{"id":203219,"date":"2025-07-25T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-popular-tunisian-islands-cultural-heritage-at-risk-due-to-tourism-neglect-and-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:57:53","slug":"tunisia-popular-tunisian-islands-cultural-heritage-at-risk-due-to-tourism-neglect-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-popular-tunisian-islands-cultural-heritage-at-risk-due-to-tourism-neglect-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Popular Tunisian Island&#8217;s Cultural Heritage At Risk Due to Tourism, Neglect and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the south-east coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich <a href=\"https:\/\/jusour.place\/places\/the-island-of-djerba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cultural and religious history<\/a>, it has been a crossroad of many civilisations, including the Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, and is home to many unique architectural sites. These include the Sedouikech underground mosque, St Joseph&#8217;s Church and the El Ghriba Synagogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">But, for many years, Djerba&#8217;s cultural heritage has <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/djerba-classe-patrimoine-mondial-un-succes-en-forme-de-defi-214282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been in danger<\/a>. This is due to a combination of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled in the southern Mediterranean, off the south-east coast of Tunisia, lies the island of Djerba. With a rich cultural and religious history, it has been a crossroad of many civilisations, including the Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, and is home to many unique architectural sites. These include the Sedouikech underground mosque, St Joseph&#8217;s Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,7796,6239,9671,6605,12102,11805,5972,257,11271,9590,254,1634,4703,653,6932],"class_list":["post-203219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-cultural","tag-due","tag-heritage","tag-islands","tag-neglect","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}