The Archaeological Heritage in the Arab World: Challenges and Solutions

4-6 April 2016
The 2nd international conference of the Faculty of Archaeology (Fayoum University, Egypt)

The Arab League drafted a resolution for the protection of cultural heritage at the conference.

According to the conference website, the themes were:

1- Challenges and threads of the Arab archaeological heritage

Wars and Conflicts.
Revolutions and Security instability.
Economic development challenges.
Weakness of Public awareness.
Natural and Environmental Threads.
Wrong restoration treatments.
Nonintegrated site management.
Risks of Political exploitation.
Terrorism.
Incompatible use of monuments.

2- The attitudes of Islam and Islamic scientists towards the antiquities.

The Quran and antiquities.
The Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad and antiquities.
The antiquities in the Islamic doctrine books.
Facing of religious extremism of the antiquities.
The literature heritage and antiquities.

3- Solutions for preservation of the archeological heritage.

Updating the academic courses.
Funding resources.
Management of archaeological sites and museums.
Conservation, habilitation and reuse.
Heritage legalizations.
Roles of society and media for raising public awareness.
Registration and documentation.
Scientific Publication.

Details and the call for papers can be downloaded as as pdf here.

The programme is available in arabic here: programme (2)

Participants include:

1 – the ministers of Antiquities and Awqaf
2 – the president of the Arab league
3 – the director of the library of Alexandaria
4 – the director of UNESCO in Cairo
5 – the ICOM office in Cairo
6 – the Mufti of Egypt
7 – Imams from Azher
8 – the president of ISESCO ( http://www.isesco.org.ma/)
9 – Zahi Hawass