October 10, 2020
…where you are going in 2025? Cattedrale Metropolitana di San Giovanni Battista, Torino (Turin) Italy. Wikimedia Commons. [Laughs] Well if Pope Francis reads my book, maybe they won’t show it….
August 27, 2018
…for social and political control. Art depicting superiority of modernization versus religion, http://www.zonglanxinwen.com/img/fabbbc6bbacb.html Bans on common daily behaviors are even more disruptive to the social fabric. People are now afraid…
July 28, 2022
…9, 2018, available at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-07-09/pdf/2018-14637.pdf. [6] Id. [7] See: 18 Jewish Organizations Protest MENA Nationalization of Heritage to State Department, Letter to Pompeo on Cultural Property Agreements with Syria, Iraq,…
September 30, 2017
…writing by October 15, 2017. Use http://www.regulations.gov, enter the docket [DOS-2017-0036] and follow the prompts to submit comments. The first Cambodian ban took effect on December 2, 1999, when the…
February 27, 2020
…Testimony to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee on the Proposed MOU Between the USA and Jordan Mataveri Airport, Easter Island, By Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org, via Wikimedia Commons. Chile See: Chile’s…
March 31, 2017
…to encourage tribal members to be part of its community education programming, helping outsiders to understand the importance of preserving ceremonial items within the tribal community. The meetings over the…
October 2, 2021
…Taliban Edict Threatens Central Asian Cultural Heritage, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 1, 2001, https://www.rferl.org/a/1095862.html [8] 19 U.S.C. § 2602(a)(1) [9] 19 U.S.C. § 2602(a)(1)(A-C) [10] 19 U.S.C. 2609(b)(1) [11]…
October 2, 2021
…to pass this scrutiny. The museum experts did not take bribes, nor did they seize objects (until the academic staff were replaced with communists in the 1980s). Many minor materials,…
October 15, 2024
…now more relevant than ever. We will continue to advocate for direct access to our cultural heritage. And we will maintain the museum as a free space for social communication.”…
March 30, 2024
…and appraisal of looted items, assigning them market-based commercial value. He noted that international dealers typically do not have direct contacts with the local looting communities. Historically, he said, until…