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Heritage
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Heritage special
8/21/2023 5:14:25 PM
Egypt inaugurated the House of Heritage at the Foustat Traditional Crafts Centre in Old Cairo on 20 August.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/15/2023 9:38:01 PM
A broader range of perspectives must be heard if fear-mongering and the suppression of inconvenient truths are not to push us towards the wrong solutions to the world’s problems.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
8/7/2023 10:27:00 AM
Thousands of years before cookbooks were written elsewhere in the world, the ancient Egyptians were documenting recipes on the walls of tombs, like the one found in the tomb of Rekhmi Ra, a minister, that depicted the stages of preparing tiger nut cake.
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World
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International
7/31/2023 8:24:05 PM
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO on Monday recommended that Venice be added to its list of world heritage in danger, saying the Italian authorities needed to step up efforts to secure the historic city and its surrounding lagoon.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
7/29/2023 3:41:46 PM
Internationally acclaimed art exhibition ‘Forever Is Now’ is scheduled to launch its third edition at the Great Pyramids of Giza between 26 October and 18 November, as unveiled by the organizer Art D’Egypte.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/23/2023 10:48:14 PM
UNESCO on Sunday condemned Russia's "brazen" attack on Ukraine's Odesa, which hit several sites in the port city's World Heritage centre.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/22/2023 9:29:00 AM
The Marshes of southern Iraq, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are being turned into desert by ongoing drought. Report from Chibayish in the Dhi Qar Province of Iraq
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Heritage
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Heritage special
7/11/2023 5:40:18 PM
Egypt and the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will co-organize a series of events celebrating 20 years since the adoption of the 2003 Convention of Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
7/2/2023 4:08:44 PM
Young Moroccan women are bringing new and inclusive energy to the centuries-old art of Gnaoua, a spiritual musical repertoire traditionally reserved for men.
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World
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International
6/30/2023 5:18:52 PM
The United States rejoined UNESCO on Friday, reversing its withdrawal during the Trump administration, the UN's cultural agency said.
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World
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Region
6/21/2023 12:33:35 PM
Generations of Palestinians have worked the terraced hillsides of this West Bank farming village southwest of Jerusalem, growing olives, fruits, beans and exquisite eggplants renowned across the region in a valley linked to Prophet Dawud ( the biblical King David in Judaism).
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World
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International
6/12/2023 1:53:04 PM
UN cultural and scientific agency UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.
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Opinion
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4/8/2023 12:52:33 AM
A joint message by the Egypt Country Representatives of WHO, FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNHCR, IOM and the Resident Coordinator in Egypt on the event of the World Health Day, 7 April 2023.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/5/2023 5:55:00 PM
Egypt has nominated former minister of tourism and antiquities Khaled El-Enany for the post of director-general of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The election will take place during the last quarter of 2025.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
3/31/2023 5:47:13 PM
It's a revenge thriller where a mother turns into a ruthless vigilante, tracking down and drowning a soldier who has killed her baby, in an explosion of violence and jubilation.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/23/2023 3:24:45 PM
Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in the Arab States Nuria Sanz spoke to Ahram Online on a variety of topics including partnerships with Egypt, education, illiteracy, culture, and safeguarding Egypt's outstanding Coptic heritage.
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Business
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Tech
3/15/2023 6:26:37 PM
Egypt’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), in collaboration with the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a workshop on Wednesday about Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) to evaluate the possible future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/6/2023 7:56:33 PM
In a meeting on Monday with Chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO Tamara Rastovac, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry underscored the importance of avoiding politicisation of discussions in the UNESCO.
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World
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Region
3/6/2023 1:40:28 PM
The head of the UN cultural agency on Monday started a three-day visit to Iraq where many priceless cultural treasures have been damaged or destroyed during decades of conflict.
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Antiquities
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Region
2/7/2023 6:38:57 PM
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake and warned several others may also have been hit.
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