Maintaining World Heritage Sites
Egypt

Maintaining World Heritage Sites


http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/
A brief discussion of Egyptian sites listed as World Heriage Sites by Unesco, and some of the issues to be raised at the forthcoming conference in June this year.




- More Re Unesco Assistance For Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During a meeting held yesterday at the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) offices, the director of UNESCO’s cultural department Tamara Twinasky announced UNESCO’s full collaboration with the SCA to restore and preserve...

- World Heritage Sites: Threat Or Promise?
http://tinyurl.com/yxnyep (arabnews.com) An article about the pros and cons of establishing a site as a World Heritage Site. It is specific to three sites recently nominated in Saudi Arabia, but puts them into the context of more general issues: "Automobile...

- Unesco World Heritage Sites
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/16/news/trherit.php?rssOne of the International Herald Tribune's multi page reviews of an international heritage issue. This looks at the role of Unesco, the relative value of adding more sites to the list, and...

- Satellites In Support Of World Heritage
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMXDLVLWFE_environment_0.html "Last week the historic fortified town of Campeche, in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, was the centre for a Conference on the use of space technologies to conserve the world’s natural and cultural...

- Forthcoming Session Of The World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=185 "The 29th Session of the World Heritage Committee will be held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005. The World Heritage Committee consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention...



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