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"HeritageForAll" initiative offers a variety of study topics and articles that are viewed the diversified perspectives and overviews of cultural heritage and museological sectors.
Articles
An Exhibition: Egyptian Crafts through the Ages
New Delhi-supported Initiative GoUNESCO
By Mr. Mohamed Badry in 18 March 2017
‘Egyptian Crafts through the Ages’ is a temporary heritage exhibition that was recently organized by the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), a project directed by the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt with the technical support of #Unite4Heritage, a global movement powered by UNESCO that aims to celebrate and safeguard cultural heritage and diversity around the world. NMEC is situated on the archaeological site of El Fustat, in Old Cairo, overlooking the Ain El-Seera Lake. What is remarkable about this museum is the fact that this is the first veritable museum of civilization in Egypt.
Reopening Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
New Delhi-supported Initiative GoUNESCO
By Mr. Mohamed Badry in 24 January 2017
Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo is one of significant heritage buildings which are located in UNESCO World Heritage Site “Historic Cairo”. Museum building is itself an architectural heritage object that comes back to the Khedive period. Museum building consists of UNESCO outstanding universal values including historical, aesthetic, cultural values. In 2014, museum was faced ISIS terrorism attacks destructing it facade, and some of unique museum objects. Unifying for heritage, curators and conservators hold on creating a quick rescue and then, acting risk management for the museum building and its objects. Now after this short period, Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo reopened again challenging the heritage and civilization enemies. According the current situation, museum was applied the majority of museological criteria. It was redesigned the display scenario stratifying various targets of audience either national or international ones.
Egyptian Underwater Heritage in Alexandria and Preservation Management
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By Mr. Mohamed Badry in 26 November 2016
UNESCO in the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001), defines underwater cultural heritage as, “all traces of human existence having a cultural, historical or archaeological character which have been partially or totally under water, periodically or continuously, for at least 100 years”. In 1996, Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) founded a new department that was devoted to underwater antiquities especially after uncovering the lighthouse location and rediscovering a part of the royal quarter in the Eastern Harbor. It is situated in Alexandria and is a seabed of submerged archaeological remains. This new department, is responsible for protecting whole underwater cultural heritage along Egyptian coasts, collects a group of differentiated specialties including Egyptology, Graeco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic studies. Cooperating with various foreign archaeological expeditions, Egyptian diver-archaeologists train and become well informed with modern methods of discovering underwater monuments.
Unrecognised Egyptian Intangible Heritage: Mats
New Delhi-supported Initiative GoUNESCO
By Mr. Mohamed Badry in 2 November 2016
Traditional crafts and craftsmanship is considered one of intangible cultural heritage forms . “Crafts are deeply embedded in the culture”. Regarding purpose, there are various forms of traditional crafts which were concentrated for “edutainment”. Many of these were going to be used in short term, e.g. in daily life routine, within festivals, rituals, or social events. “Craftsmanship involves the skilled working with the hands to create something of use for a purpose where the skills require training and usually continuous practice”. Subsequently, the cultural context of creative crafts comes as a result of gathering a group of the shared apprenticeship knowledge, skills, and experience.
Tahrir Square: A Public Space That’s Made History
New Delhi-supported Initiative GoUNESCO
By Mr. Mohamed Badry in 15 October 2016
According to the contributions of Mr. Marc Treib in UNESCO World Heritage manual, public spaces are each open destination that to be accessible for the audience serving the urban community. These destinations are where the local people gather spending free time, or interacting socially. “Louis Kahn talked about ‘going away from’ spaces and ‘going to’ spaces.” Moreover, according to the quote of Mr. Charles Birnbaum in UNESCO Expert Meeting October 2001, the public spaces are a significant historic source and need a special preservation technique.
Egyptian Intangible Heritage between Preservation Management and Sustainable Development Pattern: Analysis of the Popular Craft of Manufacturing Mats
By Mr. Mohamed Badry in March 2017
Cultural heritage is a great term expressing the inherited live ways and transmitting from generation to generation. This term is included either the intangible or tangible cultural heritage. Focusing on intangible heritage, it is included a group of activities, that had been developed by the local or indigenous communities, such as traditions, proverbs, crafts, and practices. Despite of the cooperative efforts had been done either by individuals, or NGOs, Egyptian intangible cultural heritage (EG ICH) is not only well-managed but also, not well-preserved. Therefore, there are numerous forms of EG ICH that don’t be under control. EG ICH, e.g. the popular crafts and craftsmanship, faces a great threat that, along the coming decade, to be rapidly died out. As a result of that, paper methodologically views a wide theoretical knowledge about the perspectives of preservation and management of intangible heritage presenting some recommendations within the framework of the sustainable development. The objective of this is to indicate the significant role of intangible heritage in the process of sustainable development. Finally, paper views a managerial and economic analysis estimating the current situation of the popular crafts of manufacturing mats.
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