ANN: A project to fight against trafficking of books and manuscripts in MENA region
Project Himayah (In Arabic this means "protection", "care", "safekeeping")
ANN: "Claiming Ancient Carthage: The Quest for Antiquities in 19th Century Tunisia," Lecture by Ridha Moumni
Lecture sponsored by the Columbia University Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement and the Department of History
Conference - Erasing the Past: Da'esh and the Crisis of Antiquities Destruction (Wellesley College, 24 Sep '15)
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 9:00am
Collins Cinema, Davis Museum, Wellesley College
106 Central St., Wellesley, Massachusetts
Of Interest: Destruction of Iraqi Antiquities
The deliberate destruction and looting of antiquities in Mosul seems to have reached a crescendo with the release [Feb 26] of videos showing Islamic State militants blowing up pre-Islamic heritage sites and sledgehammering Assyrian monuments and statues:
Sam Hardy's Conflict Antiquities blog: Islamic State has toppled, sledgehammered and jackhammered (drilled out) artefacts in Mosul Museum and at Nineveh
