Daas | Zaynab Kriouech

DAAS in Sharjah - 2025

Zaynab Kriouech

How can decoloniality be practical through storytelling?

Biography

Zaynab Kriouech reflects on memory, inheritance, and the struggle against erasure through the lens of her Amazigh heritage. Departing from the rooftop where her grandmother wove carpets, she reclaims personal and ancestral practices as acts of decolonization. The session, held on the rooftop of Beit Al Shamsi, draws on family conversations and embroidery to open a dialogue on what it means to inherit fragmented legacies and how collective memory can be sustained as resistance.

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Zaynab

During my master’s degree back in 2020, my project about the site was meant to explore how digital tools can help us engage with cultural heritage sites differently. It was about using digital media as a storytelling tool to provoke dialogue with institutions—not just accepting one authoritative voice. I chose a house in Dougga archaeological site in Tunisia.

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DAAS in Sharjah (2025)

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