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb (Arena Publications, 2015) and is author of Mediating Museums: Tunisian Ethnographic Museums (1881-2016) (Brill, 2019).

• Introduction1. Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaVirginie ReyExhibiting Minorities2. The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical IdentityVirginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe3. 'The Performance of Servitude': Negotiating Citizenship, Race, and Gender in Local and National Museums in Bahrain and the UAEJohn Thabiti Willis4. When the Local Population is a Minority: The Case of the Oudaya Museum in Rabat as a Key to Understand Elitism in Moroccan MuseumsFrancesca de Micheli5. Past Lodges, Present Prayers: Sufism and Museums in Konya and HacıbektaşLucía Cirianni SalazarMinorities Exhibiting6. Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab EmiratesSarina Wakefield7. Paving the Way to a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in LebanonRita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher8. Imperilled Objects and Unsafe Ideas: The Palestinian Museum, BirzeitZoe Holman9. Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to NationalDina Bakhoum10. Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in EssaouiraAomar BoumImagined Museums11. Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my CountryHabib Kazdaghli12. Do I Even Exist? Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan MuseumVera Eccarius-Kelly13. Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict CapitalismAmanda Rogers14. Afterword: Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of DisasterKatazyna Pieprzak.

This book applies the cutting-edge issues in museum studies today – questions of representation, inclusivity and ethics – to the study of cultural institutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Timely, innovative, probing and provocative, this volume makes a novel and long-overdue contribution. An essential book for those concerned with global museum studies, cultural rights, and the history of marginalised groups.

Virginie Rey is Research Associate at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor (with Stephen Pascoe and Paul James) of Making Modernity in the Middle East: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb (Arena Publications, 2015) and is author of Mediating Museums: Tunisian Ethnographic Museums (1881-2016) (Brill, 2019).

• Introduction1. Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaVirginie ReyExhibiting Minorities2. The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical IdentityVirginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe3. 'The Performance of Servitude': Negotiating Citizenship, Race, and Gender in Local and National Museums in Bahrain and the UAEJohn Thabiti Willis4. When the Local Population is a Minority: The Case of the Oudaya Museum in Rabat as a Key to Understand Elitism in Moroccan MuseumsFrancesca de Micheli5. Past Lodges, Present Prayers: Sufism and Museums in Konya and HacıbektaşLucía Cirianni SalazarMinorities Exhibiting6. Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab EmiratesSarina Wakefield7. Paving the Way to a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in LebanonRita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher8. Imperilled Objects and Unsafe Ideas: The Palestinian Museum, BirzeitZoe Holman9. Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to NationalDina Bakhoum10. Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in EssaouiraAomar BoumImagined Museums11. Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my CountryHabib Kazdaghli12. Do I Even Exist? Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan MuseumVera Eccarius-Kelly13. Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict CapitalismAmanda Rogers14. Afterword: Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of DisasterKatazyna Pieprzak.

This book applies the cutting-edge issues in museum studies today – questions of representation, inclusivity and ethics – to the study of cultural institutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Timely, innovative, probing and provocative, this volume makes a novel and long-overdue contribution. An essential book for those concerned with global museum studies, cultural rights, and the history of marginalised groups.

Virginie Rey is Research Associate at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-editor (with Stephen Pascoe and Paul James) of Making Modernity in the Middle East: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb (Arena Publications, 2015) and is author of Mediating Museums: Tunisian Ethnographic Museums (1881-2016) (Brill, 2019).

• Introduction1. Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North AfricaVirginie ReyExhibiting Minorities2. The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical IdentityVirginie Rey and Stephen Pascoe3. 'The Performance of Servitude': Negotiating Citizenship, Race, and Gender in Local and National Museums in Bahrain and the UAEJohn Thabiti Willis4. When the Local Population is a Minority: The Case of the Oudaya Museum in Rabat as a Key to Understand Elitism in Moroccan MuseumsFrancesca de Micheli5. Past Lodges, Present Prayers: Sufism and Museums in Konya and HacıbektaşLucía Cirianni SalazarMinorities Exhibiting6. Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab EmiratesSarina Wakefield7. Paving the Way to a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in LebanonRita Kalindjian and Rhéa Dagher8. Imperilled Objects and Unsafe Ideas: The Palestinian Museum, BirzeitZoe Holman9. Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to NationalDina Bakhoum10. Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in EssaouiraAomar BoumImagined Museums11. Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my CountryHabib Kazdaghli12. Do I Even Exist? Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan MuseumVera Eccarius-Kelly13. Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict CapitalismAmanda Rogers14. Afterword: Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of DisasterKatazyna Pieprzak.

This book applies the cutting-edge issues in museum studies today – questions of representation, inclusivity and ethics – to the study of cultural institutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Timely, innovative, probing and provocative, this volume makes a novel and long-overdue contribution. An essential book for those concerned with global museum studies, cultural rights, and the history of marginalised groups.