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Dr. Zeidan Kafafi, YU president, met with Dr. Michel Mouton, director of the French Institute for Near East Studies in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, Dr. Falestin Naili, the Institute's official in Jordan, and Ms. Rawan Al-Homaimat, head of cooperation affairs at the French Embassy. During the meeting, the agreement, which was signed with the German Goethe Institut, the French Institute for the Near East Studies and the French Embassy in Amman was renewed to carry out a project on "Oral History in Jordan".

The agreement stipulates implementing a project on oral history in Jordan, funded by the German-French cultural center, the French Institute and the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with the University Agency of la Francophonie. The project includes collecting oral testimonies on the First World War period from people who heard stories about it, to be collected by students from Jordanian universities: The University of Jordan, Mutah University, Al Hussein bin Talal University, Yarmouk University and the Jordanian National Library.

The project aims at training students and specialists to research oral history. It also aims at establishing a group of young researchers, creating a sense of importance of cultural heritage among them, and providing them with the tools and expertise required for such kind of research, especially that oral testimonies are  main sources of history in Jordan as well as means of documenting and analyzing historical awareness of the social groups that experienced that period.

Under this agreement, students from participating universities are to be trained on oral history research by experts of anthropology and history, through several workshops and training sessions.

The signing of the agreement was attended by the dean of the faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Dr. Hani Al-Hayajneh, the director of Al Hussein bin Talal library, Dr. Omar Al Ghoul, the director of public relations and media, Mr. Mukhlis Al-Ibbini, and several faculty members.

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