Search | Articles

Jobs for young people to restore heritage in Yemen

Yemens Old City of Sanaa a UNESCO World Heritage Site has been inhabited continuously for 2500 years A centre for the spread of Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries it is famous for its multistoried rammedearth towerhouses and other remarkable vestiges of Yemens ancient civilizations

January 19, 2022

Women at the Forefront of Preserving Culture Heritage in Yemen

November 28, 2021

Seeing, hearing and telling the first signals of peace in Yemen

Aseell Sarih an awardwinning journalist from Sanaa Yemen took a historic photo in December 2018 showing the first public handshake since 2016 between representatives of the opposite parties in Yemens longrunning conflict in the Media Center at Johannesberg Castle Sweden

November 2, 2021

Unemployed University Graduate Finds Hope in Cultural Heritage

Safeguarding Historic Houses and their Inhabitants in Shiabm

Sameh Initiative

In August 2020 UNESCO GCC and Yemen office and RNW Media launched My Solution which is a call for proposals inviting young Yemenis to submit their ideas for achieving projects that could contribute to peace building in their country In its first cycle 7 proposals were selected to be supported with cash prizes amounting to $2000 USD pre initiative to achieve their objectives Among the winners was Sameh initiative a youth volunteerbased womenled effort working since 2015 on peace development and conflict resolution projects In the past years the initiative undertook several peace building projects targeting different segments of the society among which were children women journalists and others As part of the My Solution project Sameh initiative was able to train a new youth generation of peace builders and spread awareness among the youth on the importance of supporting peace building efforts The first activity involved expanding Samehs volunteers pool by 20 young women and men aged between 18 and 24 years old who were trained for 3 days on the basics of peace building and conflict resolution The handson capacity building activity also involved practical components and a transfer of knowledge from the older generation of volunteers to the new one

Breaking Gender Barriers in Protecting Culture Heritage in Yemen

Restoring Hope in the Perspectives of Yemeni youth about the Peace and The Future of Yemen

Shroq Alramadi is a Yemeni young woman who lived through the invasion of the city of Mukallah Hadhramout by assailants pleading allegiance to AlQaeada in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP in 2016 Soon after AQAP was driven away from Mukallah by government forces Shroq and her fellow colleagues had a purpose engraved deep inside them it is to engage in activities that rejects violence and conflict in all its forms while concurrently making every attempt to revive Yemeni and Hadhrami culture and providing space for Yemeni artists to bring out the creativeself inside them

February 18, 2021

Young Yemeni Fisherman Employed in Heritage Rehabilitation

February 9, 2021

Suhira from Sana'a: The treasure behind the house

October 7, 2020

Bringing back our Homes: Testimony from The Old City of Sana’a

October 5, 2020

Youth of Sanaa Laying the Stones of Hope

September 29, 2020