Culture & Heritage
Culture and heritage
Festivals, language, memories and places: the cultural heritage of a community between the Levant, Anatolia and Europe.
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Festivals and customs
Festivals make the community’s faith and togetherness visible. How they are celebrated varies from region to region and family to family; the academy aims to document this diversity together with the community.
DocumentationPlanned
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Language and literature
In everyday life Arab Alawites speak regional Arabic dialects and the languages of the countries they live in. Poems, proverbs and stories are the cultural treasure of this multilingual life.
DocumentationPlanned
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Oral history
Much has been passed on by telling rather than writing. The planned oral history project aims to record and preserve these memories with the narrators’ consent.
DocumentationPlanned
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Family and collective memory
Family stories, memories of village and neighbourhood and paths of migration form the foundation of collective memory. It lives on through the bond between generations.
DocumentationPlanned
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Historic places
From Hatay and the Cilician plain to the coasts of Syria and Lebanon, shrines, villages and cities are places of shared memory.
DocumentationPlanned
Preserving memories
An oral history project is being planned. Recordings will only be made with the explicit consent of the narrators and published only once all rights are clear.