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The Destruction of Cultural Memory (2001 Presidential Address)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

R. Stephen Humphreys
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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , Summer 2002 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2002

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page 5 note 1 I owe this reference to Professor Irene Bierman, University of California, Los Angeles.

page 6 note 1 See a lengthy discussion of these events by Andras Riedlmayer (bibliographer for the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at Harvard University), delivered as a public lecture in 1994. “Bosnia’s Multi-Cultural heritage and its destruction” [www.kakarigi.net/manu/ceip2.htm].

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page 6 note 3 Riedlmayer lecture, p. 10.

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page 8 note 1 “Director-General Condemns Taliban’s Crime against Culture,” UNESCO Press [www.unesco.org/opi/eng/unescopress/2001/01-38e.shtml].

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