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Feb 22, 2024
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...
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...
Feb 14, 2019
Event: Culture at Risk – Yemen's Heritage Under Threat
Culture 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, 2019
Preserving Historic North African Crossroads: RPI Program Supports Urgent Documentation of Morocco
The towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful...
Jan 2, 2019
Mending the Mosaics of the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh
This beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to...
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