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Libya's National Museum: Inside the daring plan to save its past

Long before Libya's National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft

Amr Fathallah
12 January, 2026
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Libya
MENA
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Libya: Red Castle museum opens for first time since Gaddafi fall

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 December, 2025
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Grand Egyptian Museum
MENA
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Egyptians say Grand Museum ticket system puts foreigners first

The New Arab Staff
26 November, 2025
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Palestinian culture
History
Culture
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Rafah Museum's ruins spark fight to preserve Palestinian culture

The New Arab Staff

Bothaina Hamdan

19 November, 2025
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Egypt
MENA
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Egypt opens colossal new antiquities museum after two-decade wait 

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 November, 2025
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Pharaohs
MENA
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March of the mummies: Egypt readies for pharaohs' parade

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 April, 2021
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Syria
MENA
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Bankrupt Syria builds museum for Bashar Al-Assad's deceased brother

The New Arab Staff
19 November, 2020
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Turkey
MENA
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Turkey's latest mosque conversion provokes outrage over heritage 'destruction'

The New Arab Staff
28 October, 2020
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Yemen
MENA
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Heavy rains trigger collapse at Yemen's newly restored museum

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 September, 2020
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Turkey
MENA
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First prayers in 86 years held at Hagia Sophia

The New Arab Staff
24 July, 2020
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UAE
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Free film screenings and gallery tours for your quarantine

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

06 April, 2020
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Tunisia
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Cause for optimism as Tunisia plans first Jewish museum

Aidan Chivers
13 March, 2020
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MENA
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Mo Salah to be immortalised at Madame Tussauds

The New Arab
24 January, 2020
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Taliban
MENA
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Afghan museums to restore artefacts destroyed by Taliban

The New Arab
20 August, 2019
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museum
MENA
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Fish tanks: Jordan sinks military hardware for underwater museum

The New Arab & agencies
24 July, 2019
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museum
MENA
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Egypt investigates 'assault' on mummy in Cairo museum

The New Arab
23 July, 2019
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Tamim
MENA
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Qatar 'stronger' despite blockade, says emir during museum opening

The New Arab
28 March, 2019
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Tunisia
MENA
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Deadly 2015 Tunis museum attack trial reopens

The New Arab & agencies
26 January, 2019
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war
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Syria reopens Damascus antiquities museum

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab & agencies

28 October, 2018
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MENA
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Syria reopens Damascus antiquities museum

The New Arab & agencies
28 October, 2018
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Benghazi seeks funding to convert war-ravaged palace into museum

The New Arab Staff

Robert Cusack

19 October, 2017