The Arab Capital of Culture (Arabic: عاصمة الثقافة العربية, romanized: ʿāṣima ath-thaqāfa al-ʿarabiyya) is an initiative taken by the Arab League under the UNESCO[1] Cultural Capitals Program to promote and celebrate Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab region.
Cultural capitals
| Year | City | Participating member |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Cairo[2] | Egypt |
| 1997 | Tunis[3] | Tunisia |
| 1998 | Sharjah[4] | United Arab Emirates |
| 1999 | Beirut[1] | Lebanon |
| 2000 | Riyadh[5] | Saudi Arabia |
| 2001 | Kuwait City[6] | Kuwait |
| 2002 | Amman[7] | Jordan |
| 2003 | Rabat[6] | Morocco |
| 2004 | Sana'a[8] | Yemen |
| 2005 | Khartoum[9] | Sudan |
| 2006 | Muscat[10] | Oman |
| 2007 | Algiers[11] | Algeria |
| 2008 | Damascus[12] | Syria |
| 2009 | Al-Quds (Jerusalem)[13][14] | State of Palestine[i] |
| 2010 | Doha[15] | Qatar |
| 2011 | Sirte | Libya |
| 2012 | Manama[16] | Bahrain |
| 2013 | Baghdad[17] | Iraq |
| 2014 | Tripoli[18] | Libya |
| 2015 | Constantine | Algeria |
| 2016 | Sfax | Tunisia |
| 2017 | Luxor[19] | Egypt |
| 2018 | Oujda[20] | Morocco |
| 2019 | Port Sudan[21] | Sudan |
| 2020 | Bethlehem[21] | State of Palestine |
| 2021 | Irbid[21] | Jordan |
| 2022 | Kuwait City[21] | Kuwait |
| 2023 | Tripoli[21] | Lebanon |
Map
Arab Capital of Culture.
Green designates current cities; red is for past cities; and blue for future cities.
See also
- American Capital of Culture – In the Americas, title awarded annually by American Capital of Culture, an NGO
- European Capital of Culture – Cities recognized by the European Union as culturally significant for Europe
Notes
| i. | ^ The award for Jerusalem was presented to "Palestine"[22] but Israel controls all of Jerusalem, including East Jerusalem (captured in the Six-Day War in 1967 and designated as a part of the Israeli-occupied territories), and unilaterally designated the whole of the city as its own indivisible capital, and has enacted the Jerusalem Law to that effect in a move denounced by the UN Security Council. Jerusalem was unilaterally designated as the capital of the State of Palestine (Arabic: دولة فلسطين, romanized: Dawlat Filastin), officially simply Palestine, by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1988, and again by the Palestinian Legislative Council in May 2002.[23] Palestine is a member of the Arab League and then Secretary-General Amr Moussa supported the Arab ministers' decision that Jerusalem be designated the Arab Capital of Culture for 2009. The city's final status awaits the outcome of future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (see "Negotiating Jerusalem", University of Maryland and Positions on Jerusalem for more information). In the context of the Arab Capital of Culture, the organising committee is Palestinian and the Israeli authorities have discouraged the holding of events in Jerusalem itself. |
References
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- ^ Sayyid Hamid, Hurreiz (2002). Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates. Routledge. p. 63. ISBN 0-7007-1413-8.
- ^ Peter Harrigan (July–August 2000). "Riyadh: Arab Cultural Capital 2000". Archived from the original on 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ a b "Para fomentar el debate democrático". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ^ Hada Sarhan (December 12, 2001). "Jordan braces for Amman Cultural Capital of the Arab World 2002". Jordan Embassy US (Original in Jordan Times). Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
- ^ "Yemen: Sana'a nominated as Arab Cultural Capital". Progressio. March 2, 2004. Retrieved 2009-08-28. [dead link]
- ^ Bernard Jacquot. "Khartoum, Arab Cultural Capital 2005". UNESCO. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
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- ^ "Damascus: The Arab cultural capital". Al Jazeera English. February 2, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ Capitals of Arab Culture - Jerusalem (2009) Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jerusalem: Capital of Arab Culture events jeopardized by occupation Archived 2013-07-02 at the Wayback Machine - Jerusalem was chosen in 2006
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- ^ Hi-tech amphitheatre 'a beacon of culture' Gulf Daily News
- ^ Iraqi Cultural Week opens[permanent dead link] Doha Press
- ^ http://e.gov.kw/News/KUNAMoreNews_Eng.aspx?NewsId=131146 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Kuwait Government Online; News
- ^ "Luxor Capital of Arab Culture events well underway this July". Egypt Today. July 17, 2017.
- ^ "Oujda Named Capital of Arab Culture for 2018". International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies. December 2, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "The project of Arab cultural capitals and cities: 22 years later, diagnosis and perspectives". Culture of Peace News Network. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- ^ Under Occupation: Celebrations and Contradictions of al-Quds Capital of Arab Culture 2009 Jerusalem Quarterly, Summer 2009. "The celebration of al-Quds Jerusalem as the 2009 Capital of Arab Culture has been debated ever since the decision was made by the Ministers of Arab Culture in 2006 and accepted by Palestine."
- ^ "2002 Basic Law | the Palestinian Basic Law". Archived from the original on 2010-03-16. Retrieved 2009-08-07.