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Baghdad City of Peace Carnival – World Peace Day

To celebrate the UN’s World Peace Day, the non-governmental organisation IQ Peace hosted the Baghdad City of Peace Festival on 21 September. The term Madinat al Salam, or “City of Peace” may seem unusual for Baghdad, but this was the city’s name in the Abbasid times. This year, the annual event was bigger than ever,…
 

Furat al Jamil’s Baghdad Night shortlisted for ArtRaker 2014

Baghdad Night, a 3-d animation film by artist and filmmaker Furat al Jamil, has been shortlisted for the second Artraker Awards for art in conflict zones. The short film, co-produced by the Ruya Foundation, premiered in November 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival, and was then displayed at the Neighbour’s exhibition at Istanbul Modern…
 

Istanbul Modern: Furat al Jamil and Hayv Kahraman in Conversation

At the opening of Neighbours, a new exhibition at Istanbul Modern, we asked Iraqi artists Furat al Jamil and Hayv Kahraman to talk about experiences that affected their work. FaJ: Where did everything start? How did you come to be painting on wood? HK: My first works were on brown paper. The tone of the…