The Divide: Virtual Exhibition

Excellent virtual exhibition on...

Waving PLFP ("Popular Liberation Front of Palestine") flags, Palestinian youth demonstrate against the separation walls in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. The demonstration takes place on the international day commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Ahikam Seri, 2003.

Iraqi Self Expression

These pictures are not of the wall in Ahdhamia. According to a reputable source: “These concrete walls are on Al-Sa’doon street, and they are there to protect a hotel called “Baghdad Hotel” which was a building for the CIA and then a residence for the members of the Iraq Governing Councel in 2003.” (Thanks, Ahmed!) I am still leaving Zaid’s words because I think his point about the wall in Ahdhamia is important and his excitement about the art is still valid and very real.

Baghdad Wall

Baghdad Wall,

An Iraqi woman walks past a three-mile-long concrete wall around Baghdad's Sunni enclave of Adhamiyah, April 24, 2007. A similar wall is being constructed in Ghazaliya.
Ali Yussef / AFP / Getty