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AMMAN — On Thursday 15th February, The Cultural Hub Bayt Yaish hosted a conference organised by The French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) in partnership with ICOMOS Jordan. Titled “The Jordanian and French cooperation in Jerash: Past, Present and Future”, the event was featured by French scholar Julie Bonnéric.
AMMAN — The French nobleman, archaeologist and orientalist Louis Felicien de Saulcy(1807-1880) left the first detailed account about Khirbat Faris, a site on the Karak Plateau, with ceramics from the Nabataean and Middle Islamic periods. Saulsy visited the site in 1851 while in 1896 Alois Musil(1868-1944) described the site as “ a well preserved tower and ruined houses”. The
Hatta, Dubai’s captivating mountain town, has been rising in global and regional profile over the last few years as a prominent travel destination. Often referred to as the 'Highlands of Dubai', Hatta has transformed into one of the Middle East’s most enc
AMMAN — Southern Levant was in the Egyptian orbit around 884AD and it continued to be during the Middle Islamic Period (1000AD-1500AD). It has often been assumed that Transjordan had been a peripheral area during the Abbasid Period when Abbasids transferred the capital to Bagdad. With the expansion of Fatimid control in 970AD, it was characterised by building military outposts
AMMAN — The Karak Castle has a prominent role in history of crusades and post-crusade Mamluk-Ottoman periods. The fortress is part of the Middle Islamic (1100-1516) and Late Islamic (1516-1918) periods and therefore attracts attention of historians, archaeologists and architects as a place where different socio-economic and political trends took place.