Heritage and Displacement

Isakhan, B. & Childs, E. (2026). UNESCO’s Institutional drift and normative vacuum: interpreting the failure to protect Palestinian heritage in Gaza. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 32(4): 542-560. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Childs, E. (2026). Global heritage governance and women’s everyday (in)security. Globalizations. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Meskell, L. (2026). Modelling norm cluster expansion: the case of UNESCO’s heritage mandate. European Journal of International Relations. [Link]

Childs, E. & Isakhan, B. (2025). Gender and cultural violence: feminist perspectives on Islamic State’s heritage destruction. International Affairs. 101(1): 157-175. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Meskell, L. (2024). Rebuilding Mosul: Public opinion on foreign-led heritage reconstruction. Cooperation and Conflict. 59(3): 379-404. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Meskell, L. (2024). Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 30(7): 821-839. [Link]

Meskell, L. & Isakhan, B. (2024). Heritage conflict and the council: the UNSC, UNESCO, and the view from Iraq and Syria. International Journal of Cultural Property. 31(2): 134-153. [Link]

Meskell, L. & Isakhan, B. (2024). Reconstruction across the Middle East: UNESCO and the rise of heritage INGOs. Contemporary Levant. 9(1): 33-49. [Link]

Meskell, L. & Isakhan, B. (2024). Deploying Destruction: Islamic State, international actors, and public opinion in Mosul. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 30(7): 831-847. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Akbar, A. (2022). Problematizing norms of heritage and peace: militia mobilization and violence in Iraq. Cooperation and Conflict. 57(4): 516-534.[Link]

Isakhan, B. & Shahab, S. (2022). The Islamic State’s targeting of Christians and their heritage: genocide, displacement and reconciliation. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 28(7): 820-835. [Link]

Meskell, L. and Isakhan, B. (2020). UNESCO, World Heritage and the gridlock over Yemen. Third World Quarterly. 41(10): 1776-1791. [Link]

Isakhan, B. (2020). The Islamic State attacks on Shia Holy Sites and the ‘Shrine Protection Narrative’: Threats to Sacred Space as a Mobilization Frame. Terrorism and Political Violence, 32(4): 724-748. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Shahab, S. (2020). The Islamic State’s destruction of Yezidi heritage: Responses, resilience and reconstruction after genocide. Journal of Social Archaeology. 20(1): 3-25. [Link]

Isakhan, B & Meskell, L. (2019). UNESCO’s Project to ‘Revive the Spirit of Mosul’: Iraqi and Syrian Opinion on Heritage Reconstruction after the Islamic State. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 25(11): 1189-1204. [Link]

Isakhan, B. & Zarandona, A. (2018). Layers of Religious and Political Iconoclasm under the Islamic State: Symbolic Sectarianism and Pre-Monotheistic Iconoclasm. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24(1), 1-16. [Link]