About the Project
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in partnership with Peshawar University Librarians, will catalogue and digitize endangered archives of Sufi monasteries and shrines within the Pashtun tribal regions on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier. These are unexplored collections revealing a rich sacred tradition in a region embroiled in one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history. This team will work at four religious sites in Waziristan, Peshawar and Malakand. Using a post-custodial model, the project will empower local stakeholders to preserve their collections, train them in digitization and cataloguing, and build preservation infrastructure for sustainable community-driven archiving.
Project Lead
Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill