Collapse and Rebirth of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Syria and Iraq

ISBN-13: 9783034341271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Lorenzo Kamel

Opis

This book aims to assess the issue of cultural heritage and illicit trafficking within the frame of a destabilized region and provide a historical and geopolitical understanding of what the Middle East is currently experiencing

Spis treści

Ettore Greco and Nicolo Russo Perez

Foreword

Lorenzo Kamel

Introduction

Elijah J. Magnier

Chapter 1: The Steep Cost of Destabilizing Iraq and Syria

Francesco Bandarin

Chapter 2: The Reconstruction and Recovery of Syrian Cultural

Heritage. The Case of the Old City of Aleppo

Stefano de Martino

Chapter 3: The Italian Response to the Cultural Heritage Emergency

in Iraq

Omar Mohammed

Chapter 4: Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul's

Heritage Reshaped the Future of the People

Abdul Salam Taha

Chapter 5: The Role of Academia in Enabling the Illicit Antiquities

Market: The Damage to Iraq's Cultural Heritage Lorenzo Kamel

Chapter 6: Cultural Heritage as a Process of Accumulation: The

'Paradigm of Gilgamesh'

Contributors

Abbreviations

O autorze

Lorenzo Kamel is Associate Professor of History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin and director of IAI's Research Studies. He taught at several universities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University for two years, and a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.