Yara Abbas

Biography

Yara is working on research projects with artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahmeh and the Palestinian Museum. She intends to pursue further study in due course.

Previously Yara was a research assistant at the Palestinian Museum, for one of the Museum’s projects, Palestinian Journeys, Yara focused on audiovisual material that covered events and personalities from the history of Palestine from the past two hundred years. She also conducted oral history interviews, searched through documents and newspapers using online digital archives, reviewed exploratory research done by colleagues and organised the files and folders of the project, amongst other responsibilities.

At the British Museum
During her time on the International Training Programme in 2016, Yara was based in the Middle East Department. Her UK Partner museum was Glasgow Museums.

In 2016, participants were asked to develop a proposal for an Asahi Shimbun Display – a temporary exhibition in Room 3 at the British Museum – based around a single ‘spotlight’ object.  Yara’s exhibition project proposal was entitled General Views: From Bethany to al-Eizariya.

Yara’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Barakat Trust.

Legacy Projects
In 2020, Yara attended the International Training Programme’s series of online subject specialist sessions. Yara attended:
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