Speakers

Dr Hayat Qattat Al Qarmazy
Director of Culture Department and Heritage Protection Program, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, Tunisia

Biography

 Hayat Qattat Al Qarmazy is the Director of the Department of Culture and Heritage Protection Program of the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science. She has a Ph.D. in history and anthropology. She became responsible for archaeological and historical research at the National Institute for Heritage and the Director of the Museum of Popular Customs and Traditions of the City of Tunisia 2002–2006. Hayat Qattat Al Qarmazy was a professor at the University of Zaituna 2001–2002, and she is an instructor at the Higher Institute of Heritage Professions in Tunisia. She has several publications, such as: Traditional Dress Icons Djerbi, Africa Magazine, Issue 14, Traditional Embroidery and Ornaments in Moknine, Tinis Magazine, Issues 7,8 and Traditional Carpets: Legacy in Memory, Cultural Life Magazine, Issue 185. She also published a book entitled: “Arabs in Recent Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Era: An Anthropological Reading”.

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