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Richmond.com
February 8, 2018
Life-size figures in military uniforms will be part the National Museum of the United States Army, which is expected to open next year or the year after. JAHI CHIKWENDIU / THE ... She's an image of a U.S. Army military police soldier on a hot day in Ramadi during the war in Iraq in 2006. And although she isÃÂ ...
Deccan Chronicle
February 7, 2018
One of the people instrumental in getting them sent back to Lebanon was Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, an Iraq war veteran who led the investigation into looting at the national museum in Baghdad during the chaos of the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. Outrage atÃÂ ...
Brooklyn Rail
February 7, 2018
Additionally, the project Enemy Kitchen (2012 – ongoing), a food truck collaboratively run by veterans of the Iraq War and local Iraqis, has been serving Iraqi cuisine from the museum's plaza. Chicago-based artist and writer David Sprecher spoke to Rakowitz at his home in Chicago. David Sprecher (Rail):ÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
February 7, 2018
One of the people instrumental in getting them sent back to Lebanon was Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos, an Iraq war veteran who led the investigation into looting at the national museum in Baghdad during the chaos of the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
The Atlantic
February 6, 2018
In a recent example, after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January 2017 banning citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, ... Massie says she looks to two museums in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of African AmericanÃÂ ...
Smithsonian
January 30, 2018
Books of his presented theses on the growth of the world's first urban societies and the settlement of Iraq's Diyala Plains, while numerous articles bearing his byline appeared ... Adams was adamant that the National Museum of the American Indian be created by Native Americans and for Native Americans.
ArchDaily
January 26, 2018
“David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington DC, did that beautifully: not only is this a striking and ... The story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Dezeen
January 25, 2018
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has been named Design of the Year for 2017, after being described by judges as a "major turning point" in architecture. Designed by architect David Adjaye, the African American history museum in Washington DC is the overallÃÂ ...
Washingtonian.com
January 16, 2018
"Americans" opens at the National Museum of the American Indian on January 18. Photograph via Wikimedia ... The familiar long-range weapon—used by the US Navy in both of the Iraq wars and other modern conflicts—taps into the reputation of some tribes as fearsome warriors. “Naming weaponsÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 15, 2018
Native American veterans will have a memorial at the National Mall, on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian. ... "Our ancestors are the very groundwork of the United States because we died here first," Debra Kay Mooney, a Choctaw Iraq War veteran told The Post. "It's our ancestors'ÃÂ ...
artnet News
January 15, 2018
'It's a Strange Communion': Artist Michael Rakowitz on Why He Set Up an Iraqi Food Truck Outside the MCA Chicago ... since 2007), which consists of lovingly made replicas of treasures looted from the National Museum of Iraq, which Rakowitz crafted from Middle Eastern newspapers and food packaging;ÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
January 14, 2018
... National Museum in Beirut early next month, Lebanon's Culture Ministry said in a statement. They were stolen from a storehouse in Byblos in 1981 at the height of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, as Christian and Muslim militias battled each other across much of the country. In recent years, wars in Iraq andÃÂ ...
Pentagram
January 13, 2018
“Bronze Soldier/ Pause in the Conversation” Work of art featured in “The Scars Remain: Reflections and Memories of Iraq and Afghanistan” by artist U.S. ... “THE SCARS REMAIN,” by retired U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy “Mike” Goodrich at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM), a Department ofÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
January 13, 2018
The National Museum of African-American History and Culture (NMAACH) is working to preserve the stories of some families who paid the ultimate sacrifice. The NMAACH ... Perez became the first combat death from her graduating class and the first female West Point graduate to be killed in Iraq. “She wasÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 13, 2018
And what was more surprising was where his work was being displayed: the Arab American National Museum, which was focusing for the first time on a gay artist's exploration of ... Men accused of being gay have also experienced deadly violence in regions of Syria and Iraq controlled by the Islamic State.
Arab News
December 23, 2017
At this point in history, Iraq has already been invaded and it has been four years since Baghdad was captured by US forces. Saddam Hussein has already been found in his underground hideout and has been killed. The looting of banks, libraries, weapons and the National Museum has already happenedÃÂ ...
Fortune
December 21, 2017
Sesame Street's Ernie, Elmo and Bert at a ceremony on the anniversary of muppet creator Jim Henson's birthday at the National Museum of American History in ... The organizations say they will focus on children in the Syrian region (Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria), striving to improve both their immediateÃÂ ...
Tehran Times
December 20, 2017
TEHRAN – The British Museum is considering a plan to hold a joint exhibition of ancient relics at the National Museum of Iran, its director said in Tehran on Tuesday. ... The cylinder was found during a British Museum excavation at Babylon in Iraq in 1879, and has been in the British Museum since then.
FederalNewsRadio.com
December 20, 2017
In a drab, fluorescent lit, staff-only room of the National Museum of American History there is a little bit of holiday cheer where you'd least expect it. A good cheer package from World War I, a beautifully decorated card sent from a World War II service member to a Japanese internment camp and a menu fromÃÂ ...
Global Journalist
December 14, 2017
Amid reports that the Islamic State was generating millions of dollars by looting and selling antiquities from Syria and Iraq in 2015, archaeologist Mark Altaweel decided to conduct an ... Recovered antiquities are displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad in 2015 (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed).
Beloit College Round Table
December 11, 2017
The Iraqi government should be able to explain why hundreds of Torah scrolls were found in the Iraq National Museum, with their parchment chewed upon by rats. The Iraqi government should be able to explain why they have been destroying Jewish sites such as the Tomb of Ezra, replacing HebrewÃÂ ...
Dayton Daily News
December 8, 2017
Wendell Miller, a docent at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, imparts facts about the North American P-51D Mustang fighter in the World War II Gallery to members of the Honoring Our ... The museum is where 18 veterans from World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam and Iraq gathered Dec.
Al-Monitor
July 2, 2017
“The project, which will establish a comprehensive database of Iraq's cultural and heritage treasures, will make the Iraqi antiquities accessible to people all around the world,” said Abdel Amir al-Hamadani, an Iraqi archaeologist who is a candidate for management of the National Museum of Iraq.
News One
December 31, 1999
The exhibit takes visitors on a journey through time by highlighting the stories of those who died fighting in 20th-century wars as well as those who perished in the Iraq war following the September 11 terrorist attacks. A part of the exhibit delves into the story of Emily Perez; a Black and Latina woman whoÃÂ ...
The Salem News
December 31, 1999
History has often shown that art can be treasured and stolen – the looting of homes and collections of many Jewish people during the Holocaust is one stark example – or looted and destroyed, in the case of great works in Afghanistan and the pillaging of a national museum in Iraq, in more recent memory.
Leisure Group Travel
December 31, 1999
... larger installations like The invisible enemy should not exist (2007-ongoing) – a lifelong project representing stolen items from the Iraqi National Museum – and more. Enemy Kitchen (2003-ongoing) is an entrancing display of a food truck that serves Iraqi dishes from Rakowitz's and his mother's collection of local recipes.
thejournal.ie
December 31, 1999
STATE PAPERS FROM 1987 reveal the Irish government intended to keep plans to increase the quantity of export credit in the Iraqi market secret from the ... His itinerary included a dinner, hosted by Parc, at the Shelbourne Hotel, a tour of the National Museum's treasures section and a visit to the ChesterÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
October 14, 2017
In the early 1990s, Thuraya lived through the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which ... Rights Geneva, and the Kuwait National Museum, among others.
artnet News
October 12, 2017
... under a master plan by the late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. ... others are the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and the Zayed National Museum, ...
Odessa American
October 5, 2017
Cedric Yeh, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American ... like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — that connect with the attacks.
Salon
October 1, 2017
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has been ... received a key to the city soon after he became president of Iraq.
Chicago Reader
September 28, 2017
His maternal grandparents fled Iraq in 1946, no longer feeling safe there ... centers around the absence of anything "Iraqi" in the U.S. that isn't related to ... or destroyed objects from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
Hurriyet Daily News
September 18, 2017
... which was seized and destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... Their new home will be the National Museum of Damascus.
Chicagomag.com
September 18, 2017
As the son of Jewish parents—one an American, the other an Iraqi ... all 7,000 artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, ...
The National
September 15, 2017
One of those lives belonged to Donny George Youkhanna, an Iraqi archaeologist and former director of the Iraq National Museum who, despite ...
cleveland.com
September 14, 2017
The locket, and the memories, came from Iraq to Cleveland, and have ... tour organized by the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, ...
Al-Monitor
July 2, 2017
The Virtual Museum of Iraq, which has been a work in progress since 2005, aims to bring Iraqi heritage and archaeological artifacts online by ...
Forward
September 2, 2017
Rakowitz's work has often touched on the troubled history of Iraqi Jews, ... at full scale every single item looted from the Iraqi National Museum.
Artsy
August 31, 2017
... with members of specific communities, especially the Iraqi-American ... the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, which was looted after theÃÂ ...
Neos Kosmos
August 25, 2017
... to Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos who has formerly been involved in other looting cases, namely that of Iraq's National Museum.
artnet News
August 24, 2017
... near the horror and sadness I felt at the Taliban's detonation of the Buddhas of Bamiyan or the looting of the National Museum of Iraq.
Smithsonian Science News
August 24, 2017
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and .... 12, 2006, in Iraq and became the first black female (Afro-Latina) officerÃÂ ...
The National
August 22, 2017
Poster for the Third World Biennale of Graphic Art at the Iraqi Cultural Centre Gallery, ... one of the last Iraqi shows Al-Azzawi participated in before leaving Iraq. ... Poster for The Applied Arts Exhibition at The National Museum,ÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
August 12, 2017
... referring to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ... $3 million fine for illegally importing thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts.
Baptist Standard
August 7, 2017
The case of the 10,000 Iraqi cuneiform tablets has attracted hardly any ... of New York over its purchase of clay artifacts from present-day Iraq, it was ... “Should a private family create a 'national museum' with a religious bent inÃÂ ...
The Daily Herald
August 6, 2017
... and set it inside the site of the National Museum of the United States Army. ... that headed a charge from Kuwait to Baghdad, in Iraq, in 2003.
Concord Monitor
August 4, 2017
... is installed at the site of the National Museum of the United States Army in ... that headed a charge from Kuwait to Baghdad, in Iraq, in 2003.
Salt Lake Tribune
August 4, 2017
In the case of the 10,000 Iraqi cuneiform tablets, there has been hardly ... District of New York over its purchase of clay artifacts from present-day Iraq, ... “Should a private family create a 'national museum' with a religious bentÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
August 3, 2017
... are seen at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq, July 15, 2015. ... “Iraqi and US officials are in constant contact, and the smuggledÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
August 3, 2017
... to transport soldiers in 2003, the first year of the Iraq War, is the first artifact to be installed in the National Museum of the United States Army.
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