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The Dead Sea is a rare public space where we gather from across Jordan to explore our freedoms. Hidden bush areas around its shores have become secret cruising sites where we go seeking privacy.
Though it has existed since biblical times, it is vanishing rapidly because of mineral-extraction industries on its southern shores, and the Zionist extraction of water from its tributaries, especially the Jordan River.
As the Sea recedes -a border space dissolving- the area is slowly devolving into a fully militarized zone, soon to be completely inaccessible to the public.
How is it that a space can simply disappear? Where will we go to find sanctuary once it vanishes?
Maryam Al-Khasawneh is a Jordanian multidisciplinary researcher and analog photographer. A historian by training, with a focus on the late Ottoman/early mandate period history of Jordan, she currently creates visual histories that weave personal narratives into broader regional political themes. Her photography projects extend her academic research; central to her work is an examination of how colonial interventions in the Arab world have disrupted traditional social networks, redefined connections to the environment, and shaped the ways communities exist and resist. She previously exhibited her work with the PhMuseum, Darkroom Amman and Baghdad Photo week among others.
Maryam Al-Khasawneh is a Jordanian multidisciplinary researcher and analog photographer. A historian by training, with a focus on the late Ottoman/early mandate period history of Jordan, she currently creates visual histories that weave personal narratives into broader regional political themes. Her photography projects extend her academic research; central to her work is an examination of how colonial interventions in the Arab world have disrupted traditional social networks, redefined connections to the environment, and shaped the ways communities exist and resist. She previously exhibited her work with the PhMuseum, Darkroom Amman and Baghdad Photo week among others.
