KABUL CURATOR INTERVIEW
June 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWEIT would be inappropriate to liken such an obviously gentle man as Omara Khan Massoudi, director of the Kabul National Museum in Afghanistan, to Indiana Jones. Yet while he is certainly no swashbuckling Hollywood figure, there is no doubt that his experiences have far exceeded the traditional remit of the museum curator's job description. For more than 20 years he has fought doggedly, often at great personal risk, to safeguard the treasures of his native country.Dr Massoudi looks a healthy, wiry man in his late 60s, with a tanned face and a shock of ...
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