Islam, the Humanities and the Human

In the immediate aftermath of the 1963 Iraqi Ba'ath Party-led coup d’état of the Republic of Iraq and assassination of its democratically elected Prime Minister, Abd al-Karim Qasim, several prominent artists began producing new artworks and public art exhibitions. Iraqi artists drew upon transnational anticolonial symbols and common motifs of the heroic worker, farmer, and revolutionary to visualize … Read More

In the late 1950s, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian returned to Iran after more than a decade in the United States, where she studied at Parsons School of Design and worked as an artist and layout designer at a now-defunct luxury department store, Bonwit Teller. Soon after her return, she joined the Point Four Program, launched by … Read More