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Work details

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Applicant or licensee name:

National Maritime Museum

Applicant or licensee country:

United Kingdom

Application number:

OWLS000165-1

Application date:

08/03/2019

Status of application:

Licence Granted

Title or short description:

'The Road to Germany', circa 2015. A digitized diagram/map of how to travel from Turkey to Germany.It is in the possession of Josh Neufeld, who was emailed the map by Alia Malek, a journalist who was sent the map over Whatsapp by an anonymised Syrian refugee, ‘Muhanid’.

Full description:

This map is an abstract representation of a route from Turkey to Germany, which was frequently exchanged digitally between refugees, via social media (including Facebook and Whatsapp), in 2015. It is in the possession of Josh Neufeld, who was emailed the map by Alia Malek, a journalist who was sent the map over Whatsapp by an anonymised Syrian refugee, ‘Muhanid’. As part of our due diligence checks (for copyright) we liaised with the journalist Alia Malek, who wrote about the article in foreign policy magazine, Josh Neufeld the illustrator and Marie Gillespie, Lecturer at the Open University and no one knew who ‘Muhanid' might be.

Category:

Still visual art

Type of work:

Drawing

Museum, gallery, library or archive holding the work:

Unknown

Details and dates of publication, broadcast and/or distribution:

From 2015 onwards via social media forums such as WhatsApp and facebook. And then via websites in 2016: such as https://themuslimtimes.info/2016/01/29/the-road-to-germany-2400/ and https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/29/the-road-to-germany-2400-refugee-syria-migrant-germany-nonfiction-comic/

Uses

Free hand outs for live event, exhibition or similar

Use in a live event, exhibition or similar

In newsletter, bulletin, e-newsletter or e-bulletin

In non-commercial promotional material – print and digital

Digitise and make available on-line, including on social media

Preservation purposes

Use on stage or in performance

Educational purposes – use in learning/ training materials, including e-learning

Use in thesis/dissertation

Personal use

Known creators or right holders

Unknown

Known identifiers

eg International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

Unknown