We invite storytellers, artists, researchers, activists, and community members to submit their stories and materials that contribute to building collective archives from the Global South.
The MENA Archival Lab is interested in works that engage with archiving as a living practice — where the Lab acts as an interactive space; preserving memory, resisting erasure, and documenting lived realities across generations.
Submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Art as archival practice
Creative works that document histories, memories, and identities through visual art, performance, writing, sound, or multimedia. - Social movements in relation to collective memory
Stories, testimonies, and materials that document struggles, resistance, organizing, and community-led change. - Life in displacement zones
Narratives and records from refugee camps, occupied territories, borderlands, or communities living under occupation, genocide and in forced migration. - Entries of everyday life
Personal histories, family collections, oral histories, photographs, letters, or objects that carry memory. - Alternative and community archives
Grassroots, informal, or non-institutional approaches to preserving knowledge and history.
We also welcome submissions that do not fit neatly into these categories. If your work engages with memory, trauma, documentation, and the act of archiving lived experience, we want to hear from you.
Your story matters.
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