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Signing Ceremony of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region
Sunday 24th February 2013
ITU Workshop on Telecommunication Service Quality
Regulatory Frameworks and Experience-Driven Networking
26 November 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
©ITU/D.Woldu
Memoirs:
-Al-Nakba Memorial: The Palestinian Memories of Displacement
-Damascene Memories
Al-Nakba (meaning catastrophe in English) Memorial and Museum project is practice-based research, conducted by Omar Mohammad, as part of larger PhD research in Landscape Architecture at The University of Edinburgh. The main thesis examines user’s perception and the psychological ‘transactional’ relationship with contemporary anti-memorial landscape, together with its abstract interpretive design.
By 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes, and more than 500 villages were destroyed. The proposed Al-Nakba Memorial project is dedicated to the memories of Palestinians’ displacement from their homeland, and works as an evolving environments for personal profile and Nakba oral history with photography, maps and documents archives. It would act as an interactive working theatre for interpretation, actions and refection by refugees and other memorial visitors.
The conceptual design framework is inspired by the Palestinian natural and cultural landscape, and the transactional and emotional relationship between Palestinians and their lands. Lands as places of living, refuge and harvesting. This relationship with land was expressed in the design through the fragmentation, transformation and formulation of Palestinian geography into new-flux spatial configuration.
The exhibition will also include some photographs from the collaborative project 'Damascene Memories' about evoking remote memories of a place through design and photography, with Syrian photographer and architect Ettizan Ghuzlan.
7 October at 17:00 until 14 October
Tent Gallery, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
In 2009, the Jackson Street Drawbridge was under reconstruction.
Fast forward to 2012, and it is Wacker Drive that is being rebuilt.
Downtown, West Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
Jackson Blvd. at Riverside Plaza, across from Union Station.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009.
Costumed guides show people round Strutt's North mill as part of the Derwent Valley Mills open days in October 2017
Within the framework of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women”, UNIC-Beirut - in partnership with the Theater Club at the Balamand University in Lebanon - produced a theater play on the issue of violence against women targeting school students; a work that was fully supported and sponsored by the Lebanese Minister of Education and Higher Education Elias Bou Saab.
The play, entitled “We Are All Humans”, presents real cases of violence against women within families in Lebanon through a vibrant script and a combination of gestures, songs, music and dance performed by university students. It tackles the hereditary violence against women and sheds light on physical and moral violence practiced directly or indirectly against girls in society.(credit:UNIC Beirut)
The framework from old glass blocks casts interesting shadows in a light well in the basement ruins of the Metropolis Hotel, Nevada
On 25 of November 2014, in the framework of 16 Days of Activism, the State Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan organized a conference under the motto “Empowerment for Women. Progress for Society”, together with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Counterpart International and Women's Association for Rational Development.
Chairperson of the State Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs, Ms. Hijran Huseynova, Vice-President of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Mr. Pramila Patten, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Mr. Antonius Broek, Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan, Mr. Dereck Hogan, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Oruj Zalov and Member of Parliament, Ms. Ganira Pashayeva made a speech at the event.
The representatives of ministries, state agencies, international organizations, embassies, civil society and media participated at the conference.
16 Day of Activism Campaign against Gender Violence is an international campaign annually held from 25 November –International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to 10 December – Human Rights Day. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness on the violence against women as human rights in local, national, regional and international level.
Signing Ceremony of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region
Sunday 24th February 2013
The Giant Bible of Mainz
The Giant Bible is composed of 459 vellum skin leaves, each measuring 22 × 16 inches. The pages are fully ruled in faint brown ink, which served as guides for the scribe as he wrote out the text. The text is organized in two columns of sixty lines per page, and the letter forms employed by the scribe are large, erect, laterally compressed black letter forms. These forms were common in manuscripts produced in the middle and lower regions of the Rhine River but were not exclusive to Mainz. Two tones of black ink were used for the text, and the chapter headings and paragraphs were highlighted with alternating red and blue ink in both volumes. The manuscript is bound in full contemporary pigskin, without decoration. The text block is secured by nine chords with head and tail bonds of red, white, and green silk. The scribe who created the manuscript recorded his progress by writing the specific date when he began and finished a particular section of the Bible. He began his work on April 4, 1452, and ended on July 9, 1453—fifteen months after beginning the project.
The most distinguishing characteristic of the Giant Bible are the illuminations that embellish the text. The two volumes are decorated with patterned initial letters, historiated initials (large letters that contain an identifiable scene or figures), and guilt-burnished initials. Finally crafted decorative borders are found on five pages of the first volume. These borders are adorned with a branch, vine, and floral pattern that acts as a framework supporting artistic renderings of rabbits, hunters, stags, princesses, bears, and the like, all exquisitely designed and painted in bright primary colors. These border designs are the chief evidence that link the Giant Bible to the city of Mainz and are continuously being studied by experts on medieval illuminated manuscripts.
The Giant Bible of Mainz was purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald and gifted to the Library of Congress on April 4, 1952, five hundred years after the manuscript was begun. The Giant Bible originally belonged to Heinrich von Stockheim, a curator at the Cathedral of Mainz and his inscription appears on the first leaf of the manuscript. It remained in the Cathedral of Mainz until 1631, when the Bible was seized by King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden as a prize of war. The king gave the Bible to Bernhart, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, a member of his military guard who died in 1639. The Bible passed down through members of the Duke’s family until 1951, when Rosenwald purchased it through the bookseller H.P. Kraus for the Library of Congress.
Biblia Latina (Bible in Latin), probably Mainz, 1452-1453. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
The Giant Bible of Mainz is handwritten on vellum (parchment made from animal skin) and bound in two volumes. To protect against light damage and to preserve this important work, the volume on exhibition is exchanged with another every four months. The damaging effects of exposure to light are cumulative; therefore this case is illuminated with low intensity and low ultraviolet light that falls in the least damaging portion of the spectrum. The Bible rests on an inert, cast acrylic cradle that minimizes stress to its binding by uniformly supporting the covers and pages while the volume is open.
This case is designed to provide temperature and relative humidity levels that significantly slow chemical deterioration and prevent moisture content fluctuations that place stress on the volume. These preservation measures to ensure that this significant volume will be available to visitors for generations to come.
Signing Ceremony of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region
Sunday 24th February 2013
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