MUSEUM UNDER FIRE,MEMORY AND POWER IN A FRACTURED MIDDLE EAST

🔊 Listen to this article In moments of geopolitical escalation, attention gravities -understandibly- to borders, oil routes, airspace closures, and diplomatic rhetoric. Yet beneath the visible theatre of war lies another quieter front: MUSEUMS. There are several hundred museums and heritage sites in the Gulf region and in the conflict zone around Iran. Saudi Arabia reports …