William Carruthers is Lecturer in Heritage at Essex University. He is the author of ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ (Cornell University Press).
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When the country renews its membership in July, it will pay back dues of more than $500m – but it does so on its own terms
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