Zeugma Mosaic Museum: Place-based Creative Writing.

As part of a Syria Programme academic writing workshop in Gaziantep, Dr Bahriye Kemal led and co-organised with SP participants, Dr Rida Anis, Fozya Aldared, and Professor Jennifer Baird, a place-based creative writing workshop with 11 SP female participants, to contribute to the SP-supported project: Women Writing Syria: Displacement, Movement and Resilience. The visit began with a walk through the Museum, pausing at key sites/pieces to benefit from talks: an archaeological and mythical framed talk by Prof. Baird, and a postcolonial cultural, literary and spatial talk by Dr Kemal. This was followed by a reading and discussion of Lucian of Samosata texts, before the writing task. The 11 creative outputs from this workshop will be included in the Women Writing Syria Anthology.