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The Iraqi city and architecture in Latif Al Ani’ s work: yesterday’s modernity, a model for the future?

Architectural historian Caecilia Pieri reflects on photographer Latif Al Ani’s work of the 50s and 60s, documenting the modern expansion of Baghdad and Iraq’s cities. Pieri is an associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East, and the author of Baghdad: la construction d’une capitale moderne 1914-1960 (2015) and Baghdad Arts Deco (2003) among other publications. Latif al Ani…
Essay, Interview 

Justine Hardy, author and trauma psychologist, on art, conflict and healing.

Ruya Foundation invited Justine Hardy, author and trauma psychologist to speak at a panel discussion on art, conflict and Iraq, for the opening of the Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale. Hardy founded the groundbreaking mental health project Healing Kashmir, and has reported on and written about South Asia for over 20 years.…
Essay 

The Child Tempered by War: Julian Stallabrass on the work of photographer Ayman al-Amiri

Art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass writes about Baghdad-based photographer Ayman al-Amiri’s series Homage to Tarkowsky (2013). The 19 year old photographer is currently working on a documentary series produced by RUYA. In the opening to Tarkovsky’s film, Ivan’s Childhood, which is set during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a very beautiful boy runs…