Pelekikena o ka Bahrain Authority no ka moʻomeheu a me nā Antiquities a me ka Luna o ka Papa Hoʻokele Ke kikowaena kikowaena Arab no ka Hoʻoilina Honua (ARC-WH), HE Shaikha Mai binti Mohammed Al Khalifa, ua hana i nā hana ma ka laulā nui. ʻO ka pili o kona ʻike ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa he mea nui ia e nānā e pili ana i kāna moho no ka UN World Tourism Organization hou (UNWTO) kulana Kakauolelo Nui.
He alakaʻi ʻo HE Shaikha Mai ma ke kahua o moʻomeheu, mea hānai, a me ka mākaʻikaʻi kuleana. I kona ʻāina ponoʻī, hana nui ʻo ia me ka luhi ʻole e hoʻomohala i kahi hanana moʻomeheu ikaika i ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka mālama moʻomeheu a ʻike nui ʻia ʻo ia he paionia i ka moʻomeheu Arab. Ma waho o kāna mau kūlana i ʻōlelo ʻia aʻe, lawelawe pū ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he hoʻokumu a he lunahoomalu o ka Papa Kahu o ka Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Center no ka moʻomeheu a me ka noiʻi.
Aia kekahi papahana e pili kokoke ana a aloha nui ʻia i kona puʻuwai e pili ana i ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana o kahi o ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Muharraq ma Bahrain, ke kikowaena mua o ke kālepa momi honua a me ka pōhaku hoʻokele waiwai o ka lāhui Bahraini a hiki i nā 1940s. Ua alakaʻi kēia papahana Muharraq hoʻokiwikā kūlanakauhale i ka palapala o Muharraq i ka pae honua.
Muharraq: Pūnaewele Hoʻoilina o UNESCO
Ke hoʻomohala nei i kahi meaola mai kahi hana mua i nā makahiki 2000, ua lilo kēia papahana i hiʻohiʻona e laʻa me ke kūlanakauhale mālama a me ka hoʻolālā e pili ana i nā moena ʻōpelu i pale ʻia ma kahakai o ka mokupuni ʻo Muharraq, kahi hale paʻa mōʻaukala, nā hale mōʻaukala, kahi laulā o nā hana o kēia au e waiwai ai. wahi lehulehu. Ua hana ʻo ia i kahi pūnaewele o nā wahi ākea kaiāulu a hoʻolauna i nā hana kuhikuhipuʻuone maʻalahi e hiki ai i ke kaiāulu ke lawelawe i kona kaiāulu kūloko a e ulu pono ma ke ʻano he hub moʻomeheu. Hoʻohui ka papahana i ka hoʻihoʻi hou, ka hoʻomaikaʻi hou ʻana o ke kūlanakauhale, a me ka hoʻolālā kuhikuhonua o kēia au a pili pū me nā pilina nui a me nā ʻōnaehana kūpono o ke aupuni kūlanakauhale a me ka hoʻokele.
Mōʻaukala o ka papahana
ʻO kēia papahana kupaianaha i kupu mai kahi hana mua a HE Sheikha Mai Al Khalifa e hoʻihoʻi hou i kahi hui moʻomeheu (salon) i hoʻokumu ʻia e kona kupuna kāne (Sheikh Ebrahim Al Khalifa) i kona home ma al-Muharraq, ke kapikala nui o Bahrain. ʻOiai ua aneane pau ka hale maoli i ka nalowale, ʻo ka manaʻo e hoʻāla hou i ka nohona moʻomeheu o kahi wahi i emi nui mai ka make ʻana o ka ʻoihana momi i nā 1940s. Mai ka hoʻokumu ʻia ʻana o ka hui hou (ʻo ka Sheikh Ebrahim Al Khalifa Center no ka moʻomeheu a me ka noiʻi) i ka makahiki 2002, ua alakaʻi ʻo Sheikha Mai i kahi papahana e ulu mau nei o ka hoʻomeheu moʻomeheu, me ke kākoʻo ʻana i nā kākoʻo mai nā hui like ʻole me nā panakō a me nā ʻoihana kūloko, e like me a me ka hoʻokumu ʻana i ka pilikino a me ka lehulehu me nā mamo a nā ʻohana momi ma mua i loaʻa ka waiwai iā lākou ma ia wahi, a ua weliweli ka hapa nui o lākou.
ʻO nā hana i alakaʻi ʻia e Sheikha Mai i hoʻokumu ʻia ma ka manaʻoʻiʻo i ka hoʻolauna hou ʻana o ka nohona moʻomeheu i wahi i mālama ʻole ʻia, hui pū ʻia me kahi papahana hoʻohui o ka hoʻihoʻi a me ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana i hiki ke hoʻololi i kāna hāʻule. Ma muli o kāna kūleʻa (a me ke kūpaʻa) ua koho ʻia ʻo Sheikha Mai i Kuhina no ka moʻomeheu ma 2010.
Ua komo kēia hoʻolālā he 15 mau makahiki i kahi nui o nā wahi moʻomeheu hou e like me ka Archaeologies of Green Pavilion (2015), ka Dar Al Jinaa Center for Traditional Music (2017), ka House of Architectural Heritage (2018), a me ka Pearling Ke kikowaena hele malihini kipa a me kahi ʻike (2018). Hoʻohana ke ola mai ka papahana e hoʻopuni i ka lehulehu a me ka hoʻohana kalepa ʻana a me nā hana moʻomeheu a me ka mākaʻikaʻi ma ke ʻano o ke ala ponoʻī me nā kikowaena kipa.
"Pono mākou e hoʻomau i ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka mākaʻikaʻi hoʻomau e hoʻokele i ka holomua o ka moʻomeheu a me ka holomua i ka holomua o ka hoʻokele waiwai," i ʻōlelo ʻo HE Shaikha Mai.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- Since the inauguration of the new majlis (the Sheikh Ebrahim Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research) in 2002, Sheikha Mai has led an ever-expanding program of cultural revitalization, leveraging support from a wide range of institutions including banks and local businesses, as well as creating private–public partnerships with descendants of the former pearling families who still own property in the area, much of which was terribly dilapidated.
- There is one project in particular that is near and dear to her heart that involves the rehabilitation of the area of the city Muharraq in Bahrain, formerly the center of the global pearling trade and the economic cornerstone of the Bahraini nation until the 1940s.
- In her own country, she has worked tirelessly to develop a robust cultural infrastructure in support of cultural conservation and is widely recognized as a pioneering figure in the Arab cultural scene.
