Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life

Diarna.org (“Our Homes” in Judeo-Arabic) explores Middle Eastern Jewish life through the prism of physical location by digitizing individual sites and memories.

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

“[I]n many cases, Diarna’s virtual records are all that stand between these centuries-old treasures & total oblivion.... [Diarna] has the power to change the very nature of how we understand the past”~Dara Horn, @SmithsonianMag
Join the race against time:
https://t.co/PeidV0RW5g

[Isaac Choua @ChouaIsaac]

📜Learn about the Synagogues' History from @DiarnaProject :

https://t.co/aLLr3oalRW

📰Updates regarding the Synagogues :
https://t.co/go5wYaX2Av

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Shocking photos from Khenchela, Algeria show a mummified arm strewn on a street, where children allegedly played with it. The remains are from the now-closed "mixed" (Jewish & Christian) cemetery Locals protest disrespecting the dead as violation of Islam.
https://t.co/mSSZCbPR51

[Jewish Language Project @JewishLanguages]

Thanks to our documentation specialist Sam Miller for today's Fun Fact, and to David Yedidia for info about Urmia. You can learn more about the Kalimiyan Synagogue and the Iranian Jewish community at @DiarnaProject: https://t.co/3wCJsNpOm9
@HUCJIR

[UBC Public Humanities @UBC_PH]

Whether by persecution or migration, too many once-thriving Jewish communities are gone. Hear about 2 geo-mapping projects resisting such erasures: @DiarnaProject geo-museum, & Mnemonics, which promotes the formation of inclusive memory culture in Ukraine. https://t.co/mUw3wUxY84

[Samuel Spinner @SamuelSpinner]

@onthemainline @DiarnaProject beat you to it:
https://t.co/HU9tHnnA5R

[NGA @NGA_GEOINT]

Tomorrow @DefenseIntel, @drum10thmtn, @NCCHAC, @DiarnaProject, @Harvard, and @lborouniversity will present at the World-Wide Human #Geography Data (WWHGD) Cultural Heritage & #HumanGeography webinar!

Register here 👉 https://t.co/RiZxlNuNLA #CulturalPropertyProtection

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِن جَآءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌۢ بِنَبَإٍۢ فَتَبَيَّنُوٓاْ أَن تُصِيبُواْ قَوْمًۢا بِجَهَٰلَةٍۢ فَتُصْبِحُواْ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَٰدِمِينَ
@yusefren @saudibus222 @moatazmatar @aalodah #الاخوان_المسلمين #ديارنا

[Conf Of Presidents @Conf_of_Pres]

@MWLOrg_en @AmericanSephard /2 ..in commemoration of #Kristallnacht's 81st anniversary, @Conf_of_Pres with Beitenu: The Atlas of Jewish Life/@DiarnaProject present for the 1st time online documentation on 1000+ Jewish sites attacked by the #Nazis https://t.co/ZglRC7uKhp #Shoah #Holocaust #WWII #NeverAgain

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

"Chrystie Sherman, a photographer for Diarna, an online museum of Jewish sites in the Islamic world, once told me how she tracked down the last Jewish business owner in Syria, a millenniums-old Jewish community that once numbered in the tens of thousands...."~@DaraHorn/@nytimes

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

"Nostalgic stories about Last Jews mask a much larger and darker reality about societies that were once ethnic and religious mosaics," writes @DaraHorn. https://t.co/sFtR2CznJm

[Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC) @gulfjewish]

Check out this map of Jewish heritage sites in the GCC from @DiarnaProject
https://t.co/cvH3FQv21f

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

@AzherRubaie Ruth (née Rejwan) Pearl, the mother of @WSJ reporter @DanielPearlFNDN (who was murdered by Al Qaeda in Pakistan), is an Iraqi Jew. She survived the Farhud and now lives in California with her husband, @yudapearl.
https://t.co/zLFPJKvM5O

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Explore Gulf Jewish historical sites, incl 🇸🇦#SaudiArabia's "Mountain of the Jews," 🇴🇲#Oman's Tomb of Job, 🇧🇭#Bahrain's synagogue,& 🇰🇼#Kuwait's Jewish cemetery via Diarna's preliminary #GCC exhibit in honor of @gulfjewish (#AGJC)! @hnonoo75 @sajwani
https://t.co/SZeHaeHrPk

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Thank you to the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (#AGJC/@gulfjewish) for recommending Diarna as the resource for the "History of the Jews in the Arab World"! Since 2008, Diarna has documented 2,800+ MENA synagogues, cemeteries, schools, & shrines.
https://t.co/dcm1XXEjDy

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Diarna researchers have documented Jewish historical sites in three #GCC countries: the Kingdom of #SaudiArabia🇸🇦, Kingdom of #Bahrain🇧🇭, & Sultanate of #Oman🇴🇲. https://t.co/mMLtEzb3TM. In #UAE🇦🇪 an old Jewish gravestone was uncovered
#AGJC @gulfjewish @RabbiElieAbadie @hnonoo75

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

“In the absence of a Jewish community capable of defending [the Hamadan, Iran Shrine to Esther & Mordechai], a U.S. org called Diarna (Judeo-Arabic for ‘Our Homes’) has decided the only option is to restore the site—virtually.” ~Sohrab Ahmari/@tabletmag
https://t.co/8UrI0fwGxk

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Little known outside of Iran, secrecy, indeed a double secret, shrouds the Hamadan shrine to Esther & Mordechai, the heroes of the Jewish holiday of #Purim for saving Jews throughout the Persian Empire from genocide. #purim2021
https://t.co/3TChwyy622

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

در نزدیکی میدان امام خمینی در همدان، زیارتگاه دو شخصیت مذهبی به نام های استر و مردخای قرار دارد که از قهر مان های کلیدی واقعه ی پوریم هستند. پوریم یکی از اعیاد مذهبی یهودیان می باشد که به مناسبت جلوگیری ار کشتار دسته جمعی یهودیان
#Purim #purim2021
https://t.co/qrMCUtJSgw

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

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[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

Why is Fariborz Moradzadeh (7Dorim) "trying to provide a virtual 3-D tour of the Esther & Mordechai mausoleum" in 2021? #Diarna's Erin Okabe-Jawdat created the model in 2011 & pilgrims have been visiting online for a decade.
@KarmelMelamed/@jdforward
https://t.co/SME7ld9uMt

[Karmel Melamed @KarmelMelamed]

It's Purim... a celebratory holiday for world Jewry & especially important for Iranian Jews whose ancestry can be traced back to before the story of Purim. My latest piece on 1 Iranian Jew trying to save the Jewish community's history and heritage online👇https://t.co/11uwr17yh5

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

In honor of the recently launched Association of Jewish Communities of the Gulf (AJCG/@gulfjewish), the Diarna Geo-Museum proudly presents a preliminary exhibit of Jewish historical sites in GCC countries, incl 🇸🇦🇧🇭🇴🇲🇰🇼
(Pictured: Khaybar, KSA)
@hnonoo75
https://t.co/SZeHaeHrPk

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

@AlcovyE The next best thing is to travel there via https://t.co/sKri5QWc54 https://t.co/OxbI4YC4KG
Originally a Jewish shrine, disputes about the holy occupant(s)/ownership of Baghdad's "Tomb of Joshua" led to persecution of the Iraqi-Jewish community in the 19th c. & during the Farhud.

[Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life @DiarnaProject]

@janearraf @nermeenalmufti @ivorprickett Originally a Jewish shrine, disputes about the holy occupant(s)/ownership of Baghdad's "Tomb of Joshua" led to persecution of the Iraqi-Jewish community in the 19th century & during the Farhud. https://t.co/OxbI4YC4KG