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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World
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Region
1/25/2023 7:11:58 PM
An ancient Yemeni kingdom and a Lebanese modernist concrete fair park were added Wednesday to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites in danger, the latest entries from The Middle East.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
1/12/2023 3:24:52 PM
The European Centre for Middle East Studies, headquartered in Germany, is organising its third international scientific conference in Tunisia on 25-26 February.
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Heritage
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Walks
11/30/2022 3:10:03 PM
“Festivities and celebrations affiliated with the Journey of the Holy Family in Egypt are now on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,” professor Nahla Imam, heritage consultant at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and country representative of Egypt at the 2003 Convention of Safeguarding the Intangible Heritage of UNESCO, told Ahram Online on Wednesday
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/20/2022 3:23:27 PM
With the slogan "empowering creative minds," the platform empowers young independent Egyptian and Arab talents to be part of the realm of creative industry.
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COP27
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Focus
11/18/2022 1:09:22 PM
One of the world's first cities came close to being wiped off the map during tragic floods this summer in Pakistan. Though Mohenjo Daro survived, it has become a symbol of the threat global warming poses to humanity's cultural heritage.
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Business
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Energy
11/13/2022 11:16:05 PM
Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a number of local and international partners to promote the use of small solar energy plants at archaeological sites and museums.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/11/2022 6:49:22 PM
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday officially requested that UNESCO add the historic port city of Odessa to its World Heritage List in a bid to protect it from Russian air strikes.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/10/2022 6:23:40 PM
Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday.
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World
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International
9/19/2022 8:54:30 PM
With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world, activists implored world leaders Monday to prioritize school systems and restore educational budgets slashed when the pandemic hit.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
8/28/2022 10:36:30 AM
Newly accredited in July, Karama is the latest Egyptian foundation accredited by UNESCO for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Egypt.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
6/23/2022 12:59:48 PM
UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
5/17/2022 8:46:53 PM
After two decades on the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger, the Abu Mena restoration project should now lead to the site’s removal, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
3/6/2022 9:54:00 AM
Israel continues with its abuses undeterred by an international community forever harping on human rights and commitments to international agreements.
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