Lorenzo Kamel is Associate Professor of History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin and director of IAI’s Research Studies. He taught at several universities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University for two years, and a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

• Ettore Greco and Nicolo Russo PerezForeword Lorenzo KamelIntroduction Elijah J. MagnierChapter 1: The Steep Cost of Destabilizing Iraq and Syria Francesco BandarinChapter 2: The Reconstruction and Recovery of Syrian CulturalHeritage. The Case of the Old City of Aleppo Stefano de MartinoChapter 3: The Italian Response to the Cultural Heritage Emergencyin Iraq Omar MohammedChapter 4: Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul’sHeritage Reshaped the Future of the People Abdul Salam TahaChapter 5: The Role of Academia in Enabling the Illicit AntiquitiesMarket: The Damage to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage Lorenzo KamelChapter 6: Cultural Heritage as a Process of Accumulation: The‘Paradigm of Gilgamesh’ Contributors Abbreviations

Lorenzo Kamel is Associate Professor of History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin and director of IAI’s Research Studies. He taught at several universities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University for two years, and a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

• Ettore Greco and Nicolo Russo PerezForeword Lorenzo KamelIntroduction Elijah J. MagnierChapter 1: The Steep Cost of Destabilizing Iraq and Syria Francesco BandarinChapter 2: The Reconstruction and Recovery of Syrian CulturalHeritage. The Case of the Old City of Aleppo Stefano de MartinoChapter 3: The Italian Response to the Cultural Heritage Emergencyin Iraq Omar MohammedChapter 4: Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul’sHeritage Reshaped the Future of the People Abdul Salam TahaChapter 5: The Role of Academia in Enabling the Illicit AntiquitiesMarket: The Damage to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage Lorenzo KamelChapter 6: Cultural Heritage as a Process of Accumulation: The‘Paradigm of Gilgamesh’ Contributors Abbreviations

Lorenzo Kamel is Associate Professor of History of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Turin and director of IAI’s Research Studies. He taught at several universities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University for two years, and a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

• Ettore Greco and Nicolo Russo PerezForeword Lorenzo KamelIntroduction Elijah J. MagnierChapter 1: The Steep Cost of Destabilizing Iraq and Syria Francesco BandarinChapter 2: The Reconstruction and Recovery of Syrian CulturalHeritage. The Case of the Old City of Aleppo Stefano de MartinoChapter 3: The Italian Response to the Cultural Heritage Emergencyin Iraq Omar MohammedChapter 4: Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul’sHeritage Reshaped the Future of the People Abdul Salam TahaChapter 5: The Role of Academia in Enabling the Illicit AntiquitiesMarket: The Damage to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage Lorenzo KamelChapter 6: Cultural Heritage as a Process of Accumulation: The‘Paradigm of Gilgamesh’ Contributors Abbreviations