Artists Reclaim Culture in Mosul After ISIS Published May 5th, 2021 - 06:18 GMT muralist Taj al Din Milli (Instagram) Highlights After the fall of Daesh, expressing my artistic freedom and showing the real Mosul was a kind of revenge for me Nearly four years since Daesh's departure, Maslawi artists and musicians are reclaiming cultural life in northern Iraq’s beleaguered city, Mosul. Also Read On April 8 last year, music filled the restored Al-Rabea Theatre in Mosul again. The newly founded Watar orchestral ensemble performed at the iconic venue that had been abandoned since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and destroyed during the northern city's occupation by Daesh.