The Art & Soul of Mosul: How this online project is reviving the city's cultural heritage
Can art help rebuild a city? The answer may lie in Mosul. In 2019, the Iraqi city, still scarred after years of ISIS occupation, welcomed the return of art to one of its prized cultural spaces – the Mosul Museum, where insurgents destroyed its collection of antiquities years earlier. The exhibition Return to Mosul, developed by Al-Ghad Radio, featured 90 paintings and sculptures by artists from Mosul and other parts of Iraq. It marked the city’s liberation and recovery, and acted as an exp...
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