In celebration of the International Day of Islamic Arts the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage hosted a lecture by the Saudi architect Dr. Sami Angawi. he disscussed the Islamic architecture, including how to use its traditional patterns and to inspire its purposes and aesthetics in modern ways were disscussed [...]
The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) invited Quality Education School students on the 7 and 9 of November 2022 to its premises in Manama. ARC-WH introduced the students to the concept of World Heritage and the importance of preserving cultural and natural heritage. The strategic role of the [...]
After receiving an official request from the Baptism Site Commission (BSC), ARC-WH, with the assistance of a regional expert, visited the World Heritage site of the Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas). The aim of the visit was to provide technical advice on the process of revising the [...]
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 [...]
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), over the period 25 to 29 September 2022, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the 1972 World Heritage Convention, ARC-WH organised a series of activities during the World Heritage Days event to mark the [...]
In November 2022, the Rehabilitation of the Market in the Old Walled City of Shibam was completed through generous funding from the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH) and the supervision of ARC-WH. The project was implemented by the General Organisation for the Preservation of [...]
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 [...]
Launch of an exhibition that featured Man and Biosphere sites in the Arab region. The Supreme Council for the Environment and the Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT) announced the commencement of a project to compile an invasive alien plant and animal species blacklist in the Kingdom of Bahrain. [...]
From 27 to 28 May 2022, from 27 to 28 May 2022, the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) completed a two-day online workshop, which had a total number of 127 participants from 16 Arab countries, including Algeria, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Morocco, Oman, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, [...]
The book “World Heritage of the Arab Countries” in its second edition, written in three languages (Arabic, English and French), aims to present and promote the World Heritage sites in the Arab world and disseminate information, which are sites that extend from the Maghreb to the Gulf and vary significantly [...]
The Arab Regional Center for World Heritage (ARC-WH), represented by the director of the Center, Dr. Heba Aziz and Deputy Director Shaikh Ebrahim bin Hamoud Al Khalifa, participated in the ceremony of the Heritage Commission of the Ministry of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the occasion of [...]
ARC-WH organised a hybrid lecture with Dr. Adila Laïdi – Hanieh on the ‘Challenges of Museum Management Under Occupation’. During her talk, Dr. Adila Laïdi discussed aspects of the Palestinian Museum’s work and its mission to advance the Palestinian cultural heritage and shed light on the various challenges the museum faces in implementing its annual [...]