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Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty

July 15, 2010 by  
Filed under Artists & People, Featured

BAGHDAD (AP).- Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over its future. They have a lot to deal with: A change of regime, foreign occupation, an insurgency, sectarian massacres and, now, the prospect of a divided nation left by the Americans in the hands of unpopular politicians, unprepared security forces and a fragile democracy. The [...]