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  • Minister Announces Construction of Museum in Luena

    ANGOLA, 2014/02/23 The Angolan minister of Culture Rosa Cruz e Silva Friday in Luena, eastern Moxico province, expressed her Ministry?s intention to build a Provincial Museum, with a view to preserving and disseminating the culture of the region. The minister was speaking at the inauguration of the Culture Home, unveiled by the Vice President of the Republic, Manuel Domingos Vicente. The official said the museum will increase the knowledge of the students and art lovers within and out of the province.

  • Morocco's traditional and modern cultures

    CASABLANCA, 2014/02/15 It's nearly dusk on the dunes and the setting sun is casting long shadows on the sand, stretching camel legs into spindles as they trek through a seemingly endless expanse of desert. Our caravan is heading into Morocco's Erg Chebbi dunes - a windswept Saharan sand sea of swells that span over 100 square kilometres near the border with Algeria. As the camels sway through sweeping views of rose-gold knolls rippling to the horizon, we're lulled into a peaceful serenity. It's a perfect pastoral scene, the kind of impossible image conjured by guidebooks - that is, until you look closely. Up ahead, our Berber guide, dressed in a long white djellaba and oxblood shesh whips out a smartphone. Jarringly, he begins to take cellphone snaps of the scene: a line of camels led by local teens who pair their traditional robes and turbans with skinny jeans and sneakers. Morocco, by presently one of the majority open Muslim nations, is a rapidly modernizing society.

  • Egypt’s museums looted during riots

    EGYPT, 2014/02/14 That tragedy was repeated with the looting of the Malawi Museum at the same time as the Rabia al-Adawiya and Nahda squares sit-ins were broken up on Aug. 14 of last year, and in the looting of the Islamic Museum on Jan. 24. Those incidents have encouraged other thieves to loot antiquities sites by exploiting riots. Targeting museums and archaeological sites has become common during the riots, at the same time as security chaos keeps the police busy. Antiquities thieves have benefitted the majority from the waves of riots and lawlessness in Egypt, and they are making fortunes. Additional treasures are being stolen and sold on the black market with each wave of unrest. Perhaps the majority prominent looting incident was that of the Egyptian Museum during the events of Jan. 28, 2011. Not a week goes by in Egypt without someone transporting stolen artifacts being arrested or stolen museum pieces being seized.

  • An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished

    GERMANY, 2014/02/14 An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished in a joint project with the German Foreign Ministry. It will be the second synagogue to be restored under a appropriate German government program. Tuesday’s announcement came as the Moroccan Ambassador in Berlin, Omar Zniber, launched an exhibit at the embassy’s cultural center of photographs of Moroccan Jews from the 1960s inclunding new photos of synagogues in the country, both pre- and post-renovation.

  • International institutions have begun using the spelling “Cabo Verde,”

    CAPE VERDE, 2014/02/13

  • Culture Ministers from Sweden and Seychelles meet at Umea

    SWEDEN, 2014/02/03 Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, the Minister responsible for Culture and Sports from Sweden, and Minister Alain St.Ange, the Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture from the Seychelles, used the opportunity of the events marking Umea as the Culture Capital of Europe for them to meet and exchange ideas on the development of culture. Minister St.Ange of the Seychelles used the opportunity of the conference to brief the Minister from Sweden on his discussions with regards to having a Sami indigenous group from Sweden fly the Swedish Flag and the Sami flag at the coming April carnival in the Seychelles. He explained that discussions were underway with the Swedish Arts Council to try and make this presentation a reality.

  • The third anniversary of the Tunisian revolution,

    TUNISIA, 2014/01/10 A book equitable, with appropriate focus on the third anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, opened Tuesday at the Ibn Khaldoun cultural complex in Tunis, quoting organizers. The book on display are published by Tunisian publishing houses in Arab and French in 2013 Organized as part of the celebrations marking the third anniversary of the Tunisian political revolution, the equitable is featuring several books tackling various topics.

  • UNESCO approves emergency funds to evaluate Mali’s intangible heritage

    MALI, 2013/11/01 A UN committee has approved an emergency assistance package of US$307,307 for a two-year project to evaluate the national of intangible heritage throughout Mali, beginning with the northern regions that suffered the majority from recent armed conflict and occupation. The decision was taken on Monday in Paris by the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage. A statement by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said that the project would evaluate the national of intangible heritage, knowledge and practices related to nature, oral traditions, songs, rituals, festivals and traditional crafts throughout the West African country.

  • Uganda: The 2013 Uganda Film Festival As It Was

    UGANDA, 2013/09/10 Uganda: The 2013 Uganda Film Festival As It Was Monday The Uganda film festival was launched at the Serena Hotel and was set to go on for the whole week. The launch had the Minister of Data and National Guidance, Mary Karoro Okurut, as the guest of honor and celebrated local actor, Abbey Mukiibi, as the emcee (MC) of the night. The biggest highlight and the only entertainer at that was Myko Ouma, who showed his magic had magic.

  • Morocco desert museum for Little Prince aviator-author

    MOROCCO, 2013/06/01 Battling the wind in his World War I biplane, a French pilot landed on a sandy Moroccan airstrip. Nearly 90 years on, a museum honours his remain and the world-renowned book it inspired. “Antoine de Saint-Exupery the writer was half born here, in Tarfaya, where he spent two years as station manager of Aeropostale,” says Sadat Shaibat Mrabihrabou, opening the doors to the small museum in Morocco’s far south, where the sea and the desert meet.
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