In cooperation with the Women and Memory Forum, the Knowledge Workshop in Lebanon and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and  Citizenship at the American University of Beirut held a workshop on the sidelines of the exhibition “Doing Well, Don’t Worry.”: Short Tales of Women’s Work and Mobility”, run in Beirut from 8th to 18th October 2017.

The workshop, which was held at the American University of Beirut, hosted a number of speakers from the American University in Cairo, the Women’s and Memory Forum in Egypt, academics, curators and artists from Lebanon in the aim of opening a collective discussion on oral history and the various documentation tools and methodologies that interfere with the compilation of women’s stories or the work of women in archiving History.

“Doing Well, Don’t Worry.” exhibition introduces glimpses into the lives of several women – women, who have worked and moved as doctors, maids, actresses, students, accountants, filmmakers, embroiderers, teachers, tour guides, artists, and as mothers, daughters, mentors and friends. They live in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Denmark, yet their lives invite us to travel across many more spaces, peoples, and times, and inspire us to rethink familiar meanings and assumptions about women, mobility and work.
This exhibition is the result of collaboration between the Women and Memory Forum (EG), Women’s Museum in Denmark (DK), Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute (EG/DK), Anthropology Unit and the Cynthia Nelson Institute from the American University in Cairo (EG), the Tiraz Centre (JO) and the Knowledge Workshop (LE). It could, however, not have been done without the help from students and young professionals in the fields of social sciences, architecture, museums and graphic design who lent their time and passion to the project.

To watch the sessions on the American University of Beirut YouTube channel: