Researchers at Oxford University praising the platform "The memory of the homeland" At Sheikh Zayed Festival
Abu Dhabi, 12 Vira / WAM / A delegation of researchers from the “Beit Rivers” museum at the University of Oxford, British University, visited the “Memory of the Nation” platform in which the archive and the national library participate in the Sheikh Zayed Festival 2025, and reviewed the pictures of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ” May God rest his soul, “which was taken by the famous traveler lens, explorer, and unique to Thisger.
Dr. Ruby Al -Sulaibi, the chief researcher at the Beit Rivers Museum, expressed her happiness to enhance cooperation and cognitive exchange with the archive and the national library, praising the “Memory of the Nation” platform and its contents that are presented to visitors and the festival’s pioneers a historical dimension from the United Arab Emirates, and is a window from which generations overlook the memory The UAE.
She said that the writings of Wilfar Thysger and the pictures he took for the human being and the place are a wonderful documentation of an important stage in the history of the Emirates, showing the richness of the past, and the renaissance, development and prosperity it witnessed.
The “Beit Rivers” museum, which has been reserved since its inception, maintains a generous support from the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, with tens of thousands of pictures taken by Thysger for places and people in the Emirates and the Arabian Peninsula, and the pictures of Sheikh Zayed are at the forefront of the museum’s holdings where they have Of great importance by the museum and its management.
The archive and the national library on the “Memory of the Watan” platform displays many historical images of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, “May God rest his soul” since he was a representative of the ruler in the Al Ain region, and the history of most of these pictures dates back to 1948, where the British traveler had the honor of the meeting Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al -Mijiehy’s fort in Al Ain.
The images of the founder and al -Bani, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, which was taken by the lens of thesgeger and what he wrote about him, “God rest his soul” and the United Arab Emirates, is a unique addition, as Thyssirger documented from the reality of the reality aspects of the life of the Bedouins and the residents of the Arabian Peninsula, and helped him to do so He was speaking the Arabic language, respecting the customs and traditions of the people of the region, and wearing their uniforms until the local residents called it “Mubarak bin London”.
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