The Division of Tradition and Tourism—Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) and Zayed Nationwide Museum have chosen Zayed Nationwide Museum Analysis Fund recipients.
Launched in 2023, the Zayed Nationwide Museum Analysis Fund helps analysis into the UAE’s tradition and historical past, preserving the legacy of the nation’s late founder, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Ten researchers have been chosen from 77 candidates from 19 international locations. The recipients embrace researchers from the UAE, Oman, Egypt, India, China, the US, the UK, Australia, and Poland.
A panel of consultants, together with representatives from the Division of Tradition and Tourism—Abu Dhabi and Zayed Nationwide Museum—awarded grants from the AED1 million Fund. Tasks have been chosen primarily based on analysis methodology, expertise, outcomes, and relevance to the museum’s mandate.
The Fund’s recipients will cowl analysis areas that span Sheikh Zayed’s influence on the UAE’s society and tradition, hyperlinks between India and the Arabian Peninsula throughout the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, the untold tales of girls and their function in commerce in Arabia, oral histories of the UAE, and the deep archaeological historical past of the UAE.
His Excellency Mohammed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Division of Tradition and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, mentioned: “Honouring the timeless values of our nation’s founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, whose enduring instance continues to information us at the moment, the chosen initiatives will assist the creation of an in depth physique of scholarly works on the traditions of the UAE by a world lens with various views. Contributing to our intangible tradition and unlocking potentialities for upcoming generations, the Analysis Fund underscores Zayed Nationwide Museum’s goals of advancing data, inclusive public engagement and harnessing the facility of analysis and science to deepen our understanding of the UAE’s layered historical past.”
The Recipients and Their Tasks Are:
● Dr Mohamed Almarri (UAE), Assistant Professor of Inhabitants Genomics Faculty of Medication on the Mohamed Bin Rashed College of Medication and Well being Sciences, with the undertaking identify: ‘Reconstructing the inhabitants historical past and illuminating prehistorical contacts of the United Arab Emirates utilizing historical DNA’.
● Maryam Al Shehhi (UAE), UAE Everlasting Mission to the UN, USA Safety Council Analysis Intern, with undertaking identify: ‘E-book: Music / Sound of the Shihuh’.
● Dr Suhaib Alam (India), Assistant Professor on the Division of Arabic Language at Jamia Millia Islamia, with the undertaking identify: ‘The journey throughout India seeking hyperlinks between India and the Arabian Peninsula – 1820-1971’.
● Dr Ran Zhang (China), Assistant Professor on the Division of Archaeology at Durham College, with the undertaking identify: ‘Chinese language ceramic finds from the Hussein Assortment’.
● Dr Seth MN Priestman (UK), Honorary Analysis Fellow at Durham College and Ceramics and Archaeological Finds Specialist, with the undertaking identify: ‘Exploring the interpretive worth of Nineteenth-Twentieth century European factory-made ceramics within the UAE by collections-based analysis’.
● Professor Lesley Gregoricka (USA), Professor of Anthropology on the College of South Alabama, with the undertaking identify: ‘Mobility and shifting cultural panorama among the many early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Al Ain Oasis’.
● Professor Ali El Keblawy (Egypt), a professor on the Division of Utilized Biology on the College of Sharjah, is engaged on a undertaking titled ‘Utilizing native crops to revitalise UAE cultural heritage at Zayed Nationwide Museum’.
● Dr Agnieszka Lic (Poland) is an assistant Professor on the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures on the Polish Academy of Sciences, and her undertaking is known as the ‘Jumeirah Analysis Mission’.
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