Word: unesco
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...Today, Stone Town is the historic center of the present capital, Zanzibar City, and is a UNESCO World Heritage area. The showpiece is the waterfront, a line of whitewashed palaces and forts beside clear, green waters. Here the British Old Dispensary sits next to Portuguese cannons, a fort built by Omani Arabs, and the Victorian clock tower of the Beit al-Ajaib - the first building in Africa with running water, electricity and a lift...
...While locals are up in arms about the project, it has also resonated overseas, in part because the historic center of St. Petersburg - once home to Empress Catherine the Great, poet Alexander Pushkin and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky - has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the cultural arm of the U.N., since 1990. If the tower is built, the body has said it may revoke the city's status, as its "outstanding universal value" would be under threat. (See pictures of the natural sites nominated for the World Heritage List...
Unrest over UNESCO...
...Those statements, the writers argued, represent an "anthology of hate and error" and a "frenzy of conspiracy theories" that should disqualify Hosni from the UNESCO job considered "one of the most important posts of cultural responsibility on the planet". (Read: "U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines...
...result of such comments, the number of countries which plan to support Hosni's UNESCO bid have thinned, and eight other rivals have stepped...