Daños al patrimonio de Siria – 26 Abril 2015

• New footage and photos show shattered mosaics y walls at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Bosra shared in Travel Journal by Lizzie Porter (Abril 14 2015). These details can be found aquí.
• Interview with the director of the archaeology department in Bosra was shared by Protect Syrian Archaeology (Abril 22 2015) aquí.

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The DGAM has released its damages assessment for the period of January 1 2015 to March 31 2015. The assessment can be seen aquí:

The DGAM reported on April 5 2015 that their personnel have managed to return to work on the citadel in Bosra and thanked the local community for their help in protecting the archaeological sites in the area. Ver aquí for more details.

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• UNESCO held a meeting with group of heritage experts to help safeguard heritage in Syria and Iraq, discussing increased information-sharing and cooperation together to enforce the February 12 UN security council resolution. Se pueden encontrar detalles aquí.
• The head of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has called on the younger generation to protect world heritage, que se puede encontrar aquí.
• On April 16 2015, an UN anti-crime meeting in Doha discussed ways to stop the trade in stolen goods. For details, ver aquí.

ASOR has released its 35th and 36th weekly reports from the Syrian Heritage Initiative, giving detailed analysis of the state of Syria’s heritage sites, que se puede encontrar aquí y aquí respectivamente.

On April 14 2015, the Royal Ontario Museum convened a panel of experts to discuss ‘Cultural Genocide in Iraq and Syria'. A discussion of the event can be found in the Globe and Mail from April 17 2015, aquí.

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• The National Post on April 20 asks whether museum curators should buy artefacts implicated in the funding of terrorism, in an article found aquí.
• On April 17 2015, the BBC discusses the call for an international response to IS’ looting aquí.
• Christopher Jones on Hyperallergic (Abril 17, 2015) assesses the issues around any prospective international intervention against ISIS for the purpose of safeguarding culture. See the piece aquí.
• CBC (Abril 14 2015) discusses the efforts of curators to save heritage from destruction, aquí.
• BBC Arabic (Abril 9 2015)has published an article (Árabe) by Andrea Watts on artifacts trafficking by the Islamic State. BBC Arabic by Andrea Watts, que se puede encontrar aquí.
• Julie Lowrie Henderson for PRI (Abril 8 2015) provides discussion about whether it is right to return artefacts to their countries of origin in times of war, aquí.
• Conflict Antiquities is reporting that ‘Civilians may have been kidnapped and exchanged for arrested paramilitary antiquities looters in Syria' (Abril 7 2015).

• The New York Times opinion pages offers a short piece on April 5 2015 entitled “A War Zone’s Ancient Past at Stake".
• The New York Times asks on April 3 2015 'Will the world do nothing to stop extremist groups from destroying some of civilization’s most treasured monuments?'
• CounterPunch on April 2 2015 asks whether countries should stop repatriations of antiquities to war-torn regions, aquí.