WMF’s Exhibition Doing Well. Don’t Worry at Aswan International Women’s Film Festival
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The Women and Memory Forum (WMF) opened its exhibition Doing Well. Don’t Worry: Short Tales of Women’s Work and Mobility in Aswan during the period from 21 to 26 February 2019, within the activities of Aswan International Women’s Film Festival (AIWFF). The exhibition came as part of the WMF’s work towards establishing the first woman’s museum in Egypt and the Middle East.
The exhibition is the result of the collaboration between the Women and Memory Forum (WMF), the Women’s Museum in Denmark, the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI), the Anthropology Unit at the American University in Cairo (AUC), the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies (IGWS) at the AUC, Tiraz in Jordan, and the Knowledge Workshop in Lebanon. In addition, students and young professionals in the fields of social sciences, architecture, museums, and graphic design contributed to organizing the exhibition.
Doing Well. Don’t Worry displayed glimpses from the lives of the women who moved and worked as medical professionals, tour guides, domestic workers, teachers, students, accountants, filmmakers, actresses, artists, seamstresses, and needleworkers, as well as mothers, daughters, friends, mentors, and advisors for other women. These women live in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Denmark. Their lives invite us to travel across multiple spaces, peoples, and times, as they inspire us to rethink the familiar meanings and assumptions about women, mobility, and work.
