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Anders Rydell, 2024 Photo: Rickard L. Eriksson

The War on Cultural Heritage

Lecture with Anders Rydell

4.5 2024

Malmö

In connection with our ongoing exhibition “Unhealed”, we present the author Anders Rydell, who in several books has depicted the destruction and plundering of cultural heritage. In his lecture, he touches on the attack on Palmyra (2015), but also draws parallels to the destruction of the Nazis during World War II and to the war in Ukraine.

Date: 4 May

Time: at 15.00 – 15.45

Location: Loading Dock

Language: Swedish

Tickets: The lecture is included in the admission fee. Always free admission for those 18 and under.

In 2015, the Islamic State attacked the world heritage site of Palmyra in Syria, blowing up some of the city’s main monuments. But why did the terrorist group attack the cultural heritage? The author Anders Rydell has depicted the destruction and looting of cultural heritage in several books. In his latest book Destroy the false gods (Albert Bonnier’s publishing house 2023) he writes together with Jesper Huor about the attack of modern jihadism on the cultural heritage of the Middle East, from the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan to Palmyra.

About Anders Rydell

Anders Rydell is a writer and editor-in-chief of the journal Författaren. His books The Looters, The Book Thieves and Destroy the False Gods have been translated into over 20 languages. For his work, he has been nominated and received a number of Swedish and international awards, most recently the Hislibris Award for the best historical book in Spain.

“One of the most important books of the decade,” wrote Expressen. “An impressively rich and vivid book,” wrote Dagens Nyheter. Destroy the false gods has, among other things, been awarded by the Swedish Academy and nominated for the Golden Spade 2023.

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The War on Cultural Heritage