Please join MEF for a webinar with Jason Guberman today at 1pm EDT!
The Middle East Forum cordially invites you to a webinar:
Racing Against Time: Documenting Jewish Sites in the Middle East
with Jason Guberman
Since the expulsion of nearly all Jews from of Muslim-majority countries over the past 75 years, most Jewish sites (schools, cemeteries, synagogues, shrines, and other structures) were abandoned, left without caretakers, and decayed. In “a race against time,” the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life has documented cataloged, often covertly, some 2,800 remains through digital mapping technology, traditional scholarship, and field research. Warming ties between Israel and several Muslim countries ease the work of Diarna (Arabic, our homes), even Saudi Arabia. But severe challenges remain. How has warm peace helped Diarna’s work and what more can be done in countries such as Iraq and Yemen unlikely soon to experience a shift in attitude?
Friday, October 16, 2020 1:00-1:15p.m. EDT
Online:
Click here to join just before 1 pm EDT or Webinar ID: 813 8927 8593 Passcode: 094671 By Phone: US: +16465588656,,81389278593#,,094671#,,#
Jason Guberman, a social entrepreneur, is the founding coordinator of the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life, which was a 2017 cover story in Newsweek and profiled in the June 2020 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine.
A summa cum laude graduate of Sacred Heart University, Mr. Guberman was named to Connecticut Magazine’s “40 under 40” and to the NY Jewish Week’s “36 under 36.” He has presented Diarna at an array of conferences and institutions, including the US State Department/Moroccan Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema’s 1st Regional Conference on the Preservation of Cultural and Religious Heritage, Harvard’s Middle East Studies Center, and Stanford University’s Digital Humanities Center. Mr. Guberman also serves as Executive Director of the American Sephardi Federation, a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government.
