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Ten years on from the genocide, Yazidi culture is still absent from Western museums

Institutions have a moral duty to better represent the persecuted Kurdish religious minority

John-Paul Stonard
25 September 2024
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One of the only items related to Yazidi culture in the British Museum's collection: a photograph of a Yazidi man standing in front of the shrine of Shaikh ‘Adi ibn Mosāfer © The Trustees of the British Museum
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31 August 2014

Iconoclasm reborn with Islamic State fanaticism: The destruction of cultural heritage as propaganda

The extent of the destruction is uncertain in the fog of war

Robert Bevan