by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Exhibitions, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
CrossRoads is happy to announce the release of our short documentary ‘Frank Scholten – Photographing Palestine’. Frank Scholten was a Dutch photographer who travelled through Palestine from 1921-23. His extensive collection of photos numbers upwards...
by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Exhibitions, Sary Zananiri
Sary Zananiri will be giving a talk in response to the exhibition Trembling Landscapes on 13th October at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. The lecture will accompany a screening of Jack Shaheen’s Reel Bad Arabs. It will think about the geo-political...
by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Conferences attended, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
CrossRoads’ Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri will attend the international conference People, Cultures, Ideas and Religion within and across empires: Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean in the axis Asia Minor, Cyprus, Egypt, 19th-20th centuries....
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | CrossRoads Event, Exhibitions, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) was due to open its doors to the small photography exhibit Frank Scholten: Archaeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Land’ in April. Since the organisers, Leiden University and the RMO, have had to temporarily close, researchers Karène...
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | Archival work, CrossRoads Event, Sary Zananiri
Mapping the Mandate: Frank Scholten in the ‘Holy Lands’ is a pilot project that, in conjunction with the digitisation of the NINO’s Frank Scholten collection, financed by NINO and Leiden University Libraries (2020-2021), is building a user-friendly interface that...
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | CrossRoads Event, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
Due to COVID-19, event postponed. CrossRoads is happy to announce the provisional program for the upcoming conference ‘Vocabularies of Tourism: Language, Photography & Tourism in Palestine (1898-1948)’. You can download it here. This conference...
