Summary: Iraq has a deep and enormously rich history that was heavily damaged by the 2003 war and occupation, the insurgency that followed and by the brutal predations of ISIS; a new minister of culture is working to try and set things right but he faces daunting challenges.
Summary: an international investigation into an art trafficking ring has entangled several leading museums including the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Summary: an international investigation into an art trafficking ring has entangled several leading museums including the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Summary: the UAE continues to insist it is cleaning up its act when it comes to money-laundering, gold and antiquities smuggling but lucrative criminal networks continue to flourish while key players remain unpunished.
Summary: the UAE continues to insist it is cleaning up its act when it comes to money-laundering, gold and antiquities smuggling but lucrative criminal networks continue to flourish while key players remain unpunished.
Summary: Egyptology is the gift that keeps on giving for Sisi’s regime both politically and economically.
Summary: While the world is focussed on the Covid-19 pandemic ISIS is quietly reassembling infrastructure, financial and otherwise, that will enable it to rebuild its global terror campaign.
Summary: hard times for Egyptian antiquities, which have to earn their keep. A new cultural heritage deal with the Saudis – a challenge to Qatar.
Summary: IS turns from local setbacks to world spectaculars. World and regional powers finding a common voice.
With elections looming, the European Council on Foreign Relations Working Group on Egypt addresses a letter to European leaders urging them not to accept the “new normal” with Egypt
