Conferences

Lectures and Speaking Engagements

July 15, 2026. “Archival Violence, Social Media, and Counter-Archival Resistance.” Speaker at an online discussion organized by Medicide.Journal. Online.
June 24, 2026. “For Land & Life: Resistant Archives & Counter Narratives from Palestine to Lebanon.” Roundtable participant at the 2026 BRISMES Conference, “War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide,” as part of the Fighting Erasure project. SOAS University of London, London, United Kingdom.
June 11, 2026. “al-Nasīj al-ʿUmrānī al-Thaqāfī fī al-Janūb” [The Urban and Cultural Fabric of South Lebanon]. Speaker with Zeinab Nimr at the first session of the open discussion series “al-Janūb Yuqāwim” [The South Resists], organized by Public Works Studio. Bayt Aam – Sami el-Solh, Beirut, Lebanon.
May 5-8, 2026. "Archival Violence in an Upside-Down Archives World: AI, Social Media, and the Erasure of Palestinian Memory from Gaza to Lebanon". Speaker at the "Palestine is a Global Issue”. Organized by the Observatory for Palestinian Studies (Iscte). Lisbon, Portugal.
May 5-8, 2026. "Algorithms of Erasure: Archiving as Resistance in the Age of Digital Silencing". Speaker at the "Designing Digital Preservation Strategies Across Contexts”. Organized by the Getty Conservation Institute in collaboration with Getty Digital. Online.
April 25–26, 2026. "The Renaissance in the Upside-Down “Archives” World. Speaker at the “Bristol Radical History Festival 2026.” Hosted by M Shed and The Cube, Bristol, United Kingdom. Online.
January 25-27, 2026. "The Upside-Down Archives World: Between Celebration and Destruction in Middle East Librarianship". Speaker at the MELA/MELCom Conference 2026, the joint annual conference of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) and MELCOM International. Organized by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) and MELCOM International. Cairo, Egypt.
October 29, 2025. The Renaissance in the Upside-Down “Archives” World. Co-speaker with Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar, alongside Ana Roeschley, Rula Shahwan, Raymond Frogner, and Kirsten Thorpe, within the Archiving in Palestine panel, representing the Fighting Erasure Project at the International Archives Congress: ICA Barcelona 2025. Organized by the International Council on Archives (ICA). Barcelona, Spain.
October 8, 2025. Archiving as Resistance: Fighting Erasure and Creating Accountability for the Genocide. Co-speaker with Freja Howat and Alex Foley. Organized by the Palestine Interdisciplinary Research Network, University of Sussex. Online.
September 30, 2025. Our Stories, Our Archives. Co-Speaker with Fatme Charafeddine and Amani Rammal. Organized by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut.
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.

Media Coverage

Ṣilat Waṣel. (2026, July 27). Man yaḥmī dhākirat Lubnān? [Who Protects Lebanon’s Memory?]. View here.
Al-Akhbar. (2026, June 10). “Al-Janūb yuqāwim” al-maḥw [“The South Resists” Erasure]. View here.
Walsh, L. (2026, May 2). The rebellious past lives on in Bristol. Morning Star. View here. This is particularly strong independent coverage: Walsh identifies you as an archivist speaking from Lebanon and describes your work preserving endangered digital records in Gaza and Lebanon. (Morning Star)
Nemr, Z. (2026, March 11). Al-Arshafa fī zaman al-ibāda: Muḥārabat al-maḥw wa-istʿādat al-sardiyya [Archiving in a Time of Genocide: Fighting Erasure and Reclaiming the Narrative]. Ṣilat Waṣel. View here.
Al-Ghoul, A. (2026, January 21). “Archiving Gaza” anthology: A vivid record of life before the war. Qantara.de. View here. Arabic version. The Arabic original is dated January 16 and specifically discusses your contribution on social media and digital archiving. (Qantara)
Institute for Palestine Studies. (2026). Kay naʿūd ilā mustaqbalinā: Istiʿādat al-tārīkh fī kitāb “Arshafat Ghazza fī al-ḥāḍir” [So That We May Return to Our Future: Reclaiming History in Archiving Gaza in the Present]. View here.
Ḍiffat Thālitha. (2025, December 16). Arshafat Ghazza fī al-waqt al-ḥāḍir: Al-dhākira wa-al-thaqāfa wa-al-maḥw [Archiving Gaza in the Present: Memory, Culture and Erasure]. View here. The piece explicitly lists غادة دمشق among the contributors. (ضفة ثالثة)
Al-Wardi, W. (2025, December 13). “Arshafat Ghazza”: Sajjil qabla an yumḥā al-athar [“Archiving Gaza”: Record It Before the Trace Is Erased]. Al-Akhbar. View here. This is one of your stronger entries because it discusses your individual chapter rather than merely naming you; the text describes your contribution as an intervention in emerging digital-memory politics. (bahethcenter.net)
Al-ʿAlī, N. (2025, December 4). Arshafat Ghazza fī al-ḥāḍir: Tawthīq mashhad wa-huwa yakhtafī [Archiving Gaza in the Present: Documenting a Scene as It Disappears]. Al Jazeera Arabic. View here. Al Jazeera names you among the contributors and places your work in the section dealing with memory and cultural destruction. (الجزيرة نت)
Giugăl, A. (2025, September 26). Prăbușirea opticii imperiale? Gaza ca spațiu de rezistență epistemică [The Collapse of the Imperial Optic? Gaza as a Space of Epistemic Resistance]. Libertatea. View here.
Kendall Adams, G. (2025, June 19). Changing the record: Archives in the 21st century. Museums Journal. View here.
NextLB. (2025, April 18). Nadwa li-munāqashat riwāyat “Amr faẓīʿ yaḥṣul” li-Ziyād Kāj wa-tarjamatihā ilā al-Faransiyya fī al-Jāmiʿa al-Amīrkiyya [Seminar Discussing Ziad Kaj’s Novel Something Terrible Is Happening and Its French Translation at the American University]. View here.
The Network. (2025, April 11). Archives – Fighting Erasure. View here. This is legitimate professional media coverage, not merely an event listing: it identifies you as the webinar presenter and describes the substance of your work. (The Network)
Al-ʿArabī al-Jadīd. (2024, November 27). “Arshafat Ghazza fī al-ḥāḍir”: Al-tawthīq wa-muwājahat al-maḥw [Archiving Gaza in the Present: Documentation and Confronting Erasure]. View here.
The Peninsula. (2024, November 25). Qatar National Library backs initiative to protect Palestinian, Lebanese heritage. View here. It explicitly names Ghada Dimashk among the participants. (The Peninsula Newspaper)
Gulf Times. (2024, November 24). QNL backs initiative to preserve Palestinian, Lebanese heritage. View here.
Qatar News Agency. (2024, November 23). Maktabat Qaṭar al-Waṭaniyya tadʿam mubādara li-ḥimāyat al-turāth al-Filasṭīnī wa-al-Lubnānī min al-maḥw [Qatar National Library Supports an Initiative to Protect Palestinian and Lebanese Heritage from Erasure]. 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 [Qatar National Library Supports an Initiative to Protect Palestinian and Lebanese Heritage from Erasure]. 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). Against genocide: Mapping the future of Palestine, one archive at a time. View here.
Al-Akhbar. (2024, August 13). Arshīf al-muqāwama fī ẓill al-ibāda al-jamāʿiyya [Resistance Archives in the Shadow of Genocide]. 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.
Al-Shammarī, N. Ḥ. (2021, June 17). Al-ʿamal ʿan buʿd wa-miftāḥ al-taqārub al-ijtimāʿī ʿalā al-madā al-baʿīd [Remote Work and the Key to Long-Term Social Closeness]. Bshra. View here. The article directly attributes professional comments to you and identifies you as a cataloguer at the Lebanese National Library. (بشرى حياة)

Professional Coverage, Recognition & Intreviews

Archival Community for Palestine. (2025, March). Ghada Dimashk: Ṣawt al-turāth al-raqamī wa-ayqūnat al-arshafa al-ḥadītha [Ghada Dimashk: A Voice for Digital Heritage and an Icon of Modern Archiving]. View here. This is a genuine professional profile devoted specifically to you. (‏LinkedIn)
Ishizawa, A. (2021, November 25). 2020–2021 VIAF Council Meeting Report. National Diet Library of Japan. View here.
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.
Al-Marjiʿ al-Iliktrūnī lil-Maʿlūmātiyya. (2020, July 16). Daʿwa lil-mushāraka fī warsha ʿilmiyya dawliyya ḥawla al-tanmiya wa-al-takāmul bayna al-maktabāt [Invitation to Participate in an International Scientific Workshop on Development and Integration Among Libraries]. View here.
Qism al-Shuʾūn al-Fikriyya wa-al-Thaqāfiyya. (2017, February 16). Inʿiqād ūlā al-jalasāt al-baḥthiyya ḍimn faʿāliyāt al-multaqā al-ʿilmī al-thānī lil-fahrasa wa-al-taṣnīf [The First Research Session of the Second Scientific Forum for Cataloging and Classification]. View here.
Al-Kafeel. (2017, February 16). Coverage of the Second Scientific Forum for Indexing and Classification and the presentation of Ghada Dimashq. View here.
Al-Marjiʿ al-Iliktrūnī lil-Maʿlūmātiyya. (2015, October 7). Wafd nisawī rasmī min al-Maktaba al-Waṭaniyya al-Lubnāniyya yazūr Maktabat al-Rawḍa al-Ḥaydariyya al-Muṭahhara [Official Women’s Delegation from the Lebanese National Library Visits the Rawda al-Haydariyya Library]. 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.
Interview with Ghada Dimashk about BIBFRAME. (2014). Ḥiwārāt maʿa al-khubarāʾ [Conversations with Experts]. View here.

Scholarly Recognition, Citations & Acknowledgements

Ghaddar, J. J. (2025). Palestine as provenance: Archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon (Jabal Amil). Archival Science, 25. View here.
Jerusalem Quarterly. (2025). “Building a World from Letters: The Papers of Musa Yunis al-Husayni.” Issue 103. Acknowledges Ghada Dimashq in connection with archival assistance. View here.
Dalhousie University. (2025). Cataloguing Palestine: Investigating Cultural Imperialism… Graduate thesis discussing/referencing your professional work on cataloguing Palestine. View here.
ASJP. (2019). Scholarly article citing your earlier work, including your research concerning Creative Commons and knowledge access. View here.

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