This magazine on FLIPBOARD is a collection of news items from international media, mainly in English and German language on urban cultural heritage in danger in the Middle East. I started this collection of news items in 2017, when I began working on the on-line toolkit POST-CONFLICT RECOVERY OF URBAN CULTURAL HERITAGE that is now hosted on the servers of the German Archeological Institute DAI.
Many of these news focus in particular on the Old City of Aleppo in Syria, where I have helped to set up a technical cooperation project for the rehabilitation of the historic city centre in the 1990s, after UNESCO had declared it a World Heritage Site in 1987.
The magazine also covers a number of other prominent cities and heritage sites in other countries, namely in Iraq and Yemen. It further includes more general articles on initiatives, concepts and approaches for recovering and reconstructing war-damaged heritage cities and sites.