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Iraqi

One of the manuscripts on display at Baghdad exhibition. (TAW)

1,000-year-old manuscripts among display in Baghdad

Heritage

Local policemen patrol by a colonnade from the remnants of the Temple of Demeter in the ruins of Libya’s eastern ancient city of Cyrene. (AFP)

Libya’s ancient heritage threatened by plunder, destruction

Egypt

A view of an ancient Christian structure carved in the bedrock discovered in the Tal Ganoub Qasr Al-Ajouz site in the Western Desert Bahariya Oasis. (AFP)

Ancient Christian ruins discovered in Egypt’s Western desert

Syria

A partial view of the damaged Temple of Bel, in Syria’s Roman-era ancient city of Palmyra in the country’s central province of Homs. (AFP)

War and terror inflict irreversible damage on Syrian heritage

Heritage

Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (middle) visits the Hatta Heritage Village. (wam)

Emirati Shiekha Latifa launches documentary on Hatta enclave

Morocco

Moroccans sit at Marrakesh’s Jamaa el-Fna square on March 16, 2020. (AFP)

Moroccan museum to promote Jamaa El Fna heritage

tunisia

Tunisian Rabbi Daoud reads the torah at the Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. (AFP)

Tunisian authorities struggle to safeguard Jewish heritage

Iraqi

An Iraqi Kurdish Jewish man, clad in a Tallit prayer shawl, breaks a loaf of bread with family members during their Shabbat meal service at a home in Arbil. (AFP)

Iraqi Jewish heritage fading away, memories struggle on

Saudi Arabia

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a gathering to mark the 566th anniversary of the conquest of the city by Ottomans, in Istanbul, in May 2019. (AFP)

Rejection of Ottoman legacy linked to Turkish behaviour today