On 28 October 2021, the Antiquities Coalition, in collaboration with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) and the U.S. Department of State, organised a webinar on the critical role of culture in global security, national economies, and foreign diplomacy. Internationally recognized leaders in government and the arts, from [...]
World Monuments Fund (WMF) through ILUCIDARE program (www.ilucidare.eu), and the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH)organised a capacity building workshop for the Arab States on Geophysics Analysis in Conservation, which took place in Bahrain from 10 to 14 October 2021. The capacity building aimed to promote a thorough and [...]
ARC-WH organised a workshop in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Arts in Algeria for site managers and professionals involved in the daily management of World Heritage properties in Algeria on the preparation and effective implementation of management mechanisms. The workshop aimed to understand the conditions and management needs [...]
In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Youth, United Arab Emirates, ARC-WH held a workshop on the general processes of World Heritage. The three-day training gave specific attention to a range of heritage-related topics, such as underrepresented categories of heritage sites, Modern Heritage, and synergies between natural and cultural [...]
This project, funded by the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH), aims to support the local authorities in safeguarding the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the Walled City of Shibam, a World Heritage Site in Yemen, which has been on the World Heritage List “in [...]
Following a technical assistance request from Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine (INP)’s ARC-WH conducted a capacity-building workshop on the main concepts and processes related to the preparation of the state of conservation reports and the elaboration of terms of references for Impact assessment studies. The workshop was held online between [...]
This project was approved by the British Council and is funded by the Cultural Protection Fund through support from the UK Government Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). This project focuses on intangible heritage craft practices in the Socotra Archipelago. The project has documented a range of practices and [...]
Mangroves represent a vital element of coastal and marine ecosystems, as they provide numerous ecosystem benefits. In regards to the environment, apart for being an important habitat for species – such as the Socotra Warbler and Socotra Cisticola as well as other birds, crustacean and reptile species – the trees also have a [...]
ARC-WH announces the third webinar Integrated Reconstruction of Heritage in the Post-Trauma Social and Economic Recovery in Light of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, scheduled to take place on 17 June 2021, 10:00 – 13:30 (CET) in the framework of the upcoming international Conference on integrated post-disaster reconstruction of cultural heritage – social, economic and [...]
ARC-WH and ICOMOS, in collaboration with BACA, worked on a regional initiative in the Arab States on integrating the Policy document on SDGs and Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape into the processes of the World Heritage Convention. Translation of the SDG policy guidelines into Arabic. Translation of ICOMOS policy [...]
ARC-WH received a technical assistance request from The Ministry of Culture and Arts in Algeria on the preparation of a draft nomination of the site of the fortifications of the city of Oran ‘Wahran Fortification’ on Algeria’s Tentative List. Training workshop on the preparation of Tentative Lists and Nomination proposals [...]
Following the success of the first webinar, Cultural heritage and people – building resilience in the superimposed trauma, held on 21 December 2020, ARC-WH is organising the second webinar, Cultural Heritage and People in the Post-Trauma Process: Building Resilience through Integrated Reconstruction and Recovery of Heritage. The second webinar will be [...]