The first edition of MEPPI took place in Beirut in January 2009. Institutions from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria participated in nine days of workshops animated by Nora Kennedy (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Debra Hess-Norris (University of Delaware). The schedule for this pilot workshop…
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative’s (MEPPI) second course opened on the 11th of November 2012, gathering 16 participants from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Iran and the UAE. The course began with an 8-day workshop, generously hosted by New York University, Abu Dhabi…
The production of new written material and the translation of existing texts into Arabic is part of a broader aim to disseminate knowledge about photography preservation in particular and cultural heritage in general throughout the Middle East and North Africa region. This is being carried…
Since 2009 MEPPI has held three photograph preservation courses aimed at training collection personnel in the region. To date MEPPI has trained more than 60 professionals representing institutional and private collections in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia,…
An advanced, eight-day workshop was held in June 2018 at the Monroe Hotel in Beirut, as part of MEPPI’s Extended Phase. This workshop, which hosted 8 participants from 6 countries, served as a pilot project, enabling MEPPI to assess and build on its outcomes and…
10 participants attended the Digitization of Photographs workshop, consisting of a four-day workshop that took place at the Arab Image Foundation between 21-24 March 2017. MEPPI Phase II workshops include a series of two Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs, and three Digitization of Photographs workshops offered between…
13 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the second Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs workshop, an advanced workshop part of MEPPI Phase II. The workshop took place at the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc on 10-21 October 2016. MEPPI Phase II workshops include a…
18 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the first and second Digitization of Photographs workshops, both advanced workshops part of MEPPI Phase II. The two four-day workshops took place, back to back, at the Arab Image Foundation on 10-13 May, and then on 16-19 May…
16 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the first Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs workshop, an advanced workshop part of MEPPI Phase II workshops. It took place at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut, on 9-20 November 2015. MEPPI Phase…
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative held its third course in photograph preservation gathering 17 participants, which began in January 2014 with an 8-day workshop hosted by Darat Al Funun in Amman. MEPPI courses are designed to provide basic theoretical and practical training in the care of…
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI) Beirut 2011, held its first course in photograph preservation co-ordinated by the Arab Image Foundation (AIF), the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute. This was the first of a series of three, 8-day…
Caring for Digital Material. Digital Preservation. Planning Digital Projects. Personal Archives. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access.
