Participating in a workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies

Raed Eshnaiwer, the researcher at Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, participated in a workshop organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) about the electronic archiving for the sources of the Palestinian social history. Mr. Eshnaiwer talked about the Palestinian archive in Birzeit University, he talked about the working mechanisms in the project, data collection, categorizing and presenting them online. He also talked about the difficulties that face the project.

Many local and international intellectuals, who have long experience with the archives, participated in the workshop. The workshop come up with many recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity to establish an archival network, in which all participants coordinate together in order to get the best archival base.