Mosul faced mass heritage destruction by the Islamic State. We asked residents what they thought about rebuilding
- Written by: Benjamin Isakhan, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
After the Islamic State captured the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in mid-2014, they unleashed a wave of devastating human suffering and unprecedented heritage destruction.
The Islamic State targeted many of Mosul’s most sensitive and important cultural heritage sites.
Most notoriously, in 2015 the Islamic State released a number of propaganda...
