Publications

Addressing emerging conservation challenges in the Arab region, and integrated approaches to heritage management, ICCROM (through its regional office in Sharjah), in partnership with the University of Sharjah in the UAE, is offering an inter-disciplinary MSc programme in “Conservation Management of Cultural Heritage”.

في ظل التحديات التي تواجه حفظ التراث الثقافي في المنطقة العربية وظهور النهج المتكاملة لإدارة التراث، تقدم منظمة إيكروم (من خلال مكتبها الإقليمي في الشارقة)، بالشراكة مع جامعة الشارقة في الإمارات العربية المتحدة، برنامج ماجستير متعدد التخصصات في” إدارة حفظ التراث الثقافي “.

The ICCROM-Sharjah Award for good practices was concluded for the first time on February 2018. It highlighted the good practices in conservation and management of cultural heritage in terms of technical skills employed as well as social and economic impacts of the project on local communities.
تقوم هذه الجائزة بتسليط الضوء على أفضل الممارسات المتعبة للمحافظة على التراث الثقافي وإدارته خاصة فيما يتعلق بالمهارات التقنية المستخدمة والآثار الاجتماعية والاقتصادية المترتبة من هذه المشاريع على المجتمعات المحلية.

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the problems, issues and challenges related to understanding the reasons for preserving cultural heritage in the Arab region, supported by case studies from different Arab contexts.

يقدم هذا المنشور إطلالة شاملة على الإشكاليات والقضايا والتحديات التي تتعلق بفهم دوافع الحفاظ على التراث الثقافي في المنطقة العربية مدعومة بأمثلة دراسات حالة من سياقات عربية مختلفة.

The Warsaw Recommendation on Recovery and Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage is a document from 2018 constituting a comprehensive set of principles concerning the process of urban reconstruction and rebuilding of historic buildings or complexes of buildings destroyed as a result of armed conflicts or natural disasters.

توصية وارسو بشأن تعافي وإعادة بناء التراث الثقافي هي وثيقة من عام 2018 تشكل مجموعة شاملة من مبادئ إعادة الإعمار الحضري وإعادة بناء المباني التاريخية أو مجمعات المباني التي دمرتها النزاعات المسلحة أو الكوارث الطبيعية.

This participatory game offers its users the opportunity to build a common understanding of how the cultural and natural heritage of a place contributes to capacities for disaster risk reduction and sustainable development.

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis is a two-part publication created for the various actors involved in an emergency. It provides a practical method and a set of ready-to-use tools for securing endangered cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. The user-friendly workflows help readers to plan and implement coordinated cultural rescue and risk reduction operations that involve local communities, heritage custodians, emergency responders and humanitarians.

Using a selection of essential texts from the last 30 years, the publication illustrates the key issues and concepts in the field of archaeological mosaic conservation. It begins with a historical and technical overview of the mosaic heritage of the region, with many illustrations, and includes summaries of the key charters and conventions on conservation of cultural heritage. The multilingual glossary contains over 230 terms, 40 of which are also defined in a lexicon.

One of few publications to address the issue of protective shelters, this book records the results of a week-long symposium that used the archaeological site of Herculaneum as an “open classroom”.

More than 55 000 museums exist in the world, and typically 90% of their objects are in storage rooms. As collections grow, financial resources continue to dwindle, leaving museums struggling to ensure that their treasures in storage are adequately looked after and accessible.

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis is a two-part publication created for the various actors involved in an emergency. It provides a practical method and a set of ready-to-use tools for securing endangered cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. The user-friendly workflows help readers to plan and implement coordinated cultural rescue and risk reduction operations that involve local communities, heritage custodians, emergency responders and humanitarians.