Saudi Cultural Mission at Tunis Book Fair Holds Workshop on Journalism

The workshop's main objective was to address the challenges faced by traditional Arab media. SPA
The workshop's main objective was to address the challenges faced by traditional Arab media. SPA
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Saudi Cultural Mission at Tunis Book Fair Holds Workshop on Journalism

The workshop's main objective was to address the challenges faced by traditional Arab media. SPA
The workshop's main objective was to address the challenges faced by traditional Arab media. SPA

The Saudi cultural mission’s pavilion held a workshop on Journalism and Transformation at the 38th edition of the Tunis International Book Fair.

It was attended by several intellectuals, media professionals, and writers from both Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.

The workshop's main objective was to address the challenges faced by traditional Arab media in renewing their discourse and media content to ensure continuity, particularly with the growing interest and follow-up of the public in social media.

The workshop is part of the cultural program the Saudi cultural attaché organized in Tunis in cooperation with the Saudi Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission in the Kingdom.



UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
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UN Puts 4th Century Gaza Monastery on Endangered Site List

The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File
The Saint Hilarion complex dates back to the fourth century. Mahmud HAMS / AFP/File

The Saint Hilarion complex, one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East, has been put on the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites in danger due to the war in Gaza, the body said Friday.
UNESCO said the site, which dates back to the fourth century, had been put on the endangered list at the demand of Palestinian authorities and cited the "imminent threats" it faced.
"It's the only recourse to protect the site from destruction in the current context," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, told AFP, referring to the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
In December, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict decided to grant "provisional enhanced protection" -- the highest level of immunity established by the 1954 Hague Convention -- to the site.
UNESCO had then said it was "already concerned about the state of conservation of sites, before October 7, due to the lack of adequate policies to protect heritage and culture" in Gaza.
The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 39,175 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.