The destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq / edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly ; forward by Robert Fisk.

Introduction / Peter G. Stone with Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly -- The importance of Iraq's cultural heritage 19 / Jean-Louis Huot -- The story of the Iraq Museum / Lamia al-Gailani Werr -- The acquisition of antiquities in Iraq, 19th century to 2003, legal and illegal / McGuire Gibson -- The market background to the April 2003 plunder of the Iraq National Museum / Neil Brodie -- The Metropolitan Police's art and antiques unit / Vernon Rapley -- War, cultural property and the Blue Shield / Sue Cole -- The identification and protection of cultural heritage during the Iraq conflict : a peculiarly English tale / Peter G. Stone -- Damage to Iraq's wider heritage / Usam Ghaidan -- The looting of the Iraq National Museum / Donny George -- Thieves of Baghdad / Matthew Bogdanos -- Will Mesopotamia survive the war? : the continuous destruction of Iraq's archaeological sites / Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly -- The damages sustained to the ancient city of Babel as a consequence of the military presence of Coalition forces in 2003 / Mariam Umran Moussa -- The damage sustained to the ancient city of Ur / Abulamir Hamdani -- Inside the CPA / John Russell -- The battle for Babylon / Zainab Bahrani -- Embedded archaeology : an exercise in self-reflection / Rene Teijgeler -- Change in the legal regime protecting cultural heritage in the aftermath of the war in Iraq / Patty Gerstenblith -- 'May the holy river Karun mourn you' (Gilgamesh viii, 18) : Unesco's post-conflict strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage / Philippe Delanghe -- The role of the British Museum in the protection of the Iraqi cultural heritage / John Curtis -- The European response to the destruction of the Iraqi cultural heritage (Germany) / Margarete van Ess -- The ongoing work of the French archaeological institutes in the Middle East for Iraq / Bertrand Lafont -- The contribution of the Centro Scavi di Torino to the reconstruction of Iraqi antiquities / Roberto Parapetti -- Italian carabineers and the protection of Iraqi cultural heritage / Ugo Zottin -- Polish activity on behalf of the protection of the cultural heritage of Iraq (2003-2006) / Lukasz Oledzki -- Forensic archaeology and anthropology in and for Iraq : context and approaches / Margaret Cox -- Iraqi libraries and archives in peril / Jeff Spurr -- Mohamed is absent. I am performing : contemporary Iraqi art and the destruction of heritage / Bernadette Buckley.

Includes bibliographical references.