SAFE unveiled the first in a series of podcast interviews with noted authors, academics, attorneys, museum personnel, members of law enforcement and a wide range of opinion-leaders focusing on issues concerning cultural heritage preservation and the global trade in illicit antiquities.
• Dr. Donny George Youkhanna — former director of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad and former chairman of Iraq's National State Board of Antiquities.
• Roger Atwood — author of the award-winning book Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World (St. Martins, 2004).
• Patty Gerstenblith — law professor at DePaul University, president of the Lawyer's Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and former member of the US State Department's Cultural Policy Advisory Committee
And more to come…
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