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 a number of Historic Cities from around the world.