Nirmal Puwar and Mahsa Alami Fariman examining Kodak Carousel slides in the Coventry Cathedral Archives. Photograph by A. Hakiminejad, March 2025, Coventry, UK.

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

Mahsa Alami Fariman, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, and Heba N. Sabboubeh

Published by Mattering Press

Trauma, Body and Home: An Affective Response to the ‘House of Hope’ is a collaborative piece which responds to a set of forgotten Kodak Carousel slides from the late 1980s, found 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.

The work is 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, published by Mattering Press. The podcast and the booklet are available here. 

Hard copies of the booklet were produced with funding from Coventry Cathedral and the British Academy Innovation Fellowship Scheme. Some sample pages are shown below: