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Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq

Produced by Suzy Salamy of Deep Dish TV in 2005 Web links : A Candlelight Vigil for the Iraq Museum (Saving Antiquities for Everyone) Deep Dish TV Iraq Museum Database (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) Iraq Museum International (Baghdad Museum Project) Mesopotamia (British Museum) Mesopotamia (Washington State University) Open Declaration on Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iraq (Archaeological Institute of America) Resources on The Looting and Destruction of the Collections of the National Museum and Library of Iraq, April 2003 (Vassar College Libraries) BOOK: The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia, by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster (Eds.). Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2005. This video is Program #6 in Deep Dish TV's series "Shocking and Awful - A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation," 12 half hour programs on the Iraq War. The entire series is available from http://www.deepdishtv.org. ($35 individual price, $750 institutional for the 3- disc DVD set). "Erasing Memory" alone is available in DVD through TAC Marketplace for $19.95 plus shipping.

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