Accomplishments

Since launching, Diarna’s international team of volunteers has:

 

• Documented over 1,250 sites from Morocco to Iran and beyond

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• Amassed thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of video

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• Conducted 30 research expeditions (most recently to Kurdistan);

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• Presented at academic conferences (Association of Jewish Studies, Center for Jewish History) and in classrooms (“Jewish Cultures in the Middle East” at Harvard University’s Middle East Studies Center);

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• Launched D’fina, an online exhibit dedicated to uncovering the buried treasure of Jewish Morocco and the country’s hidden Holocaust history;

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• Launched Ezyara, an online exhibit focusing on the Jewish communities in the Kurdish region of Iraq;

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• Exhibited at public venues (“Mémoires AIU: Les écoles qui nous a façonnés” at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris); and

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• Written for or been featured in scholarly (Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World) and popular (MyJewishLearning.com) publications.