The main aim of the coordination workshop for international and Iraqi experts on “The Ahwar of Southern Iraq and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities” was to develop a management plan that safeguarded the integrity of the site. The workshop is part of the UNEP-UNESCO initiative to use the [...]
A symposium on museums and communities was organised by ARC-WH in order to highlight the important role that museums play in societies and in World Heritage sites. The symposium keynote speakers were Michael Conforti from the Clark Museum, ICOM Director Anne-Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine, and Bernard Fonquernie, Chief Architect and Honorary Inspector [...]
The management planning process included three main phases: data collection and assessment, policy-making and plan compilation and finalizing the Cultural Management Framework Plan by integrating the management plan of natural components. During the one-day technical meeting which was organized in Basra to launch a consultation process, special attention was given [...]
ARC-WH celebrated Arabic Language Day at its premises in Manama, Bahrain. The event featured an exhibition from Mali’s World Heritage site of Timbuktu’s manuscripts and displayed the great history of Arabic as a Language. The World Heritage site of Timbuktu received financial support to restore some of its manuscripts in [...]
As part of the initiative of ARC-WH to support cultural heritage in danger, a First Aid Course to Build Heritage in Syria was organised in Beirut, Lebanon, with the participation of several experts from Syria. This initiative stemmed from the MoU that was signed between ARC-WH and the Directorate-General of [...]
ARC-WH hosted an Arab expert preparatory meeting to draft a unified charter for the protection and promotion of cultural Heritage in the region. The expert meeting was jointly organised by the Arab Organization for Education, Science and Culture (ALECSO) ARC-WH and Athar/ICCROM.
ARC-WH, represented by its director Mounir Bouchenaki participated in the international workshop held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and the embassy of Iraq to UNESCO. The meeting focused on the situation of cultural heritage in Iraq. The urgent plan of action, [...]
ARC-WH hosted the fourth Capacity Building Workshop on Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery in collaboration with UNESCO’s Office of Iraq. The central theme of the workshop was the preparation of the nomination file for the site. It aimed to build the Iraqi policymakers, Site Managers and researchers’ capacities to be capable of [...]
The third national workshop on the ‘application of the ecosystem approach to maintaining oyster beds in the Kingdom of Bahrain’ was organised on 18 March 2014 and was attended by the general public, representatives from the private sector, civil society organisations and academics. The workshop fell within the framework of [...]
This coordination meeting came as a continuation of the efforts undertaken since 2009. Supporting the compilation of the nomination process requirement and designating Iraq’s Marshlands as a World Heritage site, this workshop brought together the United Nations Environmental Programme-Regional Office for West Asia (UNEP-ROWA), the Arab Regional Office for World [...]
Under the patronage of the Tourism Sector of the Ministry of Culture and ARC-WH, and in collaboration with the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE), the Embassy of France to the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Coastal Protection Agency, UNEP-ROWA and IUCN organised a seminar on the “Tourism Development and World [...]
ARC-WH, in coordination with IUCN and the Ministry of Environment of Iraq, conducted a field visit, which formed part of the technical support programme for the nomination preparation process of the Marshlands and its conservation and management. This mission progressed the programme to a more advanced level of support, as [...]