Conferences

 Lectures and Speaking Engagements

• May 27–28, 2025 – ReOrient: Active Archives and (Counter)Colonial Spaces. Speaker. Uppsala University, Sweden.

• May 25, 2025 – Archiving Disappearances: Missing Persons and Martyrs' Bodies Archives. Moderator / Interviewer. Conducted a recorded public conversation with Yara Abu Khadijeh, who presented her research on archiving disappearances and the documentation of martyrs’ bodies. The discussion explored ethical and political implications of such archives and their role in resisting erasure. View here.

• May 21, 2025 – Class Visit to “Archival Activism” (University of Amsterdam). Guest Speaker. Invited by Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar to speak with graduate students about digital archival practices, cultural heritage preservation, and documentation of the war on Palestine and Lebanon. 

• May 20, 2025 – 46th MELCom International Conference (MALCOM). Speaker, represented Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar as a speaker. Organized by the Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCom). Online. 

• May 19, 2025 – From Lebanon to Palestine: Fighting Erasure, Archiving against Genocide. Speaker & Coordinator. Lebanese University – Branch 1, Beirut (in-person & livestreamed). View here.

• May 1, 2025 – Podcast Interview Library Education –  Liqaʾ ḥawla mashrūʿ ʿālamī lil-muḥāfaẓa ʿalā wathāʾiq Filasṭīn wa-Lubnān. discussing global efforts to safeguard archival materials from Palestine and Lebanon. View here.

• February 14, 2025 – Archives - Fighting Erasure. Speaker. Organized by CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). 

• January 27, 2025 – Cataloguing Palestine: Cultural Imperialism in Subject Headings. Co-Speaker with Basma Chebani and Rula Shahwan.  Organized by the Archives and Digital Media Lab. View here.

• December 1, 2024 – Archiving Gaza in the Present Conference. Session 3: Memory and the Intangible - Speaker. Organized by the Arab British Centre and the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS University of London. 

• November 23, 2024 – Fighting Erasure: Archiving Against the Gaza Genocide and the War on Lebanon - Co-Speaker with Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, Dr. Hanine Shehadeh, Dr. Rami Zurayk and Rula Shahwan.  Organized by Qatar National Library. 

• November 2024 – Archival Decolonization and Knowledge Justice Roundtable. Co-Speaker with Dr. Jamila Ghaddar, Mariam Karim, Doa Sarmad Khan. Archival Education and Research Institute. Northwestern University, November 2024, Qatar.

• November 7, 2024 – Archiving Against Genocide: Liberatory Memory Work for Palestine and Lebanon. The Middle East Librarians Association Annual Meeting 2024 (hybrid) – Co-Speaker with Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, Dr. Hanine Shehadeh, Dr. Rami Zurayk and Tam Rayan; Conversants: Dr. Mariam Karim and Blair Kuntz. Organized by MELA.

• November 7, 2024 – Annual Report of ARMTAG. The Middle East Librarians Association Business Meeting, 2024 (hybrid) – Co-Speaker with Blair Kuntz. Organized by MELA.

• June 10-13, 2024 – "Future-Proofing: Centering Care Now for Archives Tomorrow" – Speaker in session C-11: "Cultural Memory and Archival Destruction in Palestine: The Case of Gaza," at the ACA 2024 Virtual Conference. Organized by the Association of Canadian Archivists.

• June 4, 2024 – "Archives & Heritage for Palestine: In Conversation with Dr. Salman Abu Sitta" – Speaker. Organized by MELA, PLSC, ADML, and Publishers for Palestine.

“Against Genocide: Mapping the Future of Palestine, One Archive at a Time,” in Public Source includes a transcript of the main presentation; edited. 

• May 29, 2024 – Endangered Libraries and Archives Committee (ELAC) Panel Discussion – "Web Archiving Palestine" – Co-Speaker with Jamila Ghaddar. Organized by MELA.

• May 20-23, 2024 – "75 Years of an Ongoing Nakba Conference" – Moderator. Organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies and Palestine Land Studies Center at AUB.

• May 14-16, 2024 – "Libraries and the Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage – Archiving Social Media Covering the Ongoing Genocide" – Speaker. Organized by the Lebanese Library Association.

• March 5, 2024 - "Preserving Palestine: The Struggle to Safeguard Palestinian Identity" - Speaker. Organizers: Palestine Land Studies Center and University Libraries at AUB.

• February 10-12, 2024 – "The Second Annual Palestine Forum – Archiving Genocide" – Speaker. Organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.

• November 20, 2023 – "Preserving Palestine: Cultural Heritage Under Settler-Colonialism" – Speaker. Organized by Librarians & Archivists with Palestine (LAP) and MELA.

• August 20, 2021 – "The Lebanese National Library’s Policies in Creating the Authority File Names" – Speaker. VIAF Council Meeting.

• November 27, 2018 – "The Lebanese LAM Sector: Collaboration Amongst National Heritage Institutions – Reality and Implementation" – Speaker. American University of Beirut.

• May 11, 2018 – Moderator. 6th Session of the Lebanese National Association Conference. View Gallery.

• February 16-17, 2017 – "The Lebanese National Library’s Experience in Implementing RDA" – Speaker. "Electronic Cataloging in Arabic Libraries Applying RDA." House of Manuscripts of al-Abbas Holy Shrine.

• March 26, 2015 – "The Challenges Facing Libraries in the Digital Era" – Speaker. CLAC Public Library, Beirut, Lebanon.

• August 7, 2014 – "To RDA or Not to RDA" Co-Presenter with Eman Khiry, Shadia al Hanafy, Tharwat Al-Olaimi, Ahmed Aman, and Osama Mahmoud. Egypt Library Experts, American Library Association (ALA). Online. View here.

• April 17, 2013 – "Changes from AACR2 to RDA" – Co-presenter with Professor Ahmad Taleb. Lebanese Library Association. Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

Attended Conferences and Trainings 

• 2024-2025: Archival Education & Training: Fundamentals of Archival Management & Emergency Mitigation in Palestine, Lebanon & the Global South (8 weeks). Funded and supported by the International Council on Archives’ Section on Archival Education & Training. Taught by Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar; Tam Rayan; Andrew Sandock; Krystal Payne; and Patrick McGee with accessibility and coordination facilitated by Ghada Dimashk and Dr. Nisha Toomey. Co-presented with the Middle East Librarians Association’s Archives & Records Advocacy & Training Group and the Archives & Digital Media Lab. In collaboration with the Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon project (PI’s: Drs. Rami Zurayk, Hanine Shehadeh and Jamila J. Ghaddar); Archival Society in Palestine (ACP); and Lebanese Library Association.

• 2018-05-09&10: "Innovative Libraries: Paths to the Future". 4th Annual Conference, organized by the Lebanese Library Association.

• 2017-07-07: Codicological Description of Manuscripts, by Stefano Di Pietrantonio, ABJAD Project (Describing philosophical manuscripts of the MENA region), USJ University, Lebanon.

• 2015: Preserving Manuscript Heritage, organized by Library and Manuscripts al-Abbas Holy Shrine, 4-5 October 2015, and RDA Training, 6-7 October 2015, at Iraq.

• 2015: Bib-Frame Conference, organized by Cybrarians, 9-10 September 2015, at Cairo, Egypt.

• 2015: The Art of Invention: Culture, technology and user engagement in the digital age, 10-11 February 2015, organized by EMEA Regional Council Meeting, at Florence, Italy.

• 2013-04-24: Lecture on RDA, by Boughdana Hajjar, at USEK University, Beirut-Lebanon.

• 2013: RDA workshop, jointly organized by AUB and AMICAL, between May 27th-31st. Speakers: Ms. Lori Robare, Professor & Monographic Team Leader, University of Oregon and Ms. Iman Dagher, Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian, University of California at Los Angeles.

• 2013: Lecture: An Overview of RDA and the latest developments on the topic. Speakers: Ms. Lori Robare, Professor & Monographic Team Leader, University of Oregon and Ms. Iman Dagher, Arabic and Islamic Studies Catalog Librarian, University of California at Los Angeles.

• 2012: Annual Conference 2012: The changing faces of Libraries: Inspiration, transformation and Innovation, 26-28 April 2012 at Bristol Hotel, Beirut-Lebanon.

• 2010: IFLA-RSCAO Mid-Winter meeting in Beirut: The Glam Sector: Finding Common Ground for shared opportunities at Commodore Hotel, Beirut-Lebanon.

• 2009: OCLC Meeting with Lebanese Library Association.

• Qatar National Library. (2024, November 23). Maktabat Qaṭar al-Waṭaniyya tadaʿam mubādara li-ḥimāyat al-turāth al-Filasṭīnī wa-al-Lubnānī min al-maḥw. View here.

• Al-Sharq. (2024, November 23). Maktabat Qaṭar al-Waṭaniyya tadʿam mubādara li-ḥimāyat al-turāth al-Filasṭīnī wa-al-Lubnānī min al-maḥw. View here.

• Publishers for Palestine. (2024, August 30). Against genocide: Mapping the future of Palestine, one archive at a time. View here.

• The Public Source. (2024, August 26). Archiving against genocide: Mapping the future of Palestine. View here.

• Palestine Land Society. (2024). Against genocide: Mapping the future of Palestine, one archive at a time. View here.

• Ghaddar, J. (2024, July 23). Resistance archives in the shadow of genocide: From Lebanon to Palestine: Counter memories for liberation and return. Briarpatch Magazine. View here.

• American University of Beirut, Palestine Land Studies Center. (2023). Featured stories. View here.

• Ishizawa, A. (2021, November 25). 2020-2021 VIAF Council Meeting Report. View here.

• March 8, 2015- Recognized as one of the "مكتبيات رائدات", for leading the adoption of RDA standards at the Lebanese National Library and creating an in-house cataloging guide despite limited resources. View here | Image.

• Al-Marjiʿ al-Iliktrūnī lil-Maʿlūmātiyya. (2021, February 28). Bi-mushārakah maḥalliyya wa-ʿarabiyya: Markaz al-Fahrasa wa-Nuẓum al-Maʿlūmāt yaʿtazim iqāmat warshah ʿilmiyya wa-yuwajjih daʿwah lil-mushārakah. View here.

• Qism al-Shu’ūn al-Fikriyya wa-al-Thaqāfiyya. (2017, Shubāṭ 16). Inʿiqād ūlā al-jalasāt al-baḥthiyya ḍimn faʿāliyāt al-multaqā al-ʿilmī al-thānī lil-fahrasa wa-al-taṣnīf alladhī yuqīmuhu Markaz al-Fahrasa wa-Nuẓum al-Maʿlūmāt. Li-l-iṭṭilāʿ, iḍghaṭ hunā. View here.

• Interview with Ghada Dimashk about BibFrame. (2014). View here.

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