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Photos: Arab Image Foundation stuns audiences with online archives from Egypt and Middle East
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Photos: Arab Image Foundation stuns audiences with online archives from Egypt and Middle East

The Arab Image Foundation (AIF), a Beirut-based NGO, has launched an online platform amassing around 25,000 vintage, rare photographs out…
Race on to cover Notre-Dame as rainclouds gather over Paris
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Race on to cover Notre-Dame as rainclouds gather over Paris

Climbers were brought in Tuesday to unfurl tarpaulins over Notre-Dame to protect it from expected rain after the iconic cathedral…
Cairo Opera House celebrations open for free on Sinai Liberation Day
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Cairo Opera House celebrations open for free on Sinai Liberation Day

Egypt’s Culture Minister Inas Abdel-Dayem has opened the Cairo Opera House to the public for free on the occasion of…
France launches global contest to design new Notre-Dame spire
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France launches global contest to design new Notre-Dame spire

France will invite architects from around the world to submit designs for rebuilding the spire of Notre-Dame cathedral that was…
Macron vows to rebuild a ‘more beautiful’ Notre-Dame in 5 years
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Macron vows to rebuild a ‘more beautiful’ Notre-Dame in 5 years

President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild Notre-Dame “even more beautifully” within five years, as all of France’s cathedrals prepared…
Sisi expresses solidarity with France over Notre-Dame Cathedral fire
Egypt

Sisi expresses solidarity with France over Notre-Dame Cathedral fire

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced his solidarity with France, following the massive fire on Monday at the roof of the…
Billionaires and private donors mobilize to rebuild Notre-Dame
Culture

Billionaires and private donors mobilize to rebuild Notre-Dame

Billionaires and private donors pledged hundreds of millions of euros on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris which…
Notre-Dame fire under control, Macron vows to rebuild
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Notre-Dame fire under control, Macron vows to rebuild

A raging fire that tore through Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris was under control early Tuesday after the blaze brought…
India fights to save its heritage havelis in the desert
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India fights to save its heritage havelis in the desert

The resplendent mansions of Bikaner once hosted royalty and wealthy merchants passing through India’s deserts with their caravans, but centuries…
Downtown Cairo battles to keep cosmopolitan heritage alive
Culture

Downtown Cairo battles to keep cosmopolitan heritage alive

Cairo’s downtown, with its old European-designed buildings, is wrestling to preserve its cultural heritage as Egypt readies a new capital…
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