Utilizing Images in Historical Context in a Workshop

     On 4th of Dec. 2017, King Salman Center for Studies of History of Arabian Peninsula and its Civilization held a workshop for history department postgraduate students entitled "The Image and History Study" Conducted by Dr. Maha Al-Khoshail (PNU faculty). 

     The workshop started with welcoming Dr. Al-khoshail and the attendees, then by clarifying the workshop objectives and reviewing the importance of image in the study of history. Dr. Al-Khoshail explained the relationship between the image and the study of history and image analysis and its ties to the historical context. Then she elaborated on categorizing images to support the historical facts and detecting fake ones. 

     Dr. Al-Khoshail added that inscriptions and pictographs were humankind's earliest form of written language to record their history. She revealed that some historians tend to not use images in their research, considering it an incomplete historical data.

     She illustrated the importance of the image as a reflection of the social and political life, and historical context of certain regions for examples: images of the development of the two holy mosques. She pointed out that the visual information should not be collected randomly but instead, it should collect from historical centers were the original pictures are archived. At the end of the workshop, Dr. Al-Khoshail thanked King Salman Center for Studies of History of Arabian Peninsula and its Civilization for organizing this workshop and extended her thanks to Dr. Abdullah Al-Subaiy.