Karen Exell: 3 books
Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula
Debates, Discourses and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities, and a way of placing the Arabian Peninsula states on the international map. Global, i.e. Western, heritage standards and practices have been utilised for the rapid...
by Karen Exell
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
* *Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula is dedicated to the recent and rapid high-profile development of museums in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the a number of the Arabian Peninsula states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and theUAE. These Gulf states are dynamically involved in...
Museums in Arabia
Transnational Practices and Regional Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Museum activity has, in recent years, undergone major and rapid development in the Arabian Peninsula, with the regeneration of existing museums as well as the establishment of new ones. Alongside such rapid expansion, questions are inevitably raised as to the new challenges museums face in this region...