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Dispatch from Mosul: Reconstruction Signals New Beginnings in Iraq frieze.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frieze.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As Mosul makes a slow revival from the remnants of war, a host of challenges remain, including corrupt officials and institutional weaknesses in Iraq. ....
Penn team expands cultural heritage work in Iraq, backed by new funding Three big new projects restoration of a fortification gate, repair of an important landmark, and a survey of historic non-religious architecture recently got underway. The Ottoman-period Beit al-Tutunji the Tutunji House has a central open-air courtyard surrounded by rooms that, at the height of fighting, became a base for ISIS. For several years, the Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program (IHSP) has been working on its restoration, which is now about 60% complete. Shown here is the semi-subterranean basement during restoration, a cool space that inhabitants of the house would have used in the heat of Mosul’s summer. ....
Assessing the damage: Isis blew up a carved platform in the museum’s Assyrian Hall, leaving an enormous crater Sebastian Meyer/Smithsonian Institution When Pope Francis recently visited Mosul Iraq’s most diverse city, with historic Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Yazidi communities it was a piercing reminder of how its religious pluralism was targeted by the Islamic State (Isis). Occupying the city for three years, Isis’s fundamentalist fighters waged a battle for absolute control. By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been destroyed or looted. An international partnership was quickly launched to try and salvage what remained, coordinated by specialists from the Smithsonian Institution, the Musée du Louvre, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and the Aliph Foundation, which gave $1.3m in funding. The project has now entered its second phase: ....
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