And I thought that there was a good chance that there was, you know, in the most significant cultural city in this country, there was a danger of some really vital stuff being lost, and I didn't hear people talking about that.
Mr Marth had been questioning six Sunnis suspected of involvement in an attack on an Iranian cultural centre in the Pakistani city of Multan.
The Director-General was also presented with the "Appeal of Tomorrow's Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform" by its President Mr. Koichiro Matsuura -- a Platform that was established to ensure the long-term protection of cultural heritage in the city of Kyoto following the earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan in March 2011.
It is an unprecedented partnership that speaks volumes about how global brands are beginning to invest in the city, and also helps pinpoint its cultural differentiation with elsewhere in the Middle East.
Since 1929, when it opened, the museum has become a fixture in the cultural life of the city, not to say the world.
In 2009, Canterbury Pride complained the city was a "cultural wilderness" and one of few in England without any gay bars.
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Islam, an architect, is the head of the Urban Study Group, a small band of architects founded in 2004 that are campaigning to save the cultural heritage of Puran Dhaka, the most historic area in the city.
Harmony Center also got the biggest chunk of the vote, 23%, in Latvia's second-largest city Daugavpils, and 48% in Rezekne, the cultural center of the linguistically distinct, mainly Catholic Eastern Latvian district of Latgale.
Cultural facilities have been an important component in the city's transformation in recent years.
Bakers would serve hot loaves of pan dulce (a sweet bread dotted with candied fruit) rumoured to be the best in the city, and famed cultural figures like tango stars idled away hours at the tables.
John Burrows, chief executive of Newport Unlimited, said: "The new campus will be an important landmark development in the regeneration of the city and an enormous stimulus to the emerging riverfront education and cultural quarter in Newport".
Elsewhere in the city, the mix of cultural and architectural heritage combines to make Buenos Aires unlike any other city on Earth.
As the cultural capital of Japan, traditional arts are actively cultivated in the city.
The Platform explored the intrinsic linkages between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, which is embedded in the living tradition of the city and which drives Kyoto's community engagement and deliberate commitment towards disaster-risk prevention in the future.
Some Muslims in Bradford say they would prefer their children to go to multi-cultural schools, but that the poor standard of schooling in the city has condemned their children to a cycle of low achievement, unemployment, poverty and crime.
The city's annual multi-cultural festival will run in Kelvingrove Park from 12:00 to 18:00 on 15 and 16 June.
It is expected that Chicago's renowned skyline, history and cultural heritage will be positive factors in its Olympics bid, while the city also boasts good transport infrastructure.
Part of the answer lies in the fact that the New York publishing establishment has a weakness for books that portray the upstart city of the West, its chief cultural rival, in the worst possible light.
"The loss of Nora Ephron is a devastating one for New York City's arts and cultural community, " Bloomberg said in a statement.
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Even if most New Yorkers find little fault with it, this classical monument to a questionable figure in our history has become embarrassing to the city's cultural establishment.
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There has been a profound loss of cultural creativity, apparent, for example, in the decay of the Islamic city and its time-honoured traditions of craftsmanship, piety and community.
The group has now restored four derelict haciendas within two hours of Merida and a hotel in the gulf coast city of Campeche with an eye toward cultural preservation.
The owners, Suzan and Yoni, form a unique Arab-Jewish partnership, but the cross-cultural business arrangement does not seem out of place in Haifa, a mixed city where Arabs and Jews mingle freely, seemingly unaware of the ethnic tensions simmering in other parts of Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Hastings and Bexhill are mounting a joint challenge for the chance to become UK City of Culture in 2017, arguing that they have admirable cultural merits.
The pretext for this legal cartel is as flimsy as can be: Supposedly it ensures that people in the remotest village have the same "access to cultural material" as city dwellers.
And with Unesco listing flamenco as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (culturally important traditions, practices, and rituals) in 2010, the city continues to stand at the vanguard of the vital and precious art.
Quebec City, the province's capital, offers an experience rich in cultural heritage.
Already experts in making guests to the city feel at home, hotel staff are becoming cultural ambassadors for the UNESCO Creative City under the instruction of the Bradford City of Film team.
Finally, Leal indicated that the Office of the City Historian and the National Cultural Heritage Council are willing to support recovery works in the historical centre of Santiago de Cuba, one of the most seriously affected areas, and to send restorers and other highly qualified personnel to help repair museum pieces damaged by the natural disaster.
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