25 May 2022
The Arab Regional Center for World Heritage, Book Launch in Rabat, Morocco of the 2nd Edition of “World Heritage in the Arab Countries”
The Arab Regional Center for World Heritage will inaugurate on Thursday, May 26, 2022 the second part of the book "The World Heritage in the Arab Countries", during a celebration at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco in the capital, Rabat. The celebration of the launch of the second part of the book is graciously sponsored by GFH Financial Group.
The second edition of the book "World Heritage Sites in the Arab Countries", which is presented in three languages–Arabic, English and French— which aims to promote the World Heritage sites in the Arab countries, was launched at the end of last year for the first time at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the French capital, Paris. It was also launched at the ARC_WH’s headquarters in the capital, Manama.
The book, “ World Heritage in the Arab Countries" in its second edition, aims to present and promote the World Heritage sites in the Arab world and disseminate and spread related information. Indeed, these are sites that are located in North African countries (Arab Maghreb) extending to the Gulf region, varying greatly between Cultural and Natural sites. In fact, there are 86 sites in the second book, an increase of 20 sites over the first edition of the book.
Worth to mention that the first edition of the book, which was launched in 2012 in partnership with the Ministry of Culture in the Kingdom of Bahrain, UNESCO and ALECSO, and with the funding of Bahrain Bay Development, played a key role in strengthening the status of World Heritage in the region and highlighting its importance. The book also highlights the richness and beauty of the region’s heritage and helps to promote the Centre’s efforts in protecting it for current and future generations. The book is endowed with a powerful visual language, as it contains remarkable and distinctive photographic scenes, and in minute details of the Arab sites registered on the World Heritage List, as all sites were photographed by the famous French photographer specialized in world heritage photography, Jean-Jacques Gilbert.
