Call for Projects: Urgent Cultural Heritage Protection Projects on Yemen
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), in partnership with the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), is eager...
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- Jun 4, 2019
Saving Syria’s Archaeological Treasures, One Object at a Time
Documenting pottery recovered from an ancient burial cave near Idlib, Syria. In June 2015, when the Syrian civil war was raging across...
- May 29, 2019
Video: Training Gaza's First Rapid-Response Heritage Preservation Team
In August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural...
- May 23, 2019
Preserving Cairo’s Islamic Tiles: The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project
A member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed...
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