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Al-Araby
The Arab Puppetry Museum, birthed by the Arab Puppet Theatre Foundation (APTF) has no ornate objects displayed in glass vitrines, no exhibition halls or artworks that adorn its walls. The Gerda Henkel Stiftung-funded museum is a virtual space and cultural sanctuary that houses antiquated objects — mainly puppets that collectively narrate the hitherto unknown (his)story of Arab puppetry. “In no venue or book has the history of Arab puppetry been faithfully represented,” museum founder and APTF director, Mahmoud Hourani told The New Arab from Florence, Italy, emphasising the need to “jigsaw toge…