Yesterday I visited the Niniveh exhibition at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. It was an amazing collection of reliefs, statues, cuneiform tablets and other…
Absence and Erasure
While researching for this week’s post, one phrase kept popping up in every online debate or discussion around any controversial heritage issue; erasing history. In…
Why Cultural Organizations Don’t Grow, and Why it’s a Good Thing.
Last week, I was at a talk by Dr. May Al-Ibrashy, the force behind Al-Athar Lina, an amazing initiative which sets out to conserve the…