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This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants.

This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants.

ISAW is pleased to host a screening of the groundbreaking documentary "Iraq's Invisible Beauty" written and directed by Jurgen Buedst and Sahim Omar Kalifa. The screening will be preceded by a pre-recorded conversation between the director Jurgen Buedts and the Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal, Arts Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

This event will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Co-curator of ISAW’s Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq exhibition, hosts a conversation with artists Adel Abidin, Nadine Hattom, Hanaa Malallah, Mahmoud Obaidi, and Walid Siti as they discuss the genesis of this project. The artists will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss their works in relation to Latif Al Ani's pictures and Nineteenth century excavation practices, and evaluate the role of art in the depiction and understanding of ancient Iraq.

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. To celebrate the opening of the Institute of the Study of the Ancient World’s new exhibition Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq, join us for a screening of Iraq’s Invisible Beauty (2022), a documentary exploring the work and life of the father of Iraqi photography, Latif Al Ani.

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Co-curator of ISAW’s Through the Lens, Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq exhibition, hosts a conversation with Pedro Azara (Barcelona University) and artists Nadine Hattom and Mahmoud Obaidi as they discuss the genesis of this project. Pedro, Nadine, and Mahmoud will address the themes of the exhibition, discuss the contemporary artworks on display, and evaluate the role of photography in the depiction and understanding of ancient Iraq.