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EUROMED HERITAGE IV MARE NOSTRUM DECEMBER 2010 NewsLetter 3

NewsLetter3 December2010

www.eh4-marenostrum.net [email protected]

1. In this issue, summary.

By Calro Alberto Garzonio DiCR, Italia.

Dear Mare Nostrum Partners and Associates, Dear Mare Nostrum Friends, With this third news letter we are announcing for 2011, a renovated edition of our news letter that, quarterly, will accompany now-on our project activities. Each news letter will be, at the same time, a mirror of our performances as Euromed Heritage project network and a thematic approach to the challenging issues related to Mare Nostrum fields of action, including experts contributions and insights.

In this third news letter you will find some of the activities, events and products, performed by MN during the second part of 2010:

Has happened

Mare Nostrum steering committee meeting in Florence (Italy).

Short Mare Nostrum stories

The Mare Nostrum “Melkart” logo story, Beirut (Lebanon). The thalatta-thalatta (the sea – the sea) story in Rhodes (Greece).

Main Mare Nostrum Stories

Community architecture in Tyre (Lebanon). Mare Nostrum scientific field mission in Tartous (Syria). Photo gallery, from Mare

Nostrum heritage partner sites

Malta, Tas-Silg Phoenician sanctuary. Tyre, heritage and port activities.

Latest news

Rhodes (Greece), Mare Nostrum conference «The Phoenicians: their journey around the Mediterranean». Mare Nostrum in the EUROMED HERITAGE IV- Workshop on Management of Heritage places Petra (Jordan). Mare Nostrum in the EUROMED HERITAGE IV-Training Workshop in Nicosia (Cyprus) on “Cultural Mapping”.

Extracts from Mare Nostrum interviews in Rhodes

Mare Nostrum calendar

We are inviting you all, along the next stops of our Phoenician Mediterranean Heritage Trail, and we wish you a Happy New Year.

Florence, December 2010.

http://www.eh4-marenostrum.net/

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2. Has happened.

Mare Nostrum Steering Committee meeting in Florence (Italy) 30

August 2010

A new management staff appointed by the lead partner DiCR for MN, started operating from July 2010. In order to communicate and transmit to partners and associates a renovated working agenda and schedule activities, a strategic meeting was held in Florence calling the five MN partners.

In this meeting participated: from DiCR Carlo Alberto Garzonio, Grazia Tucci, Roberto Sabelli, Michele Coppola, Lucia Azzalin, Fabrizio Fuccello, Giorgio Risicaris; from USJ/MAJAL-ALBA Liliane Buccianti Barakat and Claudine Abdelmassih; from Municipality of Tyre Clementine Laratte; Georges Zouain EH4 Project Manager and Alberto Brizio from HYDEA. Partners from Medieval City of Rhodes and Paralleli, had a video conference during the meeting.

The output of the meeting was an action plan of intensive activities, shared by MN partners. Such activities are supposed to be undertaken until the next Tyre meeting and be completed by the end of 2010, finalizing foreseen deliverables.

The agenda and the report of the Florence meeting can be downloaded by the MN web-site www.eh4-marenostrum.net and by the “Euromed Heritage IV” web-site restricted area of MN www.euromedheritage.net

Mare Nostrum partners during the Florence meeting of the MN Steering Committee 30 August 2010


http://www.euromedheritage.net/


3. Short Mare Nostrum stories.

The Melkart logo story. BRANDING THE CRAFTSMEN’S ITINERARY

One of the planned actions for Mare Nostrum’s awareness raising campaign is the creation of a tourist brochure on artisan activities in the MN heritage sites. As first step is created by MN a brand for an itinerary and for the local products alongside it. After a

research on the Phoenician culture, USJ/MAJAL proposed the name “MELKART” which was the name of the main god of Tyre (from the Phoenician “Milk-Qart “King of the City”). He was the protector of the city of Tyre and its activities. Some even refer to him as the god of craftsmen. In the word MELKART, we can also find the anagram of the word M-A-R-K-E-T, referring to the trade

activities which spread a common culture along the Mediterranean coasts, the first two letters being those of “Mediterranean” and the last three being “Art”.

To this aim, a logo design competition was organized

among 17 students from the ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut) at the Department of Graphic Design. An internal vote was then launched among all Partners and Associates of the project MARE NOSTRUM. The winner was the student Marie-José Issa who was also asked to elaborate the handicraft pamphlet: she came up with a fascinating brochure which brings back to the fantastic world of Phoenician crafts.

By Claudine Abdelmassih

(MAJAL-IUA-ALBA, Lebanon).

You can see it in our website:

www.eh4-marenostrum.net

The proposals in competition and the winning one.



The thalatta-thalatta (the sea – the sea) story in Rhodes (Greece).

The House of Europe in Rhodes, in the frame of the European project «Mare Nostrum», with the support of the Prefecture of the Dodecanese and the Municipality Office of the Medieval City of Rhodes, organized a «musical evening» at the courtyard of the

Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 20.30h.

The program included music from the six participating in the project

«Mare Nostrum» Mediterranean countries: Lebanon, Syria, Malta, Italy, Tunisia and Greece. The band’s name was «Silk Caravan» The performing musicians were: Sapfo Stavrides-voice, Elli Yannaki-Uti,vocals, Kostas Ghionis-contrabasso, Anna Nikitiades-ric, darbuka, kahon, bedir, Vassilis Costides-ghitar, Dimitris Hatziplis-ghitar, mandolin and Nassuan Farok, voice,violin.

The repertory songs were sung in their native tongue and were greatly appreciated by the 400 – people audience, that filled every bit of the open-air courtyard of the Museum, under an almost full moon light!

By Anna Haritou, House of Europe in Rhodes (Greece).


During the thalatta-thalata MN concert in Rhodes

4. Main Mare Nostrum stories.

Community architecture in Tyre (Lebanon).

Activities of the Mare Nostrum Work Package 2 “Community Architecture”, performed in our

Tyre Phoenician heritage site, are completed. The MN project partner, Paralleli-Euromediterranean Institute,

managed a pilot experience of participatory planning in Tyre. This experience aimed – in line with the overall objectives of the Mare Nostrum project – on one side at contributing to the promotion and awareness-raising of the heritage value of historic Mediterranean port-cities along

the Phoenician routes, on the other side at suggesting guidelines for new tourist itineraries in the cities of reference.

The participatory planning experience was developed through 7 main steps during two missions in Tyre, Lebanon (February 2010 and April 2010): 1) Mapping the needs: interviews with local stakeholders; 2) two technical meetings and a 1 survey with the Municipality; 3) two technical meetings with project

team and partners; 4) on-site interviews with selected local actors and long time inhabitants of the neighbourhood; 5) two Focus Groups (Themes: a-Community active role in touristic development and heritage preservation; b-enhancing the touristic offer of Tyre); 6) Three neighbourhood walks; 7) Six guide lines for the definition of new sustainable tourist itineraries.

A preliminary mapping of the area provided a detailed albeit concise


picture of the situation in Tyre in relation to tourism, highlighting difficulties but also strengths of the sector.

The following participatory planning experience - initially focused on the old town of Tyre, extend subsequently to the whole touristic system in the city urban agglomeration and related inland and coastline territory, including the sea and undersea - involved the local stakeholders (local actors, stakeholders, community leaders and local administration) into active discussions and participated activities, aimed at raising awareness, enhancing the knowledge and the value given to the tangible and intangible heritage, and to foster the suggestion of alternative/ sustainable tourist routes linking

the sea front, the city core to the most important archaeological, historical and naturalistic sites (in line with the overall objectives of the Mare Nostrum project).

The Tyre community proved – in our opinion – to be rich in cultural, civic, technical and professional resources that might broadly

contribute to the project’s development in all phases (concept, communication, technical solutions, construction, maintenance and long-term management).

The participatory planning process led us to define six guidelines to be taken into account to define new touristic itineraries: 1) A right place for the Mare Nostrum info point; 2) Connecting the waterfront; 3) See

the undersea; 4) enlarge Tyre; 5) Arts & crafts for the shopping Tourist; 6) Multicultural and multi confessional.

By Raffaella Giordana, Paralleli (Italy).

On the Mare Nostrum web-site you can find the Community Architecture reports for heritage site of Tyre as well as the previous one for Rhodes. www.eh4-marenostrum.net

MN, connecting the Tyre waterfronts



Mare Nostrum scientific field mission in Tartous (Syria).

The field mission “Mare Nostrum - A Heritage Trail along the Phoenician maritime routes and through the historic port cities” was held from April 26, 2010 to May 7, 2010 in the Governorate of Tartous. The on site research was conducted in accordance with the WP4 objectives: on the one hand a survey campaign was set up to acquire metric and qualitative data on the structures chosen as samples; this provided the necessary information for the systematic analysis(chronologic phases, construction techniques, state of preservation) required to prepare conservation guidelines; on the other hand an enormous amount of photographic and video documentation was collected for the 3D models that were produced in the first phase; this documentation is being used for multimedia popularization and communication of the most interesting sites: architectural heritage, landscape and archaeological sites in the

territory of Tartous, Amrit and Arwad. In particular: • integrated topographic and laser scanning techniques were used to provide a metric survey of the Knights’ Chapel and the urban spaces inside the Citadel; • the most interesting parts of Tartous (the Citadel and the Cathedral/Museum) and the surrounding areas (Arwad Island and the archaeological site at Amrit) were photographed for 3D modeling for communication projects (virtual tours, integrated video and multimedia products on CD / DVD, valuable material for improving the communication capabilities of web sites). Given the scale of the survey, the methods used (laser scanning, topography and photogrammetry) make possible to integrate the documentation previously collected in order to achieve the project’s goals: defining re-qualification projects, tourist

itineraries and explanatory panels. The digital nature of the data also means that the information can be structured in such a way as to facilitate on line use. By Grazia Tucci, DiCR (Italy). The scientific survey campaign in Tartous for Work Package 4 “Brand the Port-City sites physical connection” is completed and the Scientific Report is published on the project web-site www.eh4-marenostrum.net and on the “Euromed Heritage IV” web-site restricted area of MN www.euromedheritage.net




Some deliverables of the scientific survey campaign in Tartous

Playing with children in Tartous.


5. Photo gallery, from Mare Nostrum

heritage partner sites.

Mare Nostrum in Malta.

View of Tas-Silg Phoenician sanctuary, the Maltese Mare Nostrum heritage site.

Marsaxlokk port-city, the MN ancient phoenician harbor, near Tas-Silg.


Mare Nostrum in Tyre.

Heritage ruins facing the Tyre port.

Fishing preparing in Fishermen Syndicate of Tyre.

By Giorgio Risicaris, DiCR (Italy).


6.Latest news

Rhodes Mare Nostrum conference «The Phoenicians: their journey

around the Mediterranean»

The project Associate “House of Europe in Rhodes”, in the frame of our Euromed Heritage IV project «Mare Nostrum» and with the support of the Municipality of Rhodes and the Municipality Office of the Medieval City of Rhodes, organized the Conference: «The Phoenicians: their journey around the Mediterranean» with main

speaker Mrs. Maritsa Mandikou-Hoedlemoser, in the «Aktaeon»

Conference Hall on Friday, November 19, 2010 at 19.00h.,

with simultaneous projection of maps and pictures of archaeological sites and finds. About 180 people, the Mayor of Rhodes and a former-minister, assisted this Mare Nostrum event. By Anna Haritou, House of Europe in Rhodes (Greece).

Mare Nostrum in the EUROMED HERITAGE IV- Workshop on

Management of Heritage places Petra (Jordan).

Organized by the RMSU on May 17-19, 2010 in the wonderful heritage site of Petra (Jordan), the workshop aimed at giving to the participants the chance to be informed on the scientific approach ragarding the management of heritage sites giving them notions on methodology, techniques, legal frame and international conventions. Many experts were invited to present their work and give their opinion on management issues. The site of Petra was used as a case study. After a full immersion in the site, an exercise on SWOT analysis involved all participants in the elaboration of Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats analysis. Claudine Abdelmassih (MAJAL-IUA-ALBA, Lebanon) was representing the Project MARE NOSTRUM together with other participants from various Euromed Heritage projects such as Athena, Mutual Heritage, Hamamed, Siwa, MedLiHer, Montada, REMEE, a wonderful experience and exchange of know how.

By Claudine Abdelmassih (MAJAL-IUA-ALBA,

Lebanon).


Mare Nostrum in the EUROMED HERITAGE IV- Training Workshop in

Nicosia (Cyprus) on “Cultural Mapping”.

WORKSHOP REPORT

I attended the workshop organized in Nicosia (Cyprus) on 17/19 June 2010, by the Euromed Heritage IV program as the head of the Tourism and Cultural planning and Partner of Mare Nostrum project.

The airplane ticket and accommodation were offered by the RMSU. I arrived at Larnaca airport with Mr. Omar HALABLAB, general manager of the Ministry of Culture in Lebanon on Wednesday the 16

th of June

and left in the night of Saturday 19th.

The workshop was organised by the University of Nicosia and the London Metropolitan University. It took place in the University of Nicosia. The agenda included conferences, Cypriot case-studies, a participative exercise on cultural mapping with an outdoor session and the visit of parts of the old city of Nicosia.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

- introduce participants to the methods, functions, and current and potential application of cultural mapping providing a tool for present and future practice and policy of project partners ad effect appropriation

- present well-established international examples of cultural mapping and its application

- introduce current cultural mapping in the host-city of Nicosia

- introduce creative approaches combining cultural mapping exercises with promotion of public awareness

- establish synergies and relationships across the projects: sharing, exchanging ideas.

CONFERENCES

Thursday 17 June 2010

In the opening speech, Julie Scott present the aim and the

objectives of this work shop and presented Leonardo Chiesi from Firenze university (Italy).

Léonardo Chiesi (Italy)

His lecture “Orientation/overview of the “Cultural mapping” agenda :

methodologies and applications” was on the process of collecting,

recording, analyzing, synthesizing information in order to describe

cultural resources, networks links and patterns of usage of a given community or a group.

He gave some methodological examples such as community mapping in Bethlehem, of Montalbino in Toscana and the type of

maps (data collection, data analysis, techniques..)

The guest Expert : Nada Atrash (Palestine)

Her lecture on “Cultural mapping in practice – an example from

Palestine” was on the emergency plan for the revitalization of the historic town of Beit-Sahour and Bethléem.

The target group are children from 12 to 14 years old among 8 schools in which many workshops has been done. Children were

taken to visit the historic core of the city and then they had to draw their desired city in a map.

All this job was realised with the municipality and a Commission of 80 persons.

Cyprus case studies

David Officer introduce the Cypriot case-study and the organisation/methodology of the “Voices” Project in Nicosia South.

Than Yiouli Taki made a presentation on inter-culturalism, Community and violence in Pafos –Gate (Nicosia)

In the last session of the afternoon, Nicos Philippou presented

A video “Where shall I go”

A film on a portrait of migrant Community’s in Cyprus

And then “Thinking the city” (2002-2005-Med Voices)

Friday 18 june 2010

Site visit : the Old city of Nicosia (in the morning)

Pafos Gate – Green line – Municipal market – Khan – Ledra St.

In the afternoon :

Andreas Lang made a lecture on “Mapping as a participative

exercise – introduction to principles and some project examples from publicworks”

Then he prepared the audience for practical mapping exercise by drawing a cup of coffee.


Saturday 19 June 2010-07-09

Outdoor session in the city : participants divided by group. The goal

of the exercise was to make a small survey on the traditional way of drinking coffee in Cyprus.

Nada Osman and me composed a team. We asked 2 Greek Cypriot: Stefanos the tailor man and a young policeman, some information

on their first coffee of the day. Than we passed the green line and asked to Turkish Cypriot playing backgammon in the public Market

about their first coffee of the day. It was an interesting experience.

In the afternoon, each group made a presentation of the results of

their surveys.

We finished the workshop by a feed back and evaluation of these 3

days.

By Liliane Buccianti-Barakat, Tourism and Cultural Planning Section, Department of Geography, Saint-Joseph University (Lebanon).

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Organizers RMSU

Christiane Dabdoub Nasser (EH4-Belgium)

Christophe Graz (EH4-Belgium)

Georges Zouein (EH4-Belgium)

EXPERTS

Nada Atrash (CCHP Guest Expert-Palestine)

Léonardo Chiesi (Università di Firenze-Italy)

Andreas Lang (PW-UK)

Julie Scott (London Met university)

Jonathan Karkut (London Met university)

Youli Taki (INDEX-Cyprus)

Chris Malapitan (Media designer-Cyprus)

David Officer (INDEX-Cyprus)

Haris Pellapaisiotis (University of Nicosia-Cyprus)

OBSERVERS

Anna Sampson (UNDP Partnership for the future)

Fatma Terlik (UNDP Partnership for the future)

Nada Osman (Syria Trust for Development)

Kosta Pavlowitch (ENPI Info Center, Cyprus)

FOUNDATIONS

Rula Awad (Ministry of Culture in Jordan)

Rana Habahbeh (Ministry of Culture in Jordan)

Khayriyah Amr (Jordan Museum)

PARTICIPANTS FROM EH4 PROJECTS

Mrs

/Mr.

NAME, Surname Organisation Country Project/depart.

Ms. ABDELMALEK Gehanne

Unesco-Egypt Egypt Medliher

Mr. AHMED IBRAHIM Ehab Ahmed

Egyptian national Comission for the

Unesco

Egypte Medliher

Mr. HALABLAB Omar Ministère de la

Culture

Lebanon Medliher

Mr. SEDER Nasser JO NATCOM Jordan Medliher

Ms ABDELMALEK

Gehanne

IFPO Syria Hammamed

Ms. ATASSI Sarab IFPO Syria Hammamed

Ms. DARWICHE Aicha IFPO Syria Hammamed

Ms. ANGELI Debora COSË Morocco SIWA-Tangiers

Ms. CONTI Ilaria COSPE Morocco SIWA-Tangiers

Mr. ELIDRISSE

Abdelaziz

Museum of

Kasbah inTanger

France SIWA-Tangiers

Mr. EID Abdullah Siwa Egypt SIWA-Tangiers

Ms. BUCCIANTI-BARAKAT Liliane

USJ Lebanon Mare Nostrum

Ms. TUCCI Grazia Università di

Firenze

Italy Mare Nostrum

Mr. BOUKRAA Ridha AERE Tunisia REMEE

Mr. METAIR Kouider Association Bel Horizon

Algérie REMEE

Mr. CASANOVAS

Xavier

CAATB Spain Montada

Mr. RAHMONI Nabil Association Sala-

Almoustaqbal

Morocco Montada

Ms. SAFI Shatha Riwaq-Center for

Architectural Conservation

Palestine Mutual

Heritage


7. Extracts from Mare Nostrum

interviews in Rhodes.

“I was born in the old town, now I’ve moved back to live here with my family. Together with other inhabitants we founded an association. The situation is desperate. The behavior of people in bars and clubs is out of control. There are no facilities for those who live here. We take care of tourists, but who does take care of the residents?”

Zafeiris Skandaliaris, Rhodes, Association of residents “Inside the wall”.

“I was born in Kalimnos and my parents moved to Rhodes when I was three months old. I’ve lived in the old town for 67 years, moving to the new part is too expensive. I like here, tourists are nice but the area is very loud”.

Maritza, 76 years old, inhabitant of the old town of Rhodes.

“I was born in Athens. We moved to Rhodes 20 years ago, for my father’s business. I’m a carpenter, I work also for the church, I made the altar in the back. My workshop is here in the old city, my house is in the new part”.

A carpenter met in the St. Panteleimon’s Church.


“I’ve been working in this school for 24 years and recently I turned down a job offer from another school. I live in the new town. Everyday I walk for more than two hours to get here. I love this area and its atmosphere”.

A teacher of the 10th

elementary school of Rhodes.

“My house is an important cultural heritage building, property of the Municipality. As they have no funds for the restoring, they rent it to us. We do small things for the maintenance”.

An inhabitant of the old town of Rhodes.

“I was born in Rhodes in 1930. When I was 14, I was deported to Auschwitz. Out of over 5.000 people only 5 Jewish families remain today in Rhodes. Do you see the walls of the old town? When I was young those walls were surrounded by houses. You can still see the traces. My grandfather’s house was there”.

Samuel Modiano “Sami”, 79 years old, Rhodes native, survived the Nazi concentration camp.

By Raffaella Giordana, Paralleli (Italy).


8. Mare Nostrum calendar.

Events and meetings in Agenda, October 2010 – April 2011.

Scientific campaign in Tyre heritage site for WP 4 activities, 17-21 October 2010.

Beirut &Tyre, MN Third Transnational meeting,19-21 October 2010.

Tyre, MN round table of local key stakeholders, 18 October 2010.

Heritage: a model for sustainable development - How to improve energy performances in European and Mediterranean architectural and urban heritage? (Paris, France, 4-5 October 2010). Thematic workshop organised by ICOMOS and EUROMED HERITAGE 4. Mare Nostrum participated with the project manager.

Pair meetings in Malta of Mare Nostrum Associates “Integrated Heritage Malta” and “DELARPA” with the DiCR project manager, 29-30 November 2010.

Strengthening existing institutional and legal frameworks: RMSU seminar on “Education and

Training” (Algiers, Algeria, 12-15 December 2010). Mare Nostrum participated with Ms Liliane

Buccianti-Barakat SAINT-JOSEPH UNIVERSITY

Rhodes, MN round table of local key stakeholders, 20 January 2011.

Rhodes, MN Steering Committee Meeting, 21 January 2011

Malta, Tas-Silg, MN Fourth Transnational meeting, 11-14 April 2011.

Euromed Heritage IV, “Mare Nostrum”

project, News Lettre n°3, 2010.

© Dipartimento Costruzioni e Restauro,

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. December 2010.

EH4 MN150-825.

This News letter has been produced with

the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the

sole responsibility of Mare Nostrum partners and can in no way be taken to

reflect the views of the European Union.

Euromed Heritage web site,

www.euromedheritage.net

Mare Nostrum project web site, www.eh4-

marenostrum.net

Mare Nostrum e-mail contact,

[email protected]

Mare Nostrum coordinator

Università degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento Costruzioni e Restauro,

Sezione di Restauro (Italy).

Mare nostrum partners

Rhodes municipality, Old Town Office (Greece)

Tyre municipality (Lebanon)

USJ/Université Saint Joseph, Faculté des

Lettres et des Sciences Humaines & University of Balamand/MAJAL, Academic

Laboratory for Construction and Reconstruction (Lebanon).

Paralleli, Istituto Euromediterraneo del

Nord Ovest (Italy).

Mare Nostrum associates

DELARPA, Développement de l’Artisanat et du Patrimoine (Tunisia).

University of the Aegean, Laboratory of Tourism Research and Studies (ETEM)

(Greece).

The House of Europe in Rhodes (Greece).

Associazione Culturale Samotracia (Italy).

Integrated Heritage Management IHM

(Malta).

Direction Générale Antiquités et

Monuments DGAM (Syria)




mailto:[email protected]

http://www.usj.edu.lb/




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