Henna to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage

The UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will evaluate an software from 16 Arab international locations, together with Morocco, titled “Henna: Rituals, Aesthetics, and Social Practices,” throughout its nineteenth bizarre session from December 2 to 7 in Asunción, Paraguay, based on the session’s agenda.

The nomination follows a proposal made through the Tan-Tan Moussem in Morocco in June 2019, the place a number of civil society organizations expressed their want to have henna added to the Representative List of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The proposal was extensively supported by individuals from numerous teams, emphasizing henna’s cultural significance throughout totally different genders, ages, and ethnicities.

In whole, the committee will consider 63 nominations from 90 international locations, with 58 of those aiming for inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This listing, which presently options 611 parts from 140 international locations, celebrates the variety of cultural practices and data handed down via communities.

In a associated occasion, the Moroccan caftan dazzled at UNESCO through the first Arab Week, celebrated on the group’s headquarters in Paris, the place an unprecedented vogue present showcased the great thing about this conventional garment.