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Causes: Arts & Culture, Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis
Programs: Acor scheppromotes research and publication across disciplines with a special emphasis on archaeology in the middle east. Acor's main activities include archaeological excavation, conservation and restoration projects, a fellowship program for scholars, hosting public lectures, academic programs, and engaging local communities in cultural resource management through the implementation of usaid's schep program.
mena summitsto counter the use of heritage as a weapon of war, the antiquities coalition brought together the arab league with 17 of its member governments at the second annual #cultureunderthreat regional conference, held with our partners jordan and the middle east institute in amman on september 8. This ministerial-level summit also launched the middle east and north african (mena) task force against cultural racketeering, the first regional body to coordinate efforts against the blood antiquities trade.
mantisa project based at the oriental institute at the university of chicago. It is an interdisciplinary research team working at the interface of economics and archaeology. Their work combines satellite images, archaeological records, and market data to impute information about trafficked artifacts from the middle east.