Drama Therapy: “What does a play look like?”

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. Ruya’s diary about the project continues: Though the girls and teenagers at Adhimiya Flowers Orphanage had started training with the drama therapists, none of them had ever been to see…
Interview 

Interview: the anonymous group Daafish and their satirical cartoons against IS.

Daafish is a group of anonymous Iraqi activists, who create and publish satirical cartoons about the so-called Islamic State (IS) on Facebook. Since launching in April 2015, they have built a tremendous following across the country and beyond. Audiences in IS controlled territories have reached out to them with ideas for new satirical cartoons—while supporters…
News 

Latif Al Ani named 2015 Prince Claus Laureate

Ruya Foundation is delighted that photographer Latif Al Ani has been named a 2015 Prince Claus Laureate. Latif Al Ani (b. 1932) is currently exhibiting in Invisible Beauty, the National Pavilion of Iraq at the 56th Venice Biennale, which was commissioned by the Ruya Foundation. Invisible Beauty constitutes the first major international exhibition of Al Ani’s work since…