Fusion Cuisine and Bedouin Handcraft: the Transformative Power of Heritage Preservation in Saudi Arabia

2015/05/01 by Heather Radke, Maha Al-Senan · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Archaeology #Art #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation #Cultural heritage #Cultural heritage management #Environmental ethics #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #History #Identity (music) #Industrial heritage #Pedagogy #Philosophy #Political science #Power (physics) #Socioeconomic Development in MENA #Sociology #Transformative learning

paper · doi:10.1525/tph.2015.37.2.89

published in The Public Historian 37(2), 89-96 (University of California Press)

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Abstract

In the past decade, Saudi Arabia has begun investing resources in cultural heritage preservation. In this interview, Maha Al-Senan, the director of the Saudi Heritage Preservation Society, discusses this shift and reflects on how heritage preservation has the power to influence identity and power in the kingdom.

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