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Gardens speak / Tania El Khoury.
Gardens speak Tania El Khoury = الحدائق تحكي / تانيا الخوري.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El Khoury, Tania, author.
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Personal narratives.
- Syria.
- Syria--Politics and government--2000-2024.
- Oral history--Syria.
- Oral history.
- Installations (Art).
- installations (visual works).
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History
- Personal narratives
- Physical Description:
- xii, 80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- al-Ḥadāʼiq taḥkī.
- الحدائق تحكي.
- حدائق تحكي
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Tadween Publishing, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and (Syrian) Arabic.
- Summary:
- Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists and protestors who adorned the streets during the early periods of the uprising. These domestic burials play out a continuing collaboration between the living and the dead. The dead protect the living by not exposing them to further danger at the hands of the regime. The living protect the dead by conserving their identities, telling their stories, and not allowing their deaths to become instruments of the regime. Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation that toured around the world. It contains the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it.This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic. It includes an acknowledgement and introduction by the artist, and illustrations of the audience experience in Gardens Speak.
- Contents:
- Excerpt from Performance Poster
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : The political performance of mourning
- The performance illustrated : Act 1
- The story of Ayat al-Qassab
- The story of Basil Shehadeh
- The story of Abdul Wahid al-Dandashi
- The story of Mustafa Karmani
- The story of Bayan
- The story of Ahmad Bawwabi
- The story of Bilal al-Naimi
- The story of Abu Khalid
- The story of Jalal al-Latif
- The story of Hassan
- The performance illustrated : Act 2
- Letters from the audience.
- ISBN:
- 9781939067203
- 1939067200
- OCLC:
- 1000174623
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