Cecilia Palombo
Cecilia Palombo is an assistant professor of Early Islamic History at the University of Chicago’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies. She studies the social history of the early Islamic Middle East and its various documentary cultures, multilingual traditions and endangered cultural heritages.
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Organized Looting Is Dispersing Islamic Heritage
Heritage from across the Middle East and the Islamic world is being plundered and resold in a market that is booming thanks to armed conflict, lack of enforcement and the ease of online selling. And despite the temptation for those wishing to preserve them, purchasing antiquities only fuels the problem.