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Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Arbella Bet-Shlimon is an assistant professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, specializing in the modern history of Iraq.

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Roger Owen

Roger Owen, a former contributing editor of Middle East Report who taught at Oxford University and Harvard University for over half a century, died on December 22, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 83. A specialist in the economic, political and social history of the modern Middle

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Preservation or Plunder? The ISIS Files and a History of Heritage Removal in Iraq

The removal of the ISIS files from Iraq is only the latest episode in a long history of seizures of Iraqi archives and artifacts by Europeans and Americans. Rather than dismiss Iraqi critics as unreasonable, everyone with a stake in the study of Iraq—including all journalists, historians, and archiv

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