Emad Khalil- UNESCO Meeting of State Parties and other events This funding presented the oppotunity to attend a number of events in Paris between June 12th and 16th, 2023. Exchange Day” on major current issues concerning underwater cultural heritage (12/6/2023). It included several presentations in the framework of the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences. Ninth […]
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Survey on impacts of maritime archaeology projects in the Eastern Mediterranean We would like to invite you to take part in the following survey on the impacts of maritime archaeology projects in the Eastern Mediterranean. The survey – part of the research undertaken by the Dr Arturo Rey da Silva, HFF Scholar, at the University
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The Opening of the Blue House Beirut On 30th March 2023, trustees of the Honor Frost Foundation, the HFF Lebanon team and representatives from ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts), as well as the Directorate General of Antiquities, Beirut Heritage Initiative and many other guests gathered to celebrate the opening of the Blue House. On
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5th HFF Policy Forum “Archaeology and Marine Development in the eastern Mediterranean” The Fifth HFF Policy Forum “Archaeology and Marine Development in the eastern Mediterranean” was successfully organized at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, on 27 April 2023. The meeting was organized in hybrid format to allow some participants and speakers, as well as HFF Trustees
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Hassan HajjAli- 24th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) The Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) hosted its 24th annual meeting from February 2-4, 2023, in Udine, Italy. a program of the UniTwin Underwater Archaeological Network, organized by the University of Udine with the assistance of GAMA and Akdeniz University. The Symposium’s main subject was “Ideas that
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Sirine Saad El-Dine Ghiye- First Arabic Building Capacity for Underwater Culture Heritage Course The purpose of this course was to gaining skills in building capacity in maritime archeology and marine culture heritage for Maritime archeologists and related fields. The course ran for 10 days from 26 Feb – 9 March 2023. I was one of
Sami El-Jammal- Research on Bronze Objects from Sidon As part of my second master’s thesis, I am conducting a research on the bronze objects of the Persian period found in Sidon, focusing on the metallurgical production in the city-state and the role of bronze metallurgy in Sidonian society in particular and in Phoenician society in
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MAGS 2023 Bursaries Nada Nofal- Egypt From 1st to 3rd of March, I’ve attended the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) in Archaeological Research Unit, in Cyprus University. There I was presenting on Bridging the Gap between Public Engagement with Maritime Archaeology in the Arab Region, Egypt Case Study. The conference was a great opportunity to
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Congratulations Ziad Morsy! The Foundation is delighted to congratulate Ziad Morsy on the successful defence of his PhD thesis on Nile boats and riverine traditional communities in Egypt! Ziad began his PhD research in 2016 and has contributed to projects in both CMA at the University of Southampton and the CMAUCH at the University of
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MAGS 2023 The Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) was first established in 2018 to allow young researchers at the Master, PhD, and early post-doctoral stages to engage with conference attendance and paper presentation in front of an audience composed of peers and like-minded scholars. The Steering and Organising Committees are aware of and sensitive to the fact
