The Arab Oral History Archive: Gender, Alternative Histories, and the Production of Knowledge—also known as the Gender Oral History Archive (GOHA)—is a multi-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It seeks to generate new oral history collections and to draw on existing methodologies and archives to document and preserve inclusive, critical, and situated bodies of knowledge about the Arab region.

The project culminated in the creation of an archive composed of two sub-collections: the first focuses on oral histories of Dar El Fata El Arabi Children’s Books Publishing House, while the second features interviews with women from the 1970s generation across six Arab countries—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria—reflecting on their experiences and contributions. The archive will be hosted and made accessible through the American University of Beirut (AUB) University Libraries’ digital platform.

The launch conference will be held on November 5–6, 2025, at the Conference Hall (Room 113), Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, AUB. It will officially inaugurate the Gender Oral History Archive, bringing together more than 20 scholars to present their research on diverse aspects of oral history and knowledge production.