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Imperial Race: A New Board Game About Iraq’s Ancient Heritage

A couple of months ago, the annual Global Grad Show in Dubai showcased innovative student-led projects from design and technology schools across the world. The Amman-based Iraqi designer and artist Durrah Alomar, a recent graduate of the German Jordanian University, presented Imperial Race, a new board game that teaches players about Iraq’s ancient heritage. Alomar…

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Ruya Shop: David Lynch, Wild At Heart (1990)

This weekend the Ruya Shop is screening David Lynch’s Wild At Heart (1990). Location: Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad Time: 10am – 2pm Date: Friday 4 January – Saturday 5 January Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford’s 1989 novel of the same name. Both…

Ruya Shop: Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture ( 1987)

This weekend the Ruya Shop is screening Bruce Naumann’s Clown Torture (1987). Location: Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad Time: 10am – 2pm Date: Friday 28 December – Saturday 29 December For the past 50 years, the American artist Bruce Nauman has worked in every conceivable artistic medium, dissolving inherited genres and inventing new ones in the process.…

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Ruya Shop: La Coquille et le Clergyman (1928), Germaine du Lac

This weekend the Ruya Shop is screening Germaine du Lac’s film La Coquille et le Clergyman (1928). Location: Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad Time: 10am – 2pm Date: Friday 21 Dec – Saturday 22 Dec Some historians consider Germaine Dulac’s La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) to be the first surrealist film ever…