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Article: Texas professor works to compile list of works missing from modern art museum in Baghdad
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- June 28, 2008
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Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Nada Shabout returned to the country where she grew up. As an art history professor, one of the first stops she wanted to make was the modern art museum.
But Shabout, who was in Baghdad just months after the U.S.-led March 2003 invasion, soon found that seeing the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art would be impossible.
Not only had it been burned and looted, but the area was blocked off and dangerous.
As she traveled around the city and spoke to art experts, she realized that thousands of works were looted from the museum, possibly gone forever. She made it her mission to document what had been there.
Five years later, she's still ...