In Search of a Lost History

Misconceptions of East-West encounters

and the construction of history

a project by

Charlotte Bank

supported by

The Danish Institute in Damascus

How has a questionable academic tradition in history writing influenced Western perception of the Arab world? How has it influenced the way we see the Other?

Is it possible to retrieve a different history from archaeological remains?

This project will explore images and their construction, imagination and reality of religious and cultural co-existence.

It is inspired by the many long conversations I shared with Rami Farah (Syria) on the subject of representation and Orientalism.