“The 10 episodes of this BBC Radio program try to go beyond reporting the losses to understand the complex histories of the monuments destroyed and to present them through the eyes of those who lived and worked with them, cared for them, and sometime lost their lives to defend them…”
–Rabbat, who directs the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA).
MIT architect and historian helps the BBC trace the destruction of Syrian antiquities.
The Great Mosque of Aleppo, built in 1090, possessed an unusual and significant minaret. Square and tiered, it towered over the city, with intricate Arabic inscriptions tracing different periods of its construction history.
But the minaret is now a lost part of the past — destroyed in 2013 during fighting between government forces and rebels in the ongoing conflict in Syria. A new BBC radio series, The Museum of Lost Objects, has set out to tell the stories of 10 antiquities or ancient sites, including the minaret, that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria.
More at the source: March 16, 2016 – MIT News
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