Why we document stories
Oral histories are recordings of individuals telling stories about their lives and about events they have witnessed and…
Library: Tarikhi, The Platform of Arab World Voices
Tarikhi (Arabic for “My History”) is a platform for the dissemination and promotion of recorded interviews with and…
Collection: Migration & Identity
Has how you define yourself changed over the past decade? How has the conflict impacted your sense of…
Collection: Multi-religious & ethnic cooperation
Sharq.Org is, in 2021, engaged in the documentation of projects implemented in the Arab world in 2020 that…
Stories of Migration & Belonging
Anecdotes that highlight the value of connecting with and embracing others
Collection: Peaceful Coexistence in the Diaspora
A team of researchers in six different countries conducted and recorded interviews with Syrians and locals in a bid to…
Collection: Syrian Histories
A collection of over 120 interviews with Syrians about life and society in Syria before 2011
Collection: Lebanon Livelihoods
Interviews with Lebanese & Palestinians about employment and entrepreneurship aimed at informing research into economic challenges and opportunities.
42 Years of Oppression in Libya
Personal accounts of human rights abuses in Gaddafi's Libya
Story: Ilham Dabboub, Libya
Nursery head Ilham Dabboub was three years old when her father, Omar Ali Dabboub, was first imprisoned in 1973. He was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured until the day he was hanged on 7 April 1977.