Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
January 11, 2023

Not surprisingly, and despite all of his protestations earlier, Ali Aboutaam has been convicted.

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In a hearing that took less than an hour at the Geneva police court, Ali Aboutaam, the owner of the Geneva gallery Phoenix Ancient Art SA ha...
June 10, 2018

Syria has ratified the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects.

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The smashed face of a statue found on the floor of the Palmyra museum in the Syrian city of Tadmur, Homs Governate,  March 31, 2016. Image...
May 25, 2018

Countering Antiquities Trafficking (CAT) in the Mashreq

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From April 16 – 20, 2018 I had the pleasure to be one of a specialised group of trainers for  Countering Antiquities Trafficking in the Ma...
January 13, 2018

INTERPOL's Most Wanted stolen works of art lists

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Image Credit INTERPOL - Works of Art Unit Every June and December, INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization publishes...
January 10, 2018

2018 Scholarship: ARCA has 4 conflict country scholarships for its 11 course program in Italy

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ARCA has four conflict country scholarships for 2018.  These scholarships cover tuition for the 2018 postgraduate art crime and cultural...
September 27, 2017

Ar-Raqqah Museum - September 2017 Status Update

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Image Credit: DGAM, Syria - November 25, 2014 The last time ARCA wrote on the status of the Ar-Raqqah Museum was in November 25,  2014,...
May 19, 2017

Look into my eyes, but also into my collection history.

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Collecting ancient art can be an extension of a personal passion, a status symbol or a piece of cultural currency but it also serves as a d...
March 19, 2017

Lecture: Criminals without Borders - The many profiles of the (il)licit antiquities trade.

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For those interested interested in the realm of illicit trafficking who will be in Rome, Italy April 21, 2017 Lynda Albertson, ARCA&#...
March 18, 2017

Exhibition - The Past Sold, April 3 - May 13, 2017

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Beginning April 3, 2017 and running through May 13, 2017,  the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society,  located on the campus of the...
December 22, 2016

A house dismantled - Beit Ghazaleh, the house of the Ġazaleh, غزالة‎‎

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Beit Ghazaleh, the house of the Ġazaleh, غزالة‎‎. was named after the Ghazaleh family and is one the largest palaces in Aleppo from the Ott...