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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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Life & Style
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City Lights
5/11/2024 1:32:40 PM
The exhibition offers an in-depth visual guide to the appeal of sushi, an opportunity to learn about its history and how sushi is eaten in Japan in its original form, which UNESCO listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/3/2024 7:17:00 PM
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering Israel's months-long war on Gaza, now nearing its seventh month.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
4/30/2024 9:23:52 PM
Nevine El-Aref explores the rich history of Alexandria’s Abu Mena Monastery and the work being done to remove it from the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger List in the first of a series of articles on Egypt’s World Heritage Sites
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Arts & Culture
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Music
4/28/2024 1:56:15 PM
The Moroccan city of Tangiers, which has a long history as a haven of inspiration for American jazz musicians, will host UNESCO's International Jazz Day for the first time on Tuesday.
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