The Zawiya is a building designed as both a tomb and a school, they are connected to the past through the dead buried within them, and those that visit and pay their respects to them. A traffic of people who have left behind a rich archive of family histories and social events that are storied within these spaces and are constantly retold orally. The zawiya is thus a community space in which history is performed and heard, which the project seeks to investigate, with the hope to stage a series of performances and events within them.