WMF’s Exhibition Doing Well. Don’t Worry in Beirut Hosted by Asfari Institute and Knowledge Workshop in Lebanon
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The Knowledge Workshop (KW) in Lebanon opened the Women and Memory Forum’s (WMF) exhibition Doing Well. Don’t Worry: Short Tales of Women’s Work and Mobility at Exode Gallery in Achrafieh, Beirut, from 8 to 18 December 2017. The exhibition was organized within the framework of the cooperation between the WMF, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, and the Women and Gender Studies (WGS) Initiative at the American University in Beirut (AUB).
Doing Well. Don’t Worry 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.
