Interview 

Objects that tell a story: product designer Hozan Zangana

Ruya Foundation spoke to Hozan Zangana, an Iraqi-Kurdish product designer based in the Netherlands. Zangana’s series Haft Sin, a set of plates and bowls he created for the festival of Nawruz, was on display at Design Days Dubai 2015. His latest collection, Shaping from Intuition recently launched at Dutch Design Week. What influenced the series Haft Sin,…
Video 

Video: Panel Discussion on art, conflict and Iraq

Ruya Foundation hosted a panel discussion on art, conflict and Iraq as part of its programme for Iraq Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. Held at the Scuola Grande dei Carmini the panel examined the role of art in conflict, and the ways in which artists’ contributions to the subject can effect change. The speakers…
Event 

Ruya’s new theatre production, the Girls of Baghdad, premieres at Muntada Theatre

Ruya Foundation’s new theatre production supported by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Girls of Baghdad, will premier in Baghdad at the Muntada Theatre on 3rd October. The play is written by Step Center for Drama Therapy. It is inspired by the stories of nine girls from the Flowers of Adhamiya Orphanage in Baghdad…
 

Drama Therapy: drawing and other art therapy methods

In March 2015 the Ruya Foundation launched the first drama therapy project in Iraq, with support from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Our diary about the project continues: During out daily meetings with the girls of Adhimiya Flowers Orphanage, we provided wider methods of art therapy, such as writing and drawing, since not all of…