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The Wolf of Baghdad Carol Isaacs
imad - January 15, 2021Carol Isaacs is a musician and, as The Surreal McCoy, a well-known cartoonist published in the New Yorker, Spectator and Sunday Times. The Wolf of Baghdad is also an animated slideshow with its own musical soundtrack, which is often performed by a live band including Isaacs on accordion and keyboards, playing music of Iraqi and Judeo-Arabic origin. Carol has worked with many artists
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Sarah Bahbah
imad - January 15, 2021Sarah Bahbah, the Palestinian, Australian-raised artist crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships. Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning the desire for inner peace, true love, fear of commitment, playful ambivalence towards life and the paradox of wanting intimacy but craving isolation. Known
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Wesaam Albadry
imad - January 14, 2021Wesaam Al-Badry was born in 1984 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. When Al-Badry was seven years old, at the outset of what became known as the Gulf War, Al-Badry’s mother fled on foot with her five children, including his six-day-old sister, as artillery shells fell around them. After hiking for three days, sometimes through knee-deep mud, they arrived
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Samir Khurshid Painter
imad - January 14, 2021Samir Khurshid is an Iraqi painter living in Portland, Oregon. From humble beginnings sketching portraits in the marketplace of his Iraqi hometown, Samir has traveled a difficult road to arrive in Portland, Oregon. Once a portrait painter of Saddam Hussein, completing almost 400 portraits of the former dictator during his compulsory military service, Samir became