A delegation from ARC-WH, represented by its director Mounir Bouchenaki, visited the oasis of Al-Ahsa, inscribed in 2015 on the World Heritage Tentative List. The Al-Ahsa oasis lies 65km inland from the Arabian Gulf in eastern Saudi Arabia and is one of the world’s largest oases in the world. ARC-WH [...]
In close cooperation with ARC-WH, the Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities (BACA) launched the “Cultural Tourism Passport” in celebration of World Tourism Day. The passport features a map detailing 21 of the country’s most iconic and historical landmarks, monuments and cultural sites, which passport holders can “tick off” by [...]
ARC-WH, in cooperation with UNESCO Amman, the WRPA (Wadi Rum Protected Area)/ Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), conducted a mission to provide technical guidance and support to the management plan of Wadi Rum, a mixed World Heritage site, to implement the World [...]
In cooperation with the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) in the Kingdom of Bahrain, ARC-WH explored ideas to support Bahrain in expanding its work on the nomination file for the Hawar Islands. A series of meetings and activities were held to prepare an IUCN Red List assessment which focused [...]
Following its inscription in 2014, ARC-WH director, Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki, visited Erbil Citadel and held a series of meetings with the local authorities in Erbil to discuss the status of management and conservation of the site.
Coinciding with Bahrain-European environment week, ARC-WH launched the translated publication “Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage”, which includes studies and research carried out to understand the impacts of climate change on cultural and natural sites worldwide. The book was published by UNESCO in 2007, has had three reprints, [...]
ARC-WH hosted events during Bahrain Europe Environment Week in close cooperation with the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) and the embassies of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. The event was part of the ongoing global debate about the challenges of climate change. The programme of workshops and [...]
ARC-WH held a series of meetings with local authorities in Mauritania to discuss methods of support towards the conservation and preservation of cultural and natural heritage in Mauritania. Upon the completion of the mission, four major areas of cooperation were identified: 1) Capacity building on the 1972 World Heritage convention. [...]
ARC-WH, in partnership with UNESCO-Doha and Ministry of Environment and the Supreme Council for the Environment of Natural Reserves in Qatar, held several expert meetings to discuss the possibility of the potential inscription of Khor Al-Udaid on the World Heritage List.
A three-day Historic Cities and Urban Regeneration Conference was held from 23-26 March 2015 at ARC-WH premises in Manama, Bahrain. The conference included a series of thematic presentations and discussions, in which keynote speakers from UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, and other international and regional institutions presented the status of preservation in [...]
In response to the current situation facing cultural heritage in the region, ARC-WH, in partnership with the UNESCO office in Beirut and ICCROM-Athar, organised a workshop on Risk Preparedness for Syrian experts. A total of 23 participants joined the workshop from different parts of Syria, including Aleppo, Idleb, Deir Al-Zor, [...]
The workshop aimed at raising the capacity building of participants with the necessary skills and knowledge of global comparative analysis. The analysis provided justification for why a nominated property should be inscribed on the World Heritage List. The training course introduced participants to advanced concepts, procedures, and sources of information [...]