Heritage as cultural capital in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- The intricate life of cultural heritage: colonial and postcolonial processes of patrimonialisation in Jordan / Irene Maffi -- The 'Belle Epoque' in Egypt: registers, rhetorics and mechanisms of heritage invention / Mercedes Volait -- Challenging museum spaces: dancing with ethnic and cultural diversity in Lebanon / Lina Tahan -- Families and urban activists as emergent local actors in urban rehabilitation in the Mashreq: re-defining heritage/re-writing the city / Rami Daher -- 'Al-Madina al-Qadima' of Damascus: preservation of the cultural heritage, representations of the past, and the production of a valuable space / Domenico Copertino -- The domestic heritage: public or private heritage? The case of Aleppo / Jean-Claude David -- Is rural heritage relevant in an urbanising Mashreq? Exploring the discourse of landscape heritage in Lebanon / Jala Makhzoumi -- Moroccan-Jewish heritage re-visited / Sophie Wagenhofer -- 'Hidden treasures'? Museum collections of modern art from the Arab world (1891-2010) / Silvia Naef -- History and heritage studies: passing interest or epistemological turn? Western historical agenda or anthropological perspective? / Dominique Poulot.
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