POSTED April 12, 2016
This fall, the Basra mansion of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will debut as an art museum, reports The Observer’s Alanna Martinez. Qahtan al-Abeed, director of Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage for Basra, has been leading the project, according to National Geographic. “The Iraqi government, a UK-based charity, and oil company donations” are all helping to finance the project, writes Martinez.
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