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NThe New York Jewish Week


Word choice matters. 
The tradition of wedding stones in southern Germany.
To stir, or not to stir, that is the question.
Nilometers in the Land of Israel.
Staring the Rabbi Pirate in the Face.
The almost 2,000 year old tree at biblical Tamar.
The Custodians of Venice.
The Star of David You Can See from Space in … Iran.
Mermaid Land.
Toledo: City of legends.
The 2,000-year-old synagogue at Gamla, the oldest yet found in Israel. (Editor's pick of Mosaic Magazine in 2018).
Time Travel.
Don’t play around with the Holocaust for your own political needs.

Times of Israel
The Jews of Ostia Antica
The House of Death is Life.
Scorched earth: when the environment becomes a weapon.
Atlit Yam, a journey into Israel’s sunken past.
The Ancient Cry of the Shofar.
The Wondrous Judean Underland.
The multiple pasts of Cretan Jewry.
The absence of names is silence.
The Light of Florence.
The synagogue and the king.
Shish Kebab and Ghoriba in Lockdown.

Medium
Precarious Life: the fate of the Hazara people in Afghanistan.

Uitsluiting, Terreur en Vervolging: Het onzekere lot van het Hazara volk in Afghanistan. 

NIW
De geschiedenis geeft een ambivalent beeld van koning Herodes de Grote: hij versterkte de positie van de Joden in het Romeinse Rijk, maar werd door zijn volk gehaat als marionet van Rome. Wie was deze megalomane hervormer?

Graven in heilige grond. (papieren editie NIW 33, 25 Siewan 5778/ 8 juni 2018).

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Commentary Foreign Policy 
The Taliban Take Aim at Buddhist Heritage. Afghanistan’s new rulers are looting the past—again, by Lynne O'Donnell

Commentary  The Media Line 
Assad Regime Courts Tourists To Palmyra,
by Maya Margit

Commentary  The Jersusalem Post
Global fight against terror-tainted black market antiquities intensifies, by Maya Margit.

Ontmoet ons team

I am available for insightful commentary on conflict archaeology, (the history of) archaeology of the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf region and North Africa, religious studies and environmental archaeology. 
I write about archaeology, religion, heritage and their intersections. I draw from my experience to provide perceptive analysis on the identification, protection, management and preservation of the material remains of human activity in the past, religious heritage, and contemporary life around the world. 
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