Preliminary Programme

The human rights convention provides for the need to respect and protect those who work in hospitals during the war. It is regrettable that during the conflict these agreements are violated,doctors and the nurses.
this paper will study the life story of Eva Hamd Sweden nurse work in Tal Izater Palestinian refuge Camp inCivil war in Lebanon in 1976 .
The importance of the study :
Shed light on the humanitarian role of the leftist volunteers from Europe and their suffering during the massacre of Tel Zaatar during the civil war in Lebanon in 1976
Research Methodolog :

Oral History Curriculum Where interviews will be conducted with nurse Eva Hamad and her Palestinian friends who are still alive (Show less)

We would like to discuss the evolution of our work in the AFOHSA (Oral History Archive for the Social History of Asturias) from our origins until nowadays. Whose memories are we collecting know and whose memories did we start collecting in the beginning? From the stress about collecting all those memories from before from Spanish Civil war while all witness were alive till the combination of hurry and different projects with different voices.
How have we been working with the sources in the archive, from collecting, to archiving, going through diffusion, collaborating with other researchers from other fields to making audio-visuals, books and films. What have we learned through


those experiences, what challenges, problems and goals have we had?
We want to look back to our different projects and realize how much we have been working with social movements, how much we have been involved in social projects and if that work is very different from the one we do with the academy.
Finally, we would like to connect all these analyzes with our work teaching oral history. How does our projects, our interviews, interfere in our teaching.
In other words, we would like to look back into the History of the AFOHSA and have a global perspective of the challenges we have had (related to the items above) and how we have solved the different problems we have found in our travel with the Oral History. (Show less)

The Gulf War had a transformative effect on Saudi Arabia and its society. The war brought major ideological changes and allowed its citizens for the first time to voice critique and concern about economic and social problems. Many studies have highlighted the diverse reactions and dilemmas of Saudi people from the crumbling notion of Arab unity to the emergence of the United States as the savior from the evil of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Although there is a plethora of studies about the Gulf War none of them have investigated how ordinary Saudi citizens experienced the war with all its implications.
The project describes how an oral history project was created for undergraduate female students in Saudi Arabia to explore the Gulf War and its impact on their families and on the society. Historically, oral histories – an important pillar of Arabian society - were used to transfer significant tribal information, customs, traditions and stories from one generation to the next. Since the discovery of oil, the kingdom has undergone dramatic societal and lifestyle transformations resulting in the loss of some traditions, namely oral history. Consequently, younger generations know very little about their own history and heritage. For more than thirty years, collecting oral histories has been recognized as an effective teaching strategy in the West. Although oral history projects are very rare in Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, this project is trying to access familial stories and by using oral history methodologies to reconnect students to their past while facilitating a unique learning experience. (Show less)