8/6/2025–|Last update: 11:09 (Mecca time)
Oman – As soon as the door of his small museum opens every morning in the center of the Jordanian capital, Amman, to receive its visitors, the memories will return to you decades, because the Jordanian citizen Ahmed Al -Akhras started since the 1990s to collect hundreds of old and rare pieces and holdings in many of them, in his small museum in the courtyard of his house, to become, according to many Jordanians, the guardian of the beautiful time of time, as he returns to them their past and child The seventies and eighties of the last century, who have always been tightened to the past.
Jordan memory guard
Al -Akhras began his initiative to document the memory of the Jordanians as a result of his great passion for the national heritage and everything that is old, his heritage group enabled thousands of old curricula, and paper newspapers dating back to the era of the establishment of the Emirate of East Jordan in 1921, which – according to Al -Akhras – has no counterpart and no other copies of them at the level of the Arab world, in addition to children’s games, commercial products and unique monetary currencies, to become the preservative of the country’s history and its inheritance The popular that reflects the features of social, cultural and political life in Jordan.
Al -Akhras also possesses ancient and rare videos and cassette, and very ancient academic curricula for Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates and Syria, and pictures and old maps belonging to the capital Amman in the beginning of the last century.
Ahmed Al -Akhras, 47, says that he was hesitating the popular markets in the past, visiting villages and countryside, and listening to the tales of the elderly to collect the unique stories and rare heritage pieces that carry many secrets and striking narratives. Al -Akhras confirms in his talk to Al -Jazeera Net, that he aims, through his humble museum, to the bridge of the gap between the previous and current generations, by preserving the Jordanian national identity, and introducing new generations with its history and past.
With the passage of time, the precious holdings of Al -Akhras turned into an educational and documentary means of the stages of the development of life in Jordanian society, to become a source of researchers, historians and local and Arab media, and Ahmed Al -Akhras is one of the most prominent Jordanian figures who dug her name in the national memory as a witness and historian of the memory of the beautiful time in Jordan.
Al -Akhras was distinguished by his superior ability to document the history of Jordan through pictures, stories and living testimonies, which made him more like a mobile human library that talks about the history of Jordan wherever it is and is traveling, and his actions also contributed to strengthening the national identity and linking new generations to its historical roots.
Nostalgia for the past
Ahmed Al -Akhras has an interesting and attractive style when he invokes old stories and stories, supported by his old holdings and tools.
He adds: “At the end of the school year, the students in the eighties and nineties were getting rid of their books and games, and I kept them and everything is old in a special place inside my house, because I learned that it would become valuable one day, and today it has become a great legacy of our childhood and history.”
Al -Akhras talks about his overwhelming joy when he sees the joy and surprise in the eyes of his visitors while they turned the textbooks for the first grade three decades ago, so he reads in their eyes nostalgia for the past, and they return dozens of years back, or when they browse the games that prevailed at that stage of the beautiful time, as the exhibition contains old electronic games such as “Al -Atari” and “Siga”, along with modest plastic warships.
Keep memories
Al -Akhras fears that his dream will evaporate to find a suitable place to display his holdings and the contents of his museum, calling on the Jordanian official authorities to provide a suitable place to display these holdings whose importance and value increases over time. In order to document this stage of the age of the Jordanian state, Al -Akhras began publishing all his tools, documents and pictures through his page on social media platforms, under the title: “Memory of Beautiful Time”, to transfer his old archive to the virtual world, up to the largest possible number of people to revive their memory.
Al -Akhras concludes his speech by emphasizing that everyone remains trapped in the beautiful time, which is usually an engine for many to return to the nostalgia of the past and its beautiful memories, to the innocent childhood days, the seats of study, the friends of the beautiful time, the simple social relationships that are far from costing, and the details of small life.