The enduring power of Mosul's rich and diverse past
- Written by Stephennie Mulder, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
A 1932 photograph showing the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul.Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. The Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, built nearly a millennium ago and one of Iraq’s most revered religious sites, was destroyed when the Islamic State detonated explosives inside it in June of this year....
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