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Heritage is an invitation: رثوا, inherit it.

On request, for groups and institutions

Adaptive Reuse for Economic Resilience

How to Think Like an Architect · Power of the Limits

Adaptive Reuse for Economic Resilience

Professionals

First given at ICCRARAA 2023, Hurghada.

The Sound of Heritage

How to Think Like an Architect · Power of the Limits

Adaptive Reuse for Economic Resilience

Community

Listening to the city as heritage. First held 25 September 2021.

How to Think Like an Architect · Power of the Limits

How to Think Like an Architect · Power of the Limits

Kids & teens

A creative design method for students and young architects: limits as a source of ideas, drawn from the Prevailing Value System.

Investment Opportunities in Heritage

Investment Opportunities in Heritage

Entrepreneurs & investors

Finding heritage-based investments through the golden triangle of values, needs and opportunities.

Heritage Breath(e)

Investment Opportunities in Heritage

Heritage Breath(e)

Professionals

Heritage buildings as climate-responsive designs — courtyards, mashrabiyas and other passive solutions, for better environmental design today.

Inherit It

Investment Opportunities in Heritage

Heritage Breath(e)

Young people & community

What heritage is, which values it carries, and how it shapes our daily and future lives — explored through a multi-contextual lens.

Courses

Courses

Courses

Interactive and certified

Heritage Conservation Fundamentals · Environmental Solutions in Heritage · Interior Design Fundamentals · Interior Design Derived from Heritage Values · Architectural Design · Architectural Design Derived from Heritage Values. Tell us who it is for, and we build a customised plan.

Past programmes: what Rithu has run since 2021

Sep 2021 · The Sound of Heritage — launch walk

Rithu's first walk, Takiyyat Musafir, Historic Cairo.

Jan 2022 · Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

With guest speakers; recorded on YouTube.

Jan 2022 · Rithu Scholarships

Ten scholarships for the educational programme.

Feb 2022 · Season 1 · Takiyyat Musafir

Inherit It · Heritage Breath(e) · Investment Opportunities in Heritage · Power of the Limits

Mar 2022 · Season 2 · online

Investment Opportunities · How to Think Like an Architect · Family Day

Ramadan · The Story of Rithu

Thirty reel episodes by the founder on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Rithu Network

Invest in Heritage

A Rithu programme offering a tailored business model: customised solutions, a supported way to start a venture, and a model built on each member's skills and background. Launched with a public event; first generation of members in crafts, food, design, photography and the performing arts.

Who can apply: business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, researchers who want to commercialise their work, and owners of heritage assets.

Dr. Hanaa Moosa speaks

Lectures, keynotes and juries

  • Feb–Mar 2025 · Mixed-Use Developments: Balancing Functionality and Cultural Heritage — two-day workshop, Ain Shams University, landscape architecture
  • Nov 2024 · Conserving Our Future: Passing Down Tangible and Intangible Heritage — Higher Technological Institute, 10th of Ramadan, Scientific Day
  • Oct 2024 · Bridging Disciplines: Zamalek's Cultural Future · Water in Architecture — Ain Shams University, landscape architecture
  • 2024 · Echoes from the Past: Khedivial Cairo and its Opera House — Beit Al-Me'mar, Cairo
  • Apr 2024 · Re-reading Core Values: A Detailed Analysis of Heritage — keynote (online), "Future of Heritage" conference, Benha University
  • Dec 2023 · Today is Our Future Heritage — International Academy of Engineering and Media Sciences
  • Oct 2023 · Conserving Heritage Identity in the New Era: Overcoming the Awareness Gap of the Upcoming Generations — opening keynote and workshop, ICCRARAA 2023, Hurghada
  • Feb 2023 · Heritage Value as a Tool for Generating Architectural Conceptual Designs — lecture and one-day workshop, Ain Shams University
  • May 2022 · Heritage Breathe: technologies in heritage conservation and passive design — Unitec, Auckland
  • May 2022 · Juror, master's course ARC541 — Ain Shams University
  • Dec 2021 · Legislation and Heritage — Ain Shams University, ARC472
  • May 2019 · Invited speaker, 3rd Congress on Multicultural Cemeteries — CICOP Italy, Florence and Turin (before Rithu)
  • Feb 2014 · Heritage buildings reused as schools in Heliopolis — Heliopolis Culture Palace (before Rithu)

In the media

  • Jan 2020 · Nile Culture Channel, The Open Day — guest, as a consultant on the Urban Regeneration of Historic Cairo
  • Apr 2018 · Al Khabar — interview at the 4th International Biennial for Architectural and Urban Restoration
  • Mar 2018 · Al-Ahram — ministries' buildings after the move to the New Capital
  • Aug 2014 · Al-Ahram — her PhD thesis reviewed in the debate on the National Democratic building
  • Sep 2013 · Al-Ahram Friday Annex — expert comment on heritage educational buildings
  • Jan 2011 · Cairo Radio, The Cultural Programme — interview
  • Jun 2008 · Nesf Al Donya magazine — interview
  • Nov 2007 · Al Bostan newspaper — interview

Community contribution: heritage, shared in public

Brainstorming sessions

Lectures & workshops on request

Researchers

Free, pre-scheduled sessions that help young researchers enrich and direct their research.

Lectures & workshops on request

Lectures & workshops on request

Anyone

For individuals and organisations, as a duty to the community.

Historic Cairo walks

Intangible heritage & crafts

Walks

Souk El-Selah, Aslam Square, Yakan House, the Blue Mosque and Sabil Ruqayya Dudu.

Intangible heritage & crafts

Intangible heritage & crafts

Initiatives

The Open Innovative Initiative for Intangible Cultural Heritage Rehabilitation, the Arts & Crafts Initiative and Grandparents' Tales.

Sharing activity data

Sohour Day · Taraweeh and sohour

Researchers

Results of our workshops shared with researchers whose subject they serve.

Sohour Day · Taraweeh and sohour

Sohour Day · Taraweeh and sohour

Ramadan

Community gatherings in Ramadan.

Videos & webinars

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

YouTube · 2022

Full recording.

Watch on YouTube

The Story of Rithu

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

Reels · Ramadan

Thirty episodes.

Watch on Instagram

The Sound of Heritage

Rithu's first webinar — Setting the Scene

The Sound of Heritage

Vimeo · 2021

The launch walk.

Watch on Vimeo

A workshop for your team?

Plan a workshop

© 2026 Rithu for Heritage Conservation Consultancy · Founded by Dr. Hanaa Moosa · Cairo · CR 151830 · A path of conserving heritage


Rithu by Hanaa Moosa

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