What is the meaning of the World Heritage Commitee for Bahrain culture and tourism?
The whole world will focus on Bahrain during the time of this conference. For ten days Bahrain will be the focus of the media and important news will come from Bahrain. It is a great opportunity for Bahrain to promote what we have. It has been almost fourteen years since anyone in the Arab world has hosted the World Heritage Committee. In 2010 it will be hosted in Brazil and one thing we will share with Brazil will be that the regional center for UNESCO will be in Bahrain and the regional center for Latin America will be in Brazil. There are only a few places in the world like this and this is very important center and we are happy and proud to manage to have convinced the committee to accept this project. I think in this area in the field of archaeology it is very real. No one encourages students to study archaeology and heritage but by establishing this center in Bahrain we can pass on the message to train the people and get students to join us to continue not only for Bahrain. This
