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Return to Tenderness

Qisetna's "Return to Tenderness" project focuses on preserving the cultural and oral heritage of communities affected by conflict and displacement, particularly in Syria. The …

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Understanding Mandate Palestine through the publications and archive of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem

This project digitised 33000 pages of rare books (1619-1950) and archives (1919-1950) from the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, preserving endangered materials on M…

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Syrian Heritage Law Training (SHeLTr) project

The SHeLTr project provided training to law and heritage experts as well as government officials on questions of cultural heritage safeguarding in conflict.

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Al-Qahira Castle restoration

Al-Qahira Castle of Taiz is located on the northern slope of Sabr Mount, over a rocky hill that overlooks the city. It was destroyed by the Islamic State in June 2015 and we h…

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Palmyrene Voices

Palmyrene Voices is a civil society initiative whose mission is to provide a platform for the voices of the Palmyrene people to reach the international community; to support t…

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HIERAPOLIS PROJECT: Protection and documentation of heritage in Munbij

The project aims to implement emergency interventions at three heritage sites dating from the late Byzantine to early 20th century. The sites are located within the city of Ma…

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Syrian Cassette Archives: Three New Collections

As part of this project, music will be documented, digitalised, recorded and safeguarded for future generations.

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Developing Capacities in Marine Cultural Heritage Management and Protection

This project focuses on the protection of endangered Marine Cultural Heritage in Gaza and Libya through capacity building in maritime archaeology. Marine Cultural Heritage in …

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Urgent Action: Safeguarding the Diverse Cultural Heritage of Jerusalem

The Khalidi Library – Khalidi Waqf will lead a project to support the preservation of, and efforts to increase public access to East Jerusalem’s written and archaeological her…

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