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Re-imagining Museums

Re-imagining Museums is a pilot project in collaboration with “Semsemia Tours“. The project’s long-term goal is to connect public museums to their contemporary communities and open them as active cultural spaces promoting civil participation. The project aspires to create alternative visiting itineraries and storylines for the same objects currently displayed in 2 museums in Egypt. Those itineraries should be more critical than the current ones and should emphasise on the links between those collections and contemporary reality. We will be using Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods to study the museum’s collections and work with the local communities and stakeholders to produce alternative itineraries. At the end of the pilot phase, the alternative itineraries will be available online for visitors, and they will be included in the regular Semsemia Tours to those museums.

This research project is part of the “Tandem Amwaj programme“, which is a civil society-led project co-designed and implemented by 4 partner organisations (Tandem programme alumni) in the MENA region working on creating safe and creative environments for independent narrative discourses. By supporting culture-led engagement actions and actors, this program aims at promoting civil society participation in local development practices, growing a space for different forms of expression and a sense of belonging to be performed despite the pressuring contexts (political and economic) across Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

Shaimaa Atef

Organizational Culture Practices in the Egyptian Organizations

Our inspiration

Through our work with different Egyptian organizations, we found several promising practices concerning how organizations are working hard to enforce a positive and empowering organizational culture. Yet, when we tried to learn more about these practices, we found minimal efforts to document these practices in an informative way that could serve them in their development process or as a guide to other organizations.

Our response

Due to a lack of documentation and accessibility of different national practices related to organizational culture, we were encouraged to start this research project. In this project titled “Organizational Culture Practices in the Egyptian Organizations,” we aim to document existing practices of organizational culture within Egyptian organizations. The project will document organizations’ values and related sets of behaviours and actions. The project will spotlight the creation process of the organizational culture and the reason behind choosing every single value. The project also will define the reflection of organizational culture on the different work processes: recruitment, assessing, and orienting new team members.

The project aims at collecting several practices, documenting them in a detailed way, and making them available to different organizations.

The call is for two categories;

1) Organizations: If you are an organization that has good practices related to organizational culture, please write to us answering the question, “Why do you think you have a good organizational culture?”. We will communicate with you afterwards to agree on the process details of documenting your practice and making it available online.

2) Individuals: If you are an individual who would like to contribute to this project by nominating an organization or taking part in documenting one of the good practices, please write to us answering the question “Why would you like to take part in this project?”. We will communicate with you afterwards regarding the next steps of orienting you on the used methodology and techniques

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Amira Hossam

Directory of Arabic Resources and Content on Youth Development

Our inspiration

We, development practitioners, always complain of a lack of available resources and content in Arabic across development fields. However we know new content is being produced and developed every day, but unfortunately, not all of it is circulated, accessible, or even known to everyone.

We are inspired by a 15-year-old annotated bibliography of available Arabic resources in Youth Development developed by Sarah Sabry. At that time, this bibliography was a significant contribution that informed youth development practitioners about available resources and tools to advance their work and projects. Unfortunately, Since then, there have been no similar efforts to map such resources and content that were developed in Arabic, as far as we know.

Our response

In response to that, we aim to develop a regular annual directory of published resources and content in Arabic, which includes all relevant research studies, academic articles, action guides, training manuals, project reports, opinion articles, and reflective pieces. We endeavour that the directory enhances practitioners’ access to Arabic resources and content in the youth development field.

Such a directory will be the result of a collaborative and crowdsourced research effort, calling development practitioners and organizations on an annual basis to contribute by mapping existing resources and content, either developed by them or others in their networks.

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Mohamed Yassein

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