Ana López-Navajas, researcher and Women’s Legacy’s project manager, visited the city of Amman (capital of Jordan), where she had the opportunity to establish contact with the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), an entity that has not only shown interest in this project, but has also decided to sign the corresponding letter of endorsement to formalise its collaboration.
As they explain on their website, RIIFS “is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides a venue for the interdisciplinary study of intercultural and interreligious issues with the aim of defusing tensions and promoting peace, regionally and globally”. Thus, its collaboration with Women’s Legacy will involve the inclusion of the works and biographies of Middle-Eastern women of all times and all fields (art, music, literature, etc.) in the catalogues of works that will soon be published openly.
“This international collaboration is a great step towards the achievement of Women’s Legacy’s goals: the recovery of female-created cultural heritage and its dissemination through education. Collaborating with the RIIFS will bring the project and the catalogues to the Middle-Eastern world as they will be shared in universities and other educational institutions. One of the most efficient tools to bring down inequality is acknowledging female contributions to cultural and historical development.” Ana López-Navajas explains.
The terms for collaboration between Women’s Legacy and the RIIFS include a working system in which all contributions will be in Arabic and Spanish and then translated into English and Catalan so that they can be used by the entire Women’s Legacy network. This will be added to the material that the different working groups of the project have been creating for months and that will be presented in the first term of 2022, when the free resource bank will be available on this official website.
Ana López-Navajas travelled to Jordan in early November to, on the one hand, offer a speech on Andalusian poets at the University of Amman and, on the other hand, to give the Emilio García Gómez lecture, invited by the Spanish Embassy and the Instituto Cervantes in that same city. Princess Rahma bint Hassan, who praised the work being done by Women’s Legacy, attended the latter.
