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Assassin's Creed Mirage gameplay trailer unveils a return to the franchise's roots

Hindustan Times 25 May 2023
In the gameplay trailer, viewers are treated to an immersive experience as they follow the protagonist, Basim, through a meticulously and intricately crafted medieval Baghdad. The core emphasis is placed on stealth, parkour, and the art of assassination, evoking a sense of ...
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How Assassin’s Creed Mirage captured the Islamic golden age – in a disused New York ...

The Guardian 22 May 2023
The game is set at the height of the Islamic golden age, and centres around Baghdad. a hub flowing with the lifeblood of a changing world, a cultural centre of art and science, old ...
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How Assassin’s Creed Mirage captured the Islamic golden age – in a disused New York power station

The Observer 22 May 2023
The game is set at the height of the Islamic golden age, and centres around Baghdad. a hub flowing with the lifeblood of a changing world, a cultural centre of art and science, old and new. “When I first learned that the new Assassin’s Creed takes place in 9th-century Baghdad, I ...
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Adel Abidin awarded $100,000 to create 2023 Ithra Art Prize-winning work

Longview News-Journal 16 May 2023
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) is excited to announce Iraqi-Finnish artist Adel Abidin as the winner of the 5th Ithra Art Prize ... The Helsinki-based artist holds a BA in painting from Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA from Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts.
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Christie’s lines up modern masters from the Middle East  

Arab News 05 May 2023
After a three-year interval because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Christie’s Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art sale is back in action in Dubai ... A selection of Al-Faisal’s work was recently featured at the Islamic Arts Biennale that opened in Jeddah in January ... He co-founded the Baghdad Group for Modern Art with Jewad Selim in 1951.
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Annual exhibition of Kahramana Arts Association held in Iraq

Xinhua 04 May 2023
People visit the annual exhibition of the Kahramana Arts Association at the headquarters of the ...
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Female representations dominate Iraqi artist Afifa Aleiby’s Dubai exhibition

The Arab Weekly 13 Apr 2023
The solo art show titled “Timeless echoes” will go on till May 8 ... She studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad while working as an illustrator for the Iraqi press, before leaving Iraq for the Soviet Union in 1974 to study and specialise in monumental art at the Suikuv Institute in Moscow, her biography says.
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In Pictures: Street art murals in Baghdad

Gulf News 11 Apr 2023
A girl and a peacock are depicted in a painting on the wall of a traditional house in street art in Baghdad's al-Anbari neighbourhood ... In street art in Baghdad, a girl is depicted in a painting on the wall of a traditional house.
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For acclaimed Artist Mahmoud Obaidi, art is a tool of justice

Gulf News 03 Apr 2023
Can you tell us how you first became interested in art? ... Since I was a kid, I found myself returning to art after every stage of my life ... The artist in his studio, creating works that are displayed in international institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad; the British Museum, London; and the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE.
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The UK-based artists memorialising Iraqi national sacrifice

The New Arab 16 Mar 2023
... and researcher Hardi Kurda, working to archive the sound of his native city in Kurdistan, Jasmine Naziha Jones, author of the play Baghdaddy, or Mohammed Sami, born in Baghdad in 1984, whose work is at the centre of an extraordinary exhibition at the Camden Art Centre in London.
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Iraq 20 years on: researchers assess how US invasion shapes lives today — podcast

The Conversation 16 Mar 2023
An abandoned house in the old town of Mosul, Iraq ... The U.S ... Sana Murrani Associate Professor in Spatial Practice and Deputy Director for the Doctoral College for the Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Originally from Baghdad, Murrani fled Iraq shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ... invasion ... .
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MIA Announces Series Of Activities In Celebration Of 'Iraqi Week'

MENA FN 16 Feb 2023
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) The Peninsula Doha. As part of the ongoing 'Baghdad. Eye's Delight' exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), the museum is hosting a series of Iraqi-influenced ... .
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Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern — including food remains — in Iraq

Egypt Independent 06 Feb 2023
It has since become an important archaeological site, with excavations restarting most recently in 2019 as part of a joint project between the Penn Museum, the University of Cambridge and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Baghdad, using new techniques such as drone photography and genetic analysis.
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Mohammed Sami: The Point 0; Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation – review

The Guardian 29 Jan 2023
Camden Arts Centre; Estorick Collection, London The masterly paintings of Baghdad-born Mohammed Sami conjure an ominous no man’s land ... His head is lost in the shadows ... Its title is Meditation Room ....
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Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora’s work finds the beauty in decay

Arab News 27 Jan 2023
On the night before the bombing began, Sora, who is of Kurdish origin, drove with her family from Baghdad to the town of Balad Ruz, around 120 kilometers away ... We watched the B-52’s bomb Baghdad.” ... Sora was born in Baghdad in 1976, three years before Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq, changing the course of political affairs in the Middle East.

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