Umm Al-Jimāl's UNESCO World Heritage Nomination and Site Management Plan (2024) (original) (raw)
Related papers
Managing World Heritage Sites in Jordan
SAHJ, 2019
An implemented site management plan is –since a few years– a requirement for any new World Heritage site nomination as well as for older inscriptions. This substantial change in the World Heritage List nomination process is an opportunity for the State Parties to the World Heritage Convention to review their conservation management strategies and to introduce, where necessary, changes to improve delivery and implementation of these plans.
The UNESCO Contribution to Safeguarding and Preserving Jordan’s Cultural Heritage
Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology
UNESCO seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, sciences, and culture and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the 2030 Agenda. The present paper explores how UNESCO, the Jordanian government, and the local communities work together in the design and implementation of plans aimed at developing a knowledge-based economy, protecting Jordan’s natural environment and rich cultural heritage, promoting intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity, and in strengthening the institutionalization of culture for development. The present contribution is divided into two parts, the first covers the institutional/legislative framework; financial capacities of Jordanian institutions and describes the activities undertaken by UNESCO over the past years for the preservation of Jordan’s tangible heritage. The section shows UNESCO’s approach towards the conservation of sites from a more resilience-based perspective in an attempt to...
Assessing Umm el-Jimal's Potential for Heritage Tourism
Assessing Umm el-Jimal’s Potential for Heritage Tourism., 2017
The significance of the cultural archaeological heritage sites, however, is still not wholly expressed. This study will critically review the current interpretation policy for different archaeological sites. The objects of this research are heritage interpretation methods conducted by the authorized institutions in and around archaeological sites for heritage tourists. It examines organizational structure, process of intervention and existing interpretive facilities. Thus, this paper attempts to identify problems and perspectives for more efficient interpretive planning and then towards a better heritage management. It reviews modes of functions of interpretation and policies of key players at key archaeological sites in Jordan. Key archaeological sites’ literature sources on interpretation development and practice guide the study. The key literature sources were synthesized with descriptive data from on-site observation. In fact the weak standard of interpretive context at archaeological sites counters the appreciation of sites values and their integrity and bounds their management. Finally, the results of this study were intended to develop better interpretive programmes to meet archaeological sites visitors’ needs and heritage management objectives. The investigation of this study provides an important contribution to national heritage and interpretation studies on archaeological sites; besides, it attempts to illustrate practical and theoretical lessons for administration course of action towards heritage interpretation
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS), 2019
Press. JEMAHS is devoted to traditional, anthropological, social, and applied archaeologies of the eastern Mediterranean, encompassing both prehistoric and historic periods. The journal's geographic range spans three continents and brings together, as no academic periodical has done before, the archaeologies of Greece and the Aegean, Anatolia, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt, and North Africa. As the journal will not be identified with any particular archaeological discipline, the editors invite articles from all varieties of professionals who work on the past cultures of the modern countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Similarly, a broad range of topics will be covered including, but by no means limited to: Excavation and survey field results; Landscape archaeology and GIS; Underwater archaeology; Archaeological sciences and archaeometry; Material culture studies; Ethnoarchaeology; Social archaeology; Conservation and heritage studies; Cultural heritage management; Sustainable tourism development; and New technologies/virtual reality. Appearing four times a year in February, May, August, and November, the journal will engage professionals and scholars of archaeology and heritage studies as well as non-practitioners and students, both graduate and undergraduate. In addition to combining traditional and theoretical archaeological data and interpretation, the journal's articles may range from early prehistory to recent historical time periods. It also aims to publish accessible, jargon-free, readable, color-illustrated articles that will be informative for professional and non-professional readers. The journal does not publish unprovenanced artifacts purchased on the antiquities market or objects from private collections.
Archaeology In Jordan-2016-2017.pdf
Archaeology in Jordan, ACOR Newsletter, seasons 2016-2017, edited by J. D. M. Green, B.A. Porter and C.P. Shelton, 2018., 2018
The summary results of the Islamic Baydha Project, seasons 2016 and 2017 are reported on pages 74-75.
Islamic Heritage Sites in Jordan
Islamic Heritage Sites in Jordan
The book compiles almost 450 sites in Jordan with partly little known architectural and natural monuments of Islamic heritage. The focus is on places of prayer and general commemoration of the Islamic religion: mainly mosques, tombs of martyrs, sheikhs and scholars, but also memorials of Islamic history. The time span covered is the period from the early phase of the spread of Islam from the rule of the Rashidun caliphs to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the Hashemite Kingdom. The sequence of the individual places is in alphabetical order in the manner of a geographical gazetteer. The individual monuments are accompanied by descriptions, plans, sections and color photographs, which allow the user of the book to get a good idea of the character and state of preservation of the Islamic monument.