Visiting Speaker Event with Dr Hana Sleiman

Hana Sleiman is Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh. She researches the history of historiography in the Levant, with a focus on archive building and record keeping in the twentieth century. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2021). She sits on the Endangered Archives Programme’s International Advisory Panel and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. She was formerly Special Collections Librarian at the American University of Beirut Archives, where she co-led the Palestinian Oral History Archive and was part of the team archiving the papers of Constantine Zurayq. She is currently curating a station on Dar al-Fata al-Arabi at the Palestinian museum permanent exhibition.