The Moving Stories project envisages an ambitious programme of publications, all of which will either be made available on this page in full or linked to via hyperlinks from here.
The Project’s Principal Investigator, Professor John-Paul Ghobrial, is working on a monograph with the provisional title Moving Stories: Middle Eastern Sectarianism and its Publics. In addition to this monograph, the PI plans to write essays that explore broad themes related to the use of family papers and private archives in the writing of Middle Eastern history.
Each of the five Research Associates appointed to the project will undertake to write either a monograph or a series of articles to publish their findings and observations deriving from their work on the project. Interim short articles will be posted on this site on the Research Updates page.
As the project proceeds into 2024, the core team will be enhanced by the addition of guest researchers. These guest researchers will carry out targeted research into areas of particular relevance to the project and they will share informal reports of their research on the project's website as well as at project events and workshops.
As you may have seen on the Resources page, a key output of the Moving Stories project will be a new Sourcebook in Belief and Belonging in the Global Middle East. This highly ambitious project will pull together the multiple strands of the team’s research, bringing to its readers primary sources and archival documents that are as rare and hard to reach as they are illuminating. The range of scholarship shared between the team and our guest researchers enable us to work with sources in languages as wide-ranging as Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Greek, Syriac, English, French, Spanish and Italian.
As we have said elsewhere on this site, we are very grateful for any help that visitors to this site may be able to give us in reaching members of your community who may have treasured family documents that deserve to reach a wider readership. Please see the Contact page for details.
