Diarna ("Our Homes" in Judeo-Arabic), explores Jewish history through theprism of physical location by digitizing individual sites and memories. In three years, the project has documented over 650 sites from Morocco to Iran, amassed thousands of photographs and videos, conducted 15 research expeditions, been featured in popular (Haaretz) and scholarly (Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World) publications, presented at academic conferences (Association of Jewish Studies, Center for Jewish History), and partnered with Wellesley College, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People, and Yad Ben-Zvi.
For "accomplish[ing] so much so quickly" and delivering "a huge impact for each dollar invested," Diarna has twice been recognized as one of the 50 most innovative Jewish projects in North America by the Slingshot Fund
Driven by a team with diverse backgrounds and outlooks, the project eschews politics to focus on collecting factual information.
Diarna ("Our Homes" in Judeo-Arabic), explores Jewish history through theprism of physical location by digitizing individual sites and memories. In three years, the project has documented over 650 sites from Morocco to Iran, amassed thousands of p...
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