UNESCO has awarded the 2026 Jikji Prize to Abdul Latif Hashim and Haneen Al-Amassi, two professionals working to safeguard Gaza’s documentary heritage. The announcement on 4 September recognises their work preserving and rescuing collections during the conflict. [1]

According to UNESCO, their work has enabled more than 25,000 pages of Mamluk- and Ottoman-era manuscripts to be digitised, with support from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. They have also developed a restoration laboratory and procedures for rescuing documents under threat. [1]