Comments on: Iraq in the Long View: Behnam Abu Al-Souf http://www.radioopensource.org/iraq-in-the-long-view-behnam-abu-al-souf/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Emily Corwith http://www.radioopensource.org/iraq-in-the-long-view-behnam-abu-al-souf/#comment-92432 Emily Corwith Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:24:49 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1225#comment-92432 Lovely interview, Chris! Thanks for stepping back and letting this fascinating man delve deep into reminiscing about a "world manque". I will listen again. Lovely interview, Chris! Thanks for stepping back and letting this fascinating man delve deep into reminiscing about a “world manque”. I will listen again.

]]> By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/iraq-in-the-long-view-behnam-abu-al-souf/#comment-92431 Potter Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:49:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=1225#comment-92431 Behnam abu al Souf offers some wisdom at the end about Iraq today.Through the interview I was wanting to know more about the very oldest of civilizations, 6 thousand years old, and all that history after. There was a wonderful exhibition, <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E5DF173FF93AA35756C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22Way+Way+Back+to+the+Dawn+of+the+Beginning%22&st=nyt" rel="nofollow">Art of the First Cities</a> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May of 2003 which sort of coincided with our "shock and awe" assault. Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. The MMA still has their wonderful interactive feature up: http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/First_Cities/firstcities_main.htm It's good to hear that the greatest treasures are not missing- I assume from the archeological sites as well as the museum in Baghdad. Behnam abu al Souf offers some wisdom at the end about Iraq today.Through the interview I was wanting to know more about the very oldest of civilizations, 6 thousand years old, and all that history after.

There was a wonderful exhibition, Art of the First Cities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May of 2003 which sort of coincided with our “shock and awe” assault. Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus.

The MMA still has their wonderful interactive feature up:

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/First_Cities/firstcities_main.htm

It’s good to hear that the greatest treasures are not missing- I assume from the archeological sites as well as the museum in Baghdad.

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