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How do you employ open access technologies in building community archives? What principles do you take to consideration when building accessible resources for communities, including for those with disabilities? Hazine is seeking 4 pieces on the open access movement concerning archives and resources from or pertaining to the Mashriq, Maghreb, East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Turkey, or Iran. If you’re a researcher, an archivist, a librarian, an artist, an editor or any other interested party, tell us how open access policies have affected you and your work.   What technologies have you used to build open access materials? What is the role of social media in the open access movement? What are the limitations of open access? 

Send pitches to hazineblog[at]gmail.com by May 15th, 2021. Pitches should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a few sentences telling us who you are, along with links to any published writing (if applicable). Pitches (and pieces) are accepted in English and Arabic. We are open to different forms of style as we expand this category of the site but do have a look at the essays we’ve run previously, like this one on typography, this one on pedagogy in museums, and this one on archivy, because they demonstrate what we’re really looking for: a strong point of view. Completed essays –if accepted– will be 2000 words or less; however, we are open to other creative formats.  Each pitch will receive a response; if you do not hear within a month, please reach out to us via email. Each piece is paid 100 USD upon publication. 

Please note: we are not accepting archive reviews of open-access digital collections as part of this series. 

كيف تبني المصادر المفتوحة وما هي المبادئ الأساسية لبناء هذه المصادر؟ تسعى خزينة لنشر من 3-4 مقالات عن حركة المصدر المفتوح ومبادئها في المشرق والمغرب وشرق أفريقيا وغرب أفريقيا وأفريقيا الجنوبية وآسيا الجنوبية وجنوب شرق آسيا وتركيا وإيران. إذا كنت أمين أرشيف أو أمين مكتبة أو مؤرخاً أو فنانًا أخبرنا عن المصادر المفتوحة وكيف أثّرت على عملك. هل قمت ببناء أرشيف اجتماعي مفتوح المصدر؟ ما هي التقنيات التي قمت باستخدامها؟  هل تلعب وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي دور في انتشار هذه المصادر بعد نشرها على الإنترنت؟ هل يوجد حواجز أمام حركة المصدر المفتوح؟

 قم بإرسال نبذة عن المقال الذي تريد أن تكتبه إلى البريد الإلكتروني hazineblog[at]gmail.com يوم 15 مايو (أيار) 2021 كحد أقصى. يجب ألا تكون النبذة أكثر من 300 كلمة وترافقها بعض السطور عن الكاتب. تقبل خزينة النبذ والمقالات باللغة العربية والإنجليزية، وترحّب بأساليب الكتابة المختلفة. نقوم الآن بتوسيع الجزء الخاص بكتابة المقالات على الموقع ويمكنك إلقاء نظرة على هذا المقال عن تصميم الخطوط الطباعية وهذا المقال عن الأرشفة لأنهم يُظهروا السمة التي نبحث عنها في الكتابة: وجهة نظر قوية. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، خزينة تقبل القصص المصورة. إذا تم قبول مقالك، يجب أن يكون 2000 كلمة أو أقل، وهناك مرونة في موعد تسليمه. سيتم دفع الكاتب 100 دولار أمريكي عند النشر. سنقوم بالرد على كل نبذة وإذا لم يصلك رد خلال شهر من يوم 15 مايو (أيار)، الرجاء الإرسال لنا مرة أخرى.

ملحوظة: لن نقبل ملخصات أو مراجعات للمصادر المفتوحة ضمن هذه الدعوة. 

When this roundtable was just a seed of an idea, it was really a reaction to a demonstrated lack of interest in producing inclusive pedagogies. Both on social media and in private conversations, students expressed a desire to see more diverse syllabi and approaches; the discourse became even more divided as more time passed, giving us temporal distance from the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020, a reaction to the murder of George Floyd. Educators said they did not think more inclusive pedagogies were necessary. But there was also a rush to make syllabi and lecture series more inclusive by simply assigning diverse writers, a perspective that was perhaps equally damaging. This roundtable is an attempt to push past this. Over the coming weeks, Hazine will be releasing three essays on pedagogy; it is a selection that emphasizes equitable teaching, rebellious teaching, teaching that uplifts students and gives their ways of thinking recognition. They raise questions of technique. Our roundtable features educators from a variety of settings with different areas of expertise and are tied together by their thoughtfulness and intelligence. No matter your field, no matter if you are an educator or not, this roundtable will  delight and challenge you to think about how we as diverse societies and communities have access to information.

We will be releasing the series over the next few months (and will be linking the pieces below as they are released). There are three in total. We will be taking a break midway through to allow for other content, but check back regularly, subscribe or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

The Community College Mission: How Inclusive Pedagogy Emerged from the 1947 Truman Report and the Open Door to Higher Education by Layla Azmi Goushey

“On Rebellious Teaching: Lessons from a Black Feminist Gallery Teacher” by Alexandra M. Thomas

“Crafting the Syllabus: Representation, Expertise, and Student Learning” by Sophia Rose Arjana

A hazine or a khazina خزينة  is a repository. It is where you put things. Accordingly, Hazine began as an archives review site in 2013, producing content relevant to Ottoman, Middle East and North Africa studies.  Since ‘relaunching’ in 2018, with new editors, Heather Hughes and N.A Mansour, Hazine has continued to provide the research community with archive reviews, but the site was also reworked to be more broadly inclusive of cultural heritage and information science professionals and highlight their contributions to research on the Islamicate world across time.  We introduced our new resource lists (including for visual sources and digitized collections), as well as interviews and essays, as we saw increased opportunities for Hazine as a publishing platform. We began to rethink the website’s visual identity. We have also added two editors, Shabbir Agha Abbas and Marwa Gadallah, to our team to support the demand for diverse content. 

Hazine is not supported by any university, research center, or think tank. It is not funded by a private individual who has their own agenda. Its contributors and editors are all volunteers.  To continue producing material responsibly, inclusively and ethically, we need funding. Over the next month, we are fundraising to give us a budget to support our expansion. At a very basic level, this will allow us to keep the lights on, paying for our web hosting services, which is up for renewal in August 2020. However, funding will also allow Hazine to

• Pay our contributors –many of whom are graduate students, independent researchers or contingent faculty– an honorarium, in line with the ethics we hope to embody; provide a small stipend to our editors; compensate any experts we may consult with.
• Continue to produce content more regularly and in other languages; expand our offerings, including digital humanities tools.
• Translate existing content into other relevant languages using professional academic translation services. 
• Incorporate more materials for the general public, in collaboration with the public. 
• Employ a freelance graphic designer to produce a new logo and visual identity for Hazine.
• Eventually apply for a 501 C3 license, which will allow us to apply for further funding and help with taxes. 
• Continue to build collaborative relationships across our many overlapping, shared communities.

We will need to raise a minimum of 5000 USD in order to begin to continue producing content and implementing changes along these lines; this will be our budget for the next year. If  you have students you refer to our site, if you use our site yourself, if you appreciate the need for open-access and ethically produced content relating to history and knowledge production, and if it is comfortably within your means, please consider making a donation. You can make a one-time donation here or set-up for a recurring donation here. If you don’t have the means to donate, please share widely on social media and email your colleagues the link to our donation page: this will be a huge help. 

Fundraising will allow Hazine to continue to operate independently and allow us the freedom that institutional ties might not be able to give us. We hope to be able to, funding permitting, send a small token of thanks to our funders. 

(Special thank you to Neelam Hussain, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Marc Reyes, and Jasmine Soliman for their advice on fundraising)

We have a new person at HAZINE–Heather Hughes! Heather is a Middle East cataloger at the University of Texas Libraries and is leading the preparations for some great new content for our third season. So keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks.