Princess, painter, sometime chef: Lizzy Vartanian Collier visits London’s Tate Modern to take a look at a long-overdue retrospective of works by Turkey’s Fahrelnissa Zeid
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How Iraqi Are You?
Natasha Morris looks at some recent works by Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman and their connection to a 12th century classic of Arabic literature and the muraqqa’ tradition
Many Rivers to Cross
Siobhan Forshaw talks to Sadik Kwaish Alfraji about his recent exhibitions in Dubai and London revolving around a little boy in Baghdad
Iraqi Odyssey
‘Straddling a telling of his family’s history and that of Iraq from Ottoman times to the present, Samir’s aptly named film is nothing short of epic‘
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
With references to Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee, among others, Iraqi-Moroccan director Tala Hadid tells tales of hope and hopelessness in her feature-fiction debut film
Witness from Baghdad
‘In this life I was stripped of my humanity, but I have retrieved what is more sublime, more noble, through my dreams’ - Halim Al Karim