French institutions in Tripoli, including schools and cultural centers, were ordered to immediately suspend their activities.
Local business leaders had a more limited plan in mind, a 3.2-mile privately funded rail line linking two busy commercial and cultural centers.
They are important economic and cultural centers that attract talent.
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PalFest collected more than 1, 500 books -- including copies of an anthology of extracts from works by festival participants -- which were distributed to cultural centers and university libraries.
Sometimes it seems that Western cultural centers such as New York, London and Paris are better places from which to monitor the breadth of contemporary regional culture than Asia itself.
The American Association of Museum Art Directors, American Schools of Oriental Research and the Archaeological Institute of America have issued similar pleas to government leaders to protect Iraq's museums, monuments, cultural centers and archaeological sites.
Relatives of two young men who were recruited, indoctrinated and sent to engage in jihad provided frightening insights into the ways in which Muslim organizations, mosques, cultural centers and Islamic societies stealthily advance this objective.
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The Iraqi claimants to the compound are numerous and the ideas for its use are many, ranging from the somber military barracks, Hussein museums and cultural centers to the more business-minded, such as five-star hotels or an amusement park.
In the editorial to this issue, Herman van Hooff, Director of UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, underscores the importance of museums and cultural centers as vectors of cultural values, knowledge and identities, and their contribution to investment, economic benefits and job generation.
It includes almost 50 buildings -- houses, churches, commercial and industrial structures, cultural and civic centers, universities and museums, many of them competition-winning projects -- as well as his activity as a town planner and designer for industry, presented in drawings, models, photographs and "walk-through" videos.
Mr. NEWT GINGRICH (Former Speaker of the House): What I'm suggesting is when you get to fundamental centers of power or fundamental centers of cultural belief, if the court decides to rewrite the Constitution, it is then challenging the authenticity of the other two branches.
With all their cultural and intellectual amenities, urban centers are also the preferred locales for many leading scientists and engineers.
The Chinese students who gather to discuss Hugh Grant are seeking a linguistic and cultural competence far greater than that required by call centers.
Apart from libraries and maybe a few youth centers, most cities aren't in the business of offering cultural services, but parks have always been central, and golf historically has been a major part of that.
The talk centers on the corseted lives of women in modern Iran and the cross-cultural similarities can be striking: take away the headscarves and these women could be Connecticut housewives.
Street vendors accused women of defying cultural norms and attacked them this week in Lilongwe and Blantyre, two of the nation's largest cosmopolitan centers.
These commissioned pieces (10 so far) are also presented in community centers, often free of charge: "The Bricklayer" was done at the Arab-American Cultural Center and the outdoor Nowruz (Persian new year) festival last weekend.
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