Feb 22Call for Projects: Urgent Cultural Heritage Protection Projects on YemenThe Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), in partnership with the American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), is eager...
May 29, 2019Video: Training Gaza's First Rapid-Response Heritage Preservation TeamIn August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural...
May 23, 2019Preserving Cairo’s Islamic Tiles: The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments ProjectA member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed...
Feb 14, 2019Event: Culture at Risk – Yemen's Heritage Under ThreatCulture at Risk: Yemen's Heritage Under Threat Saturday, February 23, 2019 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art...
Jan 17, 2019Preserving Historic North African Crossroads: RPI Program Supports Urgent Documentation of MoroccoThe towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful...
Jan 2, 2019Mending the Mosaics of the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-TirehThis beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to...