https://geopolitics-today.com/en/tags/middle-east/Recent content in Middle East on Geopolitics-TodayHugoenWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geopolitics-today.com/en/articles/2026-06-24-saint-catherines-monastery-in-sinai-a-threatened-universal-heritage-site/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geopolitics-today.com/en/articles/2026-06-24-saint-catherines-monastery-in-sinai-a-threatened-universal-heritage-site/Since its inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2002, the monastery has been regarded as a universal symbol of dialogue between civilisations and of coexistence among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In recent years, however, the site has become the centre of a major crisis opposing two contradictory logics: the preservation of a millennia-old sacred place on the one hand, and its economic and tourist exploitation.