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Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Dispatches and the Missing Evidence

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Having been approached by a member of the production team for a Channel 4 Dispatches programme for my input last year, I watched the fina...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Yugoslavia anyone? A future for Syria and Iraq ...

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Hmm, so the West (Britain and France) created two huge artificial political "nations" named Syria and Iraq by simplistically dr...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

US "returns" Syrian lamp to ... Iraq

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After seizing antiquities in a raid at Deir ez-Zor in Syria, it seems the US Government handed over ALL the items to Iraq in a well-publi...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Out of the fire and into the frying pan?

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In a post bizarrely entitled " Better Burned then Smuggled? " (I suspect the word he is looking for is "than", not ...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Iraqi Jewish Archive - ethics are seldom easy

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Campaigns to renegotiate an earlier agreement reached with the Iraqi government by the United States to return a large collection of items...
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David Knell is an English-Canadian art historian based in the UK. Specialist interests include vernacular furniture and Classical lychnology. In addition to contributing to academic journals and major periodicals, he was the monthly columnist for an arts magazine and has had several books published, one of which is the standard reference work in its field. He has acted as expert consultant to Sotheby's and the Mary Rose Trust, and as referee for the Royal Archaeological Institute.
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