Forum on Terrorist Financing to Address Illicit Sales of Antiquities In U.S. and Internationally Thursday, September 24, 2015 8:30 - 11:30 AM Asia Society, 725 [...]
Culture in Conflict: Where Can ISIS Get $1 Million? Antiquities Coalition Infographic March 2015
2015 Cairo Conference: Cultural Property Under Threat Press Release - Antiquities Coalition 26 May 2015
Introducing the Antiquities Coalition’s New Video Series, “Culture Under Threat: Terrorism and Profiteering” Antiquities Coalition Blog 23 June 2015
June 23, 2015 The world will not look away. Ten nations from across the Middle East and North Africa recently pledged a coordinated response to stem terrorist [...]
Andrew Moore on preserving ancient artifacts from the hands of ISIL CCTV 13 April 2015
Digital Monuments Men wage online war against Islamic State looting Ben Farmer The Telegraph 6 June 2015
UN unable to stop IS relic-smuggling from Iraq and Syria James Reinl Middle East Eye 4 June 2015
Heritage in Crisis discussed on The Jim Bohannon Show The Jim Bohannon Show 22 May 2015
Heritage in Crisis discussed on The Jim Bohannon Show The Jim Bohannon Show 22 May 2015 Antiquities segment starts at 40:25 On [...]
Save statues, Saves lives Matthew Bogdanos, Tess Davis, Atheel Al Nujaifi Foreign Policy 2 June 2015
Islamic State threatens ancient Syrian site with destruction Gregg Zoroya, Rasha Faek and Riham Kusa USA TODAY 21 May 2015
Criminal Justice Matters Stealing the Past: Terrorists and the Black Market for Antiquities CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice 4 March 2015
Egypt Organizes an International Conference to Combat the Looting of Culture Heritage in the Arab World Reuters Arabic 5 February 2015
(Arabic) Antiquities Coalition Chair, Deborah M. Lehr interviewed by Radio Sawa Radio Sawa 30 March 2015
Culture Under Threat: Fighting Terrorist Financing in the Middle East Deborah Lehr and Wendy Chamberlin Huffington Post 12 May 2015
Cairo Declaration to protect Middle East cultural heritage Nevine El-Aref Ahram Online 18 May 2015
CAIRO, May 14, 2015 – Ten nations from across the Middle East agreed today to take cooperative and ongoing steps to stop the looting and [...]
2015 Cairo Conference Cultural Property Under Threat: The Cultural, Economic and Security Impact of Antiquities Theft in the Middle East Day 1 • 13 May [...]
16 April 2015 - Weighing in on the vital importance of the world"s cultural artifacts and the illegal trade that endangers them, experts at an [...]
April 13, 2015 CCTV America Andrew Moore was interviewed this week on the activities of ISIL by CCTV America (Chinese-based international TV station). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ImILNgcVDs.
IS looting provokes call for global response Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington 17 April 2015
More Than Collateral Damage: The Systematic Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Yemen’s Civil War Antiquities Coalition Blog 15 April 2015
The Race to Protect Antiquities in Syria Sarah Lynch USA Today 18 March 2015
March 30, 2015 Radio Sawa Antiquities Coalition Chair, Deborah M. Lehr interviewed by corespondent Amir Bibawy on Radio Sawa. This interview is in Arabic, and focuses [...]
The Tomb Raiders of Mesopotamia: Fighting ISIL, terrorism financing and saving our cultural heritage Mark V. Vlasic Huffington Post 26 March 2015
The Fight Against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Objects The 1970 UNESCO Convention: Past and Future 15 and 16 March 2011 Paris, UNESCO Headquarters Information [...]
March 15, 2015 NY Times By Tom Mashberg http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/assyrian-artifacts-to-be-returned-to-iraq/ American officials on Monday are expected to repatriate about 65 objects to the Iraqi government, among [...]
https://youtu.be/NbHuiFWDQws The United States government has a wide range of legal tools to stem the flood of looted antiquities entering the American market. Together [...]
ISIS Assault On Civilization Targets Relics Once Saved From Looters Cristina Corbin Fox News 11 March 2015
Antiquities Coalition Calls on U.S. and All Nations to Use All Policy and Legal Tools to Halt the Destruction, Trafficking, and Sale of Illicit Antiquities [...]
March 4, 2015 As part of its "Criminal Justice Matters" series with Stephen Handelman, CUNY TV recently featured Antiquities Coalition Co-Founder Peter Herdrich and John [...]
The Antiquities Coalition commends the Egypt government’s leadership in the global fight against cultural racketeering – the systematic looting and trafficking of antiquities by criminal [...]
