Egypt
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- Skepticism Meets Plan To Transform Tahrir Into Unesco Site
Al Masry Al Youm (Maggie Hyde) Cairo Governor Abdel Kawi Khalifa wants to turn the epicenter of the city and the revolution into an official UNESCO World Heritage site. But with protesters still occupying parts of the traffic islands and sidewalks, the...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- More Re World Monuments Watch
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070606watch.asp "The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites today. This year’s list highlights buildings and other heritage sites that...
- World Heritage Map
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=319It's a slow time of year for Egyptology news, so here's a little something just slightly off topic, for those of you who are interested - a complete map of the World Heritage sites, including those in Egypt,...
- United Nations - Commemorative Stamps
http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/additional/egypt/index.htm Tomorrow, the United Nations will be printing a commemorative edition of stamps celebrating Egyptian heriated as part of their World Heritage series: "On 4 August 2005, the United Nations Postal...
Egypt
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 traffic is becoming a major threat to many other World Heritage sites. The road close to Stonehenge in the United Kingdom has threatened the integrity of the site. The proposal to build a highway close to the site of the Great Pyramids in Egypt from Giza to Dahshur was stopped by the Egyptian authorities at the request of UNESCO. The World Heritage Convention, referring to the List of World Heritage in Danger, mentions the serious threat of rapid urban or tourist development projects."
- Skepticism Meets Plan To Transform Tahrir Into Unesco Site
Al Masry Al Youm (Maggie Hyde) Cairo Governor Abdel Kawi Khalifa wants to turn the epicenter of the city and the revolution into an official UNESCO World Heritage site. But with protesters still occupying parts of the traffic islands and sidewalks, the...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- More Re World Monuments Watch
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070606watch.asp "The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites today. This year’s list highlights buildings and other heritage sites that...
- World Heritage Map
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=319It's a slow time of year for Egyptology news, so here's a little something just slightly off topic, for those of you who are interested - a complete map of the World Heritage sites, including those in Egypt,...
- United Nations - Commemorative Stamps
http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/additional/egypt/index.htm Tomorrow, the United Nations will be printing a commemorative edition of stamps celebrating Egyptian heriated as part of their World Heritage series: "On 4 August 2005, the United Nations Postal...