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  • It will be years before Mosul’s Museum of Antiquities reopens. Lena Bopp found out how restorers are going about repairing the damage inflicted by Islamic State.
    Artefacts destroyed by IS in Iraq

    A gigantic jigsaw puzzle

    It will be 2026 before Mosul's Cultural Museum reopens. Lena Bopp found out how restorers are going about repairing the damage inflicted by Islamic State

  • A library in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem offers a rare glimpse into Palestinian history with its treasure trove of manuscripts dating back hundreds of years before the creation of Israel.
    East Jerusalem

    Library restores Palestinian history one manuscript at a time

    A library in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem offers a rare glimpse into Palestinian history with its treasure trove of manuscripts dating back hundreds of years before the creation of Israel

  • War in Sudan

    Sudan's cultural treasures are being destroyed

    While fighting between the military and the paramilitary forces of the RSF rages in Sudan, many of the country's important cultural assets are being destroyed, from invaluable libraries to mummies. By Philipp Jedicke

  • Young Iraqis row a flotilla of traditional wooden boats down the Tigris in Baghdad, celebrating an ancient nautical heritage in the now drought-stricken country. The United Nations ranks Iraq as one of the world's five countries most impacted by climate change.
    Iraqi heritage

    Iraq artist battles to save ancient boating tradition

    Young Iraqis row a flotilla of traditional wooden boats down the Tigris in Baghdad, celebrating an ancient nautical heritage in the now drought-stricken country. The United Nations ranks Iraq as one of the world's five countries most impacted by climate change

  • “Hot Cities: Lessons from Arab Architecture” provides valuable food for thought about the ways in which architecture can deal with climate change.
    “Hot Cities: Lessons from Arab Architecture”

    Inspiring cities of the future

    “Hot Cities: Lessons from Arab Architecture” at Germany's Vitra Design Museum provides valuable food for thought about the ways architecture can deal with climate change. Numerous examples from Arab countries illustrate how they have been defying the heat for thousands of years. By Joseph Croitoru

  • The Berlin Museum of Islamic Art’s new online portal is the first digital platform in the German-speaking world to present Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way.
    Berlin Museum of Islamic Art

    "Islamic Art” goes digital

    The Berlin Museum of Islamic Art’s new online portal is the first digital platform in the German-speaking world to present Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way. By Ceyda Nurtsch

  • Videos from cities near the epicentre have captured a devastating form of collapse some call "pancaking" – this happens when an entire building falls, each storey collapsing one on top of the other. The chance of survival for someone in a pancaked building is slim.
    Turkey-Syria quake

    Weak buildings, shallow shock caused deaths

    The instability of old buildings was responsible for much of the wreckage in Monday’s earthquake along the Turkey-Syria border. But the earthquake was also abnormally strong for its magnitude. Clare Roth has the details

  • One hundred and eighty years ago, the Prussian king sent a team of scientists to the Nile. The items they brought back were ground-breaking for the development of Egyptology.
    Egypt expedition 1842

    A Prussian tour to the land of the Pharaohs

    One hundred and eighty years ago, the Prussian king sent a team of scientists to the Nile. The items they brought back were ground-breaking for the development of Egyptology, a science very much in its infancy at the time. An exhibition on Berlin’s Museum Island tells the story

  • Palestinian Jamal Hemou, 58, is the last of his kind – he runs the only store in the West Bank city of Nablus repairing and selling vinyl records and players.
    West Bank's last vinyl repairman

    Vinyl lover preserves musical heritage

    From Jamal Hemmou's ramshackle workshop in Nablus's Old City in the occupied West Bank, classic Arabic songs blare into the surrounding cobbled streets. For how much longer remains to be seen – neither of his sons is interested in taking over the business

  • Iraq's women entrepreneurs

    Small businesses, big dreams

    The sewing machines and fabric that surround Alaa Adel at her "Iraqcouture" studio in Baghdad are testament to her success in deeply patriarchal Iraq

  • In a country that bears the scars of decades of conflict and has seen antiquities plundered, the House of Manuscripts' collection has managed to survive.
    Iraq’s cultural heritage

    Iraqi conservators strive to preserve ancient manuscripts

    Iraq bears the scars of decades of conflict and has seen its antiquities plundered, yet the House of Manuscripts' collection has managed to survive

  • The origins of the Maghreb

    Was the Arab Maghreb a French invention?

    The book "The Invention of the Maghreb: between Africa and the Middle East" prompts us to review basic terminology. This includes terms that we use almost every day as if they are definitive by virtue of geography, history and culture, such as "the Arab Maghreb", "North Africa", "the Middle East" and "sub-Saharan Africa". Shady Lewis Botros read the book

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