Saphinaz Amal Naguib

• Funerary Statuettes. Etnografisk Museum Oslo, Mainz/Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern 1985.
• Predynastic Pottery. Etnografisk museum Oslo, Oslo: Novus Press 1987.
• Le clergé féminin d'Amon thébain à la 21e dynastie, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA) 38, Louvain: Peeters Press 1990.
• Miroirs du Passé, Cahiers de la Société d'Egyptologie Genève 2, Genève 1993.
• Mosques in Norway. The Creation and Iconography of Sacred Space, Oslo: Novus Press 2001.
• Den egyptiske dødeboken - og tekster om livets vei, Oslo: De norske bokklubbene, 2001.
• The Intangible Heritage of the Mediterranean. Tradition, Adaptation and Innovation' (Oslo: Unipub 2002).
• (med Bjarne Rogan), Materiell kultur og kulturens materialitet, Oslo: Novus forlag 2011.
• (med Terje Stordalen). The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future, Oslo: Novus Press 2015.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2021). Ruins of Ruins. The aura of archaeological remains., In Bjørnar Julius Olsen; Mats Burström; Caitlin DeSilvey & Thora Petursdottir (ed.),  After Discourse: Things, Affects, Ethics.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-367-19048-4.  Chapter 10.  s 162 - 186 Vis sammendrag

  The turn of this millennium has witnessed a wave of systematic destruction and organized looting of ancient buildings, monuments, archaeological sites and artefacts in the Middle East. War has been taking its toll. Towns and villages are turning into ruins; their inhabitants endure all kinds of hardship and losses. New ruins are being made out of existing ancient ruins that have been there for centuries. Among the most salient examples of recent demolitions are the archaeological sites, monuments and artefacts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. Material fragments of bygone cultures are being even more fragmented than they were. Taking the ancient desert city of Hatra in north-west Iraq as my object of study, I discuss the politics and poetics of archaeological remains in borderlands. I make use of a combined archaeological and culture historical approach to explore the place of emotion in contemporary engagements with the past in areas that have recently been exposed to armed conflicts. I examine Hatra through the lenses of sensorial assemblages, and draw upon the notions of aura, presence and resonance to probe the affective power of ruins and archaeological fragments.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2019). New Frames to Islam in European Museums.. Material Religion.  ISSN 1743-2200.  15(3), s 376- 377 . doi: 10.1080/17432200.2019.1572362
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal & Farstadvoll, Stein (2019). Flâneries in a Northern Urban Landscape. Affective Atmospheres, Diffuse Museum and the Creation of Heritage in the 21st Century., In Kerstin Smeds & Ann Davis (ed.),  Museum & Place.  ICOFOM- ICOM International Committee for Museology.  ISBN 978-92-9012-462-7.  Flâneries.  s 181 - 210 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2018). Bridging Gaps: Archaeological Sources and Resources in Museums., In Pål Steiner; Alexandros Tsakos & Eivind Heldaas Seland (ed.),  From the Fjords to the Nile: Essays in Honor of Richard Holton Pierce on his 80th Birthday.  Archaeopress.  ISBN 9781784917760.  kap. 4.  s 41 - 47 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Museums and archaeology share a common engagement to find, recover, safeguard, study and explicate the material world. This article is about the methods and scopes of museums regarding their use of archaeology as a source and a resource in exhibitions about Ancient Egypt and Nubia, and how archaeological finds and research in different academic fields may serve to generate, expand and sustain museums’ activities. Bridging the gaps between disciplines and laying the grounds for free-choice learning and for the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge is a first step. The second step has to do with a self-reflective turn we have been witnessing during the last decade or so in European museums holding archaeological material from non-Western countries. This new turn has to do with an increased awareness of the sustainability of such endeavours. Establishing a politics of trust between museums, cultural and research institutions and local populations is the next step.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2018). Exploring Biographies. Ancient Egyptian Statuettes at the Museum of Cultural History (MCH), University of Oslo.. CLARA Classical Art and Archaeology.  ISSN 2464-3726.  3, s 1- 26 . doi: 10.5617/clara.v3i0.2972 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  Small funerary statuettes shaped as mummiform figurines are among the most common ancient Egyptian artefacts to be found in museums of cultural history worldwide. The Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (MCH) is no exception. The present article explores the biographies of material culture, materiality, objectification and shifts in meaning. It probes the many ways small artefacts, often categorized as ‘minor art objects’ of no importance, provide us with valuable insights into ancient Egyptian beliefs, society and culture. Selecting a few pieces from different periods, it delves into the multi-layered narratives and intersecting storylines where the objects’ biographies are tied to a web of relations across time and space as well as to the history of the ancient Egyptian collection at the MCH. The article discusses questions related to museological and heritage management, and addresses ethical issues concerning the provenance and ownership of archaeological artefacts in museums.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017). Engaged Ephemeral Art: Street Art and the Egyptian Spring.. Transcultural Studies.  ISSN 2191-6411.  2, s 53- 88 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  The wave of uprisings known as the “Arab Spring” that swept over the Middle East and North Africa from December 2010 to early 2013 left its imprint on the political and social life in the countries concerned. This transient moment also marked a change in various forms of artistic expressions. Street art, graffiti and calligraffiti are among the most striking forms of art that developed during this short period. Artists recorded and commented on events and the developments of the political situation. They drew upon their people’s cultural memory to impart their messages and expressed dissension, civil disobedience and resistance by combining images and scripts. The present essay addresses questions pertaining to the fields of material culture, memory and heritage studies. It explores the materiality of visual art and the translation of political contestation into street art, graffiti and calligraffiti in Egypt. In my use of the term, materiality refers to the physical properties and texture of street art, graffiti and calligraffiti. It also denotes their intangible dimension, their meanings and their relations to people. Translation relates here to cultural contacts and to the interplay between texts, images and contexts from the vantage point of intermediality. The essay probes the ways political slogans were visualised, drawn and inscribed on the walls of the urban space in Cairo and then disseminated on a plethora of Internet platforms and social media. It posits that these media are helping to elaborate the cultural memory and intangible heritage of events from a very recent past. Key words: street art – graffiti – calligraffiti – “Arab Spring” – Egypt - materiality - translation – cultural memory - heritage.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017). Forgotten Things: Pen-Boxes and their Stories., In Nora Sunniva Eggen & Rana Issa (ed.),  Philologists in the World: A Festschrift in Honour of Gunvor Mejdell.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-904-0.  Culture, chapter 9.  s 219 - 232
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Når veggene taler. Gatekunst, graffiti, kalligraffiti og den arabiske våren i Egypt.. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning.  ISSN 1502-7473.  2, s 6- 21
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Collecting Moments of Life. Museums and the Intangible Heritage of Migration. Museum International.  ISSN 1350-0775.  65(1-4), s 77- 86 . doi: 10.1111/muse.12035 Vis sammendrag

  During the last three decades several museums of cultural history in Europe have positioned themselves as ‘authorities of recognition’ where debates concerning actual social and political issues are treated. One of these issues is migration and integrating the material culture and oral history of immigrants and emigrants within the wider national history and cultural heritage of the countries of departure and of arrival. The oral history of migration encompasses life stories, interviews, videos, films and also letters migrants send and receive. These are among the main recurrent items collected by museums. Moments of life are recorded, archived, edited and displayed in the galleries of museums and online. They express a sense of dislocation, exile, adaptation and of prismatic identities. They retrace the various trajectories of individuals, convey the special knowledge they carry with them and provide the basis on which the intangible cultural heritage of migration is being shaped. "Collecting Moments of Life" is about the methods and scopes of European museums of cultural history in collecting narratives of migration as a policy of integration and recognition. Focusing on life stories it posits that by recording, safeguarding and presenting the narratives of migrants, museums are gradually transforming them into the intangible heritage of migration and diasporas. This, will not only influence the sustainability of this heritage but also establish these museums as active agents of social cohesion and mediators of transcultural knowledge.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space., In Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright (ed.),  OBJECTS AND IMAGINATION Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-1-78238-568-4.  chapter 3.  s 64 - 78
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). The Articulation of Cultural Memory and Heritage in Plural Societies., In Terje Stordalen & Saphinaz Amal Naguib (ed.),  The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future: Collective Remembering and Identity Formation.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-808-1.  kapittel 10.  s 221 - 246
• Stordalen, Terje & Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Time, Media, Space. Perspectives on the Ecology of Collective Remembering., In Terje Stordalen & Saphinaz Amal Naguib (ed.),  The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future: Collective Remembering and Identity Formation.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-808-1.  kap. 1.  s 17 - 37
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2014). Skrivingens materialitet: Peter Christen Asbjørnsens reiseskriveskrin, I: Line Esborg & Dirk Johannsen (red.),  "En vild endevending av al virkelighet" - Norsk Folkeminnesamling i hundre år.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-772-5.  Del 1 - Oppskrifter.  s 91 - 100
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2013). La politique de la diversité dans un musée sans collection, l'Interkulturelt Museum d'Oslo, I: Denis Chevallier (red.),  Métamorphoses des musées de société.  La Documentation française.  ISBN 978-2-11-009260-1.  del II/ kap. 4.  s 105 - 110
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2013). Museums, Diasporas and the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Sustainability.  ISSN 2071-1050.  5(5), s 2178- 2190 . doi: 10.3390/su5052178 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Engaging with gender and diversity in museums of cultural history :. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore.  ISSN 0066-8176.  67, s 111- 128
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Et blikk på Egypt. Neo-faraonisme og sekulariseringen av det offentlige rom, I: Saphinaz Amal Naguib & Bjarne Rogan (red.),  Materiell kultur & kulturens materialitet.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-630-8.  kapittel 7.  s 125 - 144
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Introduction: Patterns of Cultural Valuation. Priorities and Aesthetics in Exhibitions of Identity in Museums. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore.  ISSN 0066-8176.  67, s 9- 12
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Kulturelt mangfold i kulturhistoriske museer; utfordringer og fallgruver. Telemark historie : tidsskrift for Telemark historielag.  ISSN 0333-2586.  (32), s 97- 112
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Seyla Benhabib og Et annet verdensborgerskap, I:  Seyla Benhabib: Et annet verdensborgerskap.  Cappelen Damm AS.  ISBN 978-82-02-35091-8.  Artikkel.  s 109 - 123
• Rogan, Bjarne & Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal (2011). Materiell kultur og forskning på tvers. En introduksjon, I: Saphinaz Amal Naguib & Bjarne Rogan (red.),  Materiell kultur & kulturens materialitet.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-630-8.  Kapittel 1.  s 9 - 18
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2010). Egypt in View: Postcards of Nostalgia, In Solrun Williksen & Nigel Rapport (ed.),  Reveries of Home: Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-4438-1979-4.  Home-Making and Memory Work.  s 109 - 123
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2010). Reconciling History and Memory at the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Paris, In Hanne-Lovise Skartveit & Katherine J. Goodnow (ed.),  Changes in museum practice : new media, refugees and participation.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-1-84545-610-8.  4.  s 48 - 57
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (1996). The Era of Martyrs. Texts and Contexts of Religious Memory, In Kari Vogt & Nelly van Doorn-Harder (ed.),  Between Desert and City.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 82-7099-257-7.  kap. 9.  s 121 - 141
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (1994). The Martyr as Witness. Coptic and Copto-Arabic Hagiographies as Mediators of Religious Memory. Numen.  ISSN 0029-5973.  41, s 223- 254
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (1993). Martyr and Apostate: Victor, Son of Romanos and Diocletian. A Case of Intertextuality in Coptic Religious Memory. Temenos.  ISSN 0497-1817.  29, s 101- 113

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• Stordalen, Terje & Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (ed.) (2015). The Formative Past and the Formation of the Future: Collective Remembering and Identity Formation. Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-808-1.  381 s.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal & Rogan, Bjarne (red.) (2011). Materiell kultur & kulturens materialitet. Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-630-8.  385 s.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (ed.) (2002). The Intangible heritage of the Mediterranean: Transmission, adaptation and innovation. Unipub forlag.  ISBN 82-7477-121-4.  234 s.

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• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2020, 29. januar). Gjenskapte stemmen til en 3000 år gammel mumie. (https://www.nrk.no/viten/gjenskapte-stemmen-til-en-3000-ar-gammel-mumie-1.14879475). [Internett].  nrk.no.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2018). Revisiting the ‘perfect ruin’. The politics and poetics of an archaeological site..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017). Perspectives in Cultural Memory..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017). Street art and sustainability in Vardø, North Norway..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017). Urban art, place and affective atmospheres..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2017, 28. mars). Vardø's Rich street art scene: will the city become an ecomuseum?. [Internett].  https://cas.oslo.no/read/.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Acknowledging Diversity and Sharing Culture: Museums and the Heritage of Migration..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Contentious walls and the Arab Spring in Egypt. Graffiti and the art of circumventing censorship..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Diasporas et le pays d’accueil. Le cas de la Norvège..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Egyptisk mytologi..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2016). Rebellious Walls: Street Art, Graffiti, Calligraffiti and the Arab Spring in Egypt..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Archaeologic Fragments and their Aura..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Entangled Heritage and the Frames of Islam in European Museums..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Impact events and contentious walls. Street art during the Arab Spring in Egypt..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Memory and its materiality: the crafting of heritage..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2015). Sharing cultures: Museums and Heritage of migrations in Scandinavia..
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2014). Bridging Gaps: Archaeological sources and resources in contact zones. Vis sammendrag

  The paper discusses methods and scopes of museums regarding their use of archaeology as a source and a resource in exhibitions about Ancient Egypt. Multidisciplinarity and laying the grounds for free choice learning is, in my view, a first step. Reflexivity about the work of archaeology and museums is a second one. Establishing a politics of trust between museums, archaeologists, institutions and local populations, developing and putting into practice long-term sustainable projects is the next one.

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2014). De représentation à participation. Quand l'objet devient sujet dans les musées de société.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2014). Haci Akman (ed.) 2014. Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia. Women, Migration and the Diaspora. New York: Berghahn. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning.  ISSN 1502-7473.  3, s 64- 66
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2014). Migrasjon, museer og den inkluderende nasjonen.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2013, 02. januar). Kulturnytt - Bassem Youssef og yttringsfrihet i Egypt. [Radio].  NRK - Marienlyst.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2013). Modes of Participation at the Museum: Practices involving a diverse public.
• Bothner-By, Annelise Rosemary & Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012). The politics of participation - a reflection on the design for spatial presence and social interaction in the exhibition space. Vis sammendrag

  This presentation is a reflection on the design of the exhibition Spor på stedet. The entry question for the design was how can the spatial design mediate for spatial awareness and social relations that enhances the experience of the narrative of the exhibition? This reflection addresses the different approaches to the visitors? involvement in the exhibition, and the power-relation between the designers and the visitors? intentions. I am touching on the overreaching questions: Does architecture mediate use, or is it the use that defines architecture? How is the spatial experiences´ meaning created, is it conceived by the designer or perceived by the visitor (Psarra, 2009)? The answers have been debated through centuries, and most would answer that the answers lie in both cases somewhere in between. I am not trying to answer these questions, but will try to concretize the designer?s considerations, and dilemmas connected to this power-relation through reflecting on the choices made during the design of Spor på stedet?

• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012). Estetikk og den nomadiske vending. Representasjoner av den Andre i kulturhistoriske museer.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012, 24. april). Kultur og underholdning: Fant tapt egyptisk manuskrift ved en tilfeldighet. [Internett].  nrk.no.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012). Nefertiti’s Stories. Museums and Ancient Cultures from Colonial to Cosmopolitan Practices.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012). The Gift of Life Stories and the Politics of Participation.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2012). The nomadic turn and the materialization of concepts in museums of cultural history.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal & Mathisen, Silje Opdahl (2012). Identiteter på Grensen.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Complex itineraries and the affecting presence of things.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Diasporic heritage in museums.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Egyptology today.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011, 02. august). Egypt-smugling er milliardbransje. [Internett].  NRK-vitenskap - nrk.no.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Kulturelt mangfold i kulturhistoriske museer: utfordringer og fallgruver.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011, 11. desember). Moderne mangfold på museum. [Internett].  forskning.no.
• Naguib, Saphinaz Amal (2011). Trunks, suitcases, bags and their poetics.

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