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Ayad Al-Ani

is a associated professor extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a board member of the German-Arab Association and associated member of the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin. He was rector of the ESCP Europe Business School, Berlin and executive partner for Accenture.

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A Digital Transformation of Arab Museums

Challenges and Unconventional Strategies 2021-12-08

Museums in the Arab World - holding a significant collection of the world’s cultural heritage - can reconfigure themselves as virtual platforms for their digitized artefacts and offer discussion rooms, workshops for assimilating new technologies, and spaces for intensifying regional cooperation. They would be spaces for a participatory discourse in societies under stress. To become such a "place for change,” museums must rethink their own roles, self-understandings, and capabilities. However, why museums have so far been prevented from assuming this role is not (only) due to technologies and funding.

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