Regional Workshop for Arab States on Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context [IAWH23 ARB] The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme are looking for 20 World Heritage site managers and practitioners to join a regional capacity building workshop on Impact [...]
The training workshop on the World Heritage Convention and the nomination process for World Heritage sites took place from 21 to 23 March 2023 at the premises of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. The importance of this workshop lies in the fact [...]
‘Dive into Heritage’ is a project supported by the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia that aims at creating an innovative online platform to present digital data of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Arab region and its related intangible heritage. The project, which underwent a regional survey, a reflection [...]
The workshop on ‘Climate Action for World Heritage: Advanced Workshop on Risk Management in World Heritage Sites in the Arab States Region’, which was held from March 5 to 9, is the second workshop in a joint training programme between the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the International [...]
Underwater cultural heritage is one of the most important types of human heritage, with UNESCO estimating that there are millions of sunken marine artefacts worldwide and other underwater historical sites, many of them in the Arab region. Accordingly, the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage, in cooperation with the Heritage [...]
The Impact Assessment on World Heritage was organised by the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage in cooperation with the Heritage Commission in Kingsom of Saudi Arabia and the ICCROM-IUCN World Herirage Leadership programme. The workshop was attended by 25 Saudi Heritage professionals from variuos field of Heritage related sectors [...]
ARC-WH organised an online training workshop for 15 Arab experts and professionals from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. The experts and specialists from Arab countries engaged in this workshop will be part of a roster of resource people that could be involved in delivering capacity-building workshops with ARC-WH [...]
The five-day workshop included 19 participants from 12 countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen), including World Heritage site managers from the Arab region. To ensure continuity, ARCWH offered a series of online meetings to work with the participants on their site-specific [...]
A recent study conducted by ARC-WH, in collaboration with authorities, concluded that the territorial waters of Bahrain carry the largest groups of dugongs in the world in terms of number and density. The study spanned more than 3 years, including extensive air and marine surveys, using satellite images and modern [...]
The capacity-building workshop was attended by 20 heritage professionals and site managers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain. The workshop covered topics related to nomination procedures and the preparation of Tentative Lists, including the main concepts of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and the requirements for [...]
The hybrid format meeting was attended by 28 Arab and international experts specialised in Underwater Cultural Heritage (UK, Egypt, Morocco, France, Lebanon, Algeria, Canada, Tunisia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Italy, Bahrain). They discussed the importance of marine and underwater archaeological sites, their relationship to World Heritage sites, and their connection [...]
ARC-WH participated in the two-day workshop from 19 to 20 March 2022, entitled ‘Restoring Syrian heritage & reviving local communities’ held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The workshop was organised by the Syrian Trust for Development. The objective of the workshop was to create a call to action for the [...]