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Nidhi Mahajan

Nidhi Mahajan is an assistant professor in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Fatima Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies at The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE.

Remembering Slavery at the Bin Jelmood House in Qatar
Inside the Bin Jelmood House museum, Doha, Qatar. Photo from the Bin Jelmood website.A wall panel at the Bin Jelmood House museum. Photo courtesy of the author.
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Remembering Slavery at the Bin Jelmood House in Qatar

Memories of enslavement are often silenced and yet suffuse everyday life in the Gulf. As governments across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries memorialize a maritime, pre-oil Indian Ocean past as part of their nation-building projects, the Bin Jelmood House—a museum in the heart of Doha—st
Nidhi Mahajan • 10 min read