Interview: Egyptian Heritage with Heba abd el Gawad

History, Voices, and Representation

Heba Abd el Gawad is an exhibition curator, public outreach specialist and researcher in Egyptian heritage within museum contexts. She is the postdoctoral researcher for the project ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt’ at the Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, in addition to many other important works. Heba joins the History of Egypt Podcast to discuss public outreach, museum communication and accessibility, and the cultural heritage of Egypt and its people.

Social Media: The Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project on Twitter and Facebook

Comics: Project partnership with Egyptian comic artists producing Egyptian comic strips and graphic novels to confront colonial legacies of ancient Egyptian displays in Western museums, you can check out our interview with Digital Hammurabi and our comic artists’ discussion panel for Everyday Orientalism. You can also find many of the comics on Heba’s Twitter account (above).

Fayoum Human Remains: Your mummies, their ancestors webinar on the ethics of displaying and researching human remains in partnership with Egypt Exploration Society and Everyday Orientalism.

Project Partnerships: For the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage partnership with the Egypt Exploration Society to unpack its colonial legacy check this blog entry. Project partnership with National Museum in Scotland check this English webpage  and Arabic here.

Media Coverage: Our project as Arab leading for Digital Comics during COVID 19  https://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2020/08/arabic-comics-reach-a-wider-audience-through-digital-projects/

Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com