Trauma, Body and Home: An Affective Response to the 'House of Hope

Trauma, Body and Home: An Affective Response to the ‘House of Hope’ is a collaborative work between Dr Mahsa Alami Fariman (UCL), Dr Ahmadreza Hakiminejad (Leeds Beckett University), Dr Heba N. Sabboubeh (Aston University), and Professor Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, University of London), funded by the British Academy Innovation Fellowship Scheme and Coventry Cathedral. The work forms part of the Hear Here podcast series and the Experimental Index within the British Academy–funded project Multicultural Experiments in the Civic Life of a Cathedral, led by Professor Nirmal Puwar and published by Mattering Press.

Trauma, Body and Home is a critical and creative reflection on a set of forgotten Kodak carousel slides from the late 1980s, discovered by Nirmal Puwar in the Coventry Cathedral Archives, documenting an event held at the cathedral connected to the ‘House of Hope’, a peace centre founded in 1978 by Palestinian activist Elias Jabbour.