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Egypt
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Tourism
12/9/2024 9:26:21 PM
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) the prestigious Prix Versailles award for being one of the world’s most beautiful museums for 2024.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
12/5/2024 9:42:38 PM
Semsemeya music instrument crafting and playing and Henna-centred rituals, aesthetics, and social practices were enlisted yesterday on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity of UNESCO.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
12/4/2024 6:50:00 PM
The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war.
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/26/2024 4:20:01 PM
Khaled El-Enany, Egypt’s candidate for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) director-general post, has been chosen as the UN Tourism Ambassador for Cultural Tourism.
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World
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Region
11/17/2024 3:54:10 PM
Hundreds of cultural professionals, including archaeologists and academics, called on the United Nations to safeguard war-torn Lebanon's heritage in a petition published Sunday ahead of a crucial UNESCO meeting.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/1/2024 11:24:37 PM
UNESCO and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square are celebrating Egypt’s intangible cultural heritage, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Egypt
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Society
9/27/2024 8:58:52 PM
Dr Khaled El-Enany, Egypt's candidate for the post of UNESCO Director-General, was awarded an honorary doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, France.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
9/27/2024 12:40:33 PM
Its winding allies, ancient mosque and ochre earthen houses helped bestow on Agadez its UNESCO World Heritage status, but the town in Niger is now under threat from flooding.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/13/2024 3:33:40 PM
Sudan's priceless archaeological heritage is being stripped from museums, with looters loading statuettes and fragments of ancient palaces onto lorries, smuggling them out of the war-torn country, and selling them online.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/9/2024 6:48:10 PM
Attacks worldwide against students and educational facilities rose by 20 percent in 2022 and 2023 over the two previous years, especially in war-torn countries, the UN said Monday.
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World
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International
8/21/2024 3:48:44 PM
Portuguese authorities sent reinforcements to the island of Madeira on Wednesday to fight a wildfire raging for a week that has touched the edge of a UNESCO-listed forest.
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World
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Region
8/14/2024 6:38:36 PM
Israel has approved a new settlement on a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, its far-right finance minister said on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/10/2024 10:25:41 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty discussed with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ali Sabry boosting trade and investment relations between the two countries and recent developments in the Gaza war at a meeting on Saturday in Cairo.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
8/2/2024 2:13:35 PM
Following its 46th session held in New Delhi, India, UNESCO added three new Arab sites in Palestine, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia to its World Heritage List.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/27/2024 6:27:43 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty met with Egypt's candidate Dr. Khaled El-Enany for the post of director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for 2025-2029 to discuss the developments of his nomination campaign.
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World
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International
7/27/2024 5:21:19 PM
UNESCO added Saturday the scene of an apartheid-era massacre and a village where Nelson Mandela lived as a boy to its World Heritage List, in an entry honouring South Africa's struggle that ended white-minority rule 30 years ago.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/24/2024 5:33:44 PM
Egypt welcomed on Wednesday the unanimous decisions of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee regarding the preservation and protection of Palestinian sites included in the List of World Heritage in Danger.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
6/27/2024 3:51:12 PM
K-pop megastars Seventeen said Wednesday they were honoured to be named UNESCO goodwill ambassadors on Wednesday.
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World
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International
6/18/2024 5:51:42 PM
A United Nations agency is warning that developments in artificial intelligence could spawn a new surge in Holocaust denial.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/18/2024 2:08:43 PM
Egypt welcomed the endorsement of the 33rd Arab Summit, hosted Thursday by Manama, Bahrain, of Egypt's candidate Dr Khaled El-Enany for the post of director-general of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the term 2025-2029.
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