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Iraqi paradoxes: Zaha Hadid watches the "Bank Tower" and its Australian engineer is in Baghdad prison, and a cinema that turns into a pharmacy
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Shafaq News/ The American "Middle East Institute" reviewed the challenges, difficulties and transformations that the field of culture in Iraq has witnessed in recent decades, and attempts to revive cultural life in the country during the past 20 years, despite the stumbling blocks and obstacles it faces.
At the beginning, the American report, which was translated by Shafaq News Agency, indicated; Until the scene from the eighth floor of the Babylon Hotel across the Tigris River reveals a deceptive scene, explaining that the Iraqi flag lights up like a giant neon billboard adorning the 32-storey Baghdad commercial center, between Coca-Cola ads, while the ghost of the Iraqi-British architect looms. The late Zaha Hadid significantly over the adjacent tower, which is being implemented after she was commissioned in 2010, to engineer this tower to be the main headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq and a symbol of a "new era", but it has not been completed yet, while the Australian engineer whose company helped build it is still , detained in Iraqi prisons after a dispute over payment.
The report pointed out that Zaha Hadid may be consulting with the ghost of Semiramis, whose spirit hovers in the Assyrian exhibition in the newly renovated Iraqi Museum, about the challenges of building palaces on the banks of the river, adding that the fate of the luxurious Semiramis cinema, which consists of three floors and dates back to the seventies and was named after the Assyrian queen, It may be a guide for understanding.
The report added that the cinema is located on Al-Saadoun Street, a few hundred meters from the banks of the Tigris River, and it escaped the closure of theaters during the period of international embargo when chemicals for film treatment were prohibited.
He added that the cinema succumbed to chaos and violence after the 2003 invasion, and the cinema was closed in 2007, and has now been turned into a pharmacy.
As for Iraq, according to the report, it is always cinematic in scope, and it is a strange movie in which the biblical epic, Hollywood and black comedy mix, adding that two decades after American soldiers toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Paradise Square, it is possible that my soul is astonished. Hadid and Queen Semiramis, watching the scene with confused anxiety and perhaps even a glimmer of hope.
The report considered that despite Baghdad's decline in the interests of international news, the city is thriving with high oil prices, and is full of new Abbasid aspirations fueled by oil. He pointed to the Babylon Hotel, which was built in the historical style in order to host the seventh summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1982, but the Iraq-Iran war impeded the meeting, and it is now full of Iranian pilgrims and Chinese businessmen.
More importantly, the report added, thanks to new anti-money laundering legislation put forward by Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, the money is being directed not only to hotels and real estate, but also to new cultural institutions, as Iraqi governments have pledged to increase their funding, even pledging to build The long-awaited opera house. He added that it was unclear whether there was any national funding on offer to support the arts with a small portion of the country's total budget of $153 billion, to be allocated towards real projects rather than just the salaries of Ministry of Culture employees.
After the report asked what culture looks like in Iraq in the year 2023, he said that in light of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the cultural traditions that existed before the invasion gave way to capitalist realities.
He pointed out that the new galleries are selling commercial art to foreign and Iraqi ambassadors returning from abroad, with the old gallery scene that flourished in the Abu Nawas area on the banks of the river slowly fading away, as the famous "Dijla Art Gallery", which was launched by Zainab Mahdi in her house that belongs to To the British colonial era in 1997, to close its doors, after the neighborhood became home to slum dwellers and militia headquarters.
Now, the Degla Gallery sells artwork only by prior appointment to private collectors.
And the report continued; The dilapidated villas dating back to the Ottoman and colonial eras in the area are exposed to new threats from real estate developers as the real estate market heats up.
A few miles to the north, the Iraq Museum of Modern Art is still recovering from post-invasion looting of its 8,000-piece collection. He added that the works of the pioneering Iraqi artist, Shaker Hassan Al Said, dating back to the seventies, under the title "Death to Colonialism", are one of the few artworks from the golden age of Iraqi art that are still on display in the museum, adding that the Iraqi artistic heritage is facing today a new form of looting. in counterfeiting and illegal trafficking.
On the sidelines of a new art exhibition in Karrada, the report pointed to the mixing of some figures of the old guard of artists with the new rich, and quoted the veteran actor and playwright Haitham Abdel-Razzaq, dangerous statements, on the sidelines of Al-Maaraq.
The report added that Abdul Razzaq's latest play, entitled "Disease of Democracy," deals with criticism of corruption and the chaos of American intervention and its repercussions. Even under "the new Iraq, there are still red lines that you can't cross. You can't talk about religious hierarchies or militias," Abd al-Razzaq said, adding that if someone wants to address any issue of corruption, they have to adopt the general approach rather than the specific one.
Abd al-Razzaq noted that much of his work takes place abroad, in France and Germany, adding that he is currently working on another play about "democracy", which takes the Iraqi example to a global level where "democracy is just a cover for the rich until they get richer".
And after the report mentioned Abdul-Razzaq's play in 2004, entitled "I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean that," which deals with issues of freedom of expression, which was not shown in Baghdad, Abdul-Razzaq said in response to a question about whether there is freedom in Iraq now, by saying, "Is there "Freedom anywhere? There are red lines everywhere. In America, they export freedom and democracy with violent military interventions."
The report quoted the late poet Saadi Youssef as saying in 2005 that "it was not easy for artists in Iraq." The report pointed out that Youssef was like a man of Iraqi culture and was famous for his poem "America, America", which is an anthem to the cultural challenge.
He added that Youssef considers that the short golden age of art in Iraq roughly coincided with the era of Saddam Hussein's predecessor, President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, who until his resignation in 1979, the revenues of the newly nationalized oil industry were being diverted to public art, literary magazines, theaters and galleries, as well as About a successful campaign to eradicate illiteracy.
The report quotes Youssef as saying that things began to change with Saddam's rise to power, as hundreds of thousands of young men were sacrificed on the battlefield with Iran, and cultural resources were drained in order to finance the war, just as 13 years of harsh punishment followed Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. 1990 created miserable lives for Iraqi civilians while contributing to the consolidation of the regime's authority, and posed new challenges for Iraqi artists.
According to Youssef, sighing sadly, the situation now (in the year 2005) is that he lacks security after the invasion and the end of the state that was secular in the past, considering that "this is the worst thing that has ever happened."
The report continued that although the situation now in the year 2023 is safer, there is a feeling that things are fading and being erased, as if the years of strife had created a kind of self-censorship and intellectual vacuum, adding that the Iraqi culture, as it was in the past, is disappearing like many Its ancient sites and modern ruins, while bulldozers are building new roads and shopping centers are being built.
And about the Al-Rashid Theater, which was destroyed by American bombs in 2003 and was looted by looters, it took 20 years to begin its reconstruction. The report quoted the Director General of Theater and Cinema at the Ministry of Culture, Ahmed Hassan Musa, as saying that he hoped that the reforms started by volunteers in 2016 and led by former Minister of Culture Abdul Amir al-Hamdani would be completed in 2019 in time for a major international theater festival next fall.
The report stated that although the educational institutions in Baghdad, which were the best in the Arab world, are still recovering from the assassination campaign that followed the invasion against professors and intellectuals, the College of Fine Arts continues to attract dozens of enthusiastic students. He added that 300 million dollars were transferred from Saddam's old palaces near the airport to the new campus of the American University in Iraq - Baghdad, with funding from one Iraqi family. The report added that just as Saddam sought to rebuild Baghdad as the capital of the new Abbasids in 1982, the campus of the American University in Iraq was inspired by the House of Wisdom and the Al-Mustansiriya School, which were centers of learning in the Middle Ages.
musical interludes
The report stated that things are looking brighter for the music scene in Baghdad, since post-invasion militia violence against Western orchestras has decreased, while foreign and government funding has increased.
The report talked about the Oud player Ahmed Salem, who is the director of the School of Music and Ballet, and the director of the “Music Institute”, which is located in the former British Consulate in the Ottoman era (where Gertrude Bell used to reside) on Al-Rasheed Street, which was newly restored with the support of the US Agency for International Development.
Salem pointed out that security is now better than it was in the aftermath of the invasion, when the Iraqi National Orchestra played under armed guard, adding that cultural projects in the post-ISIS phase supported music in order to regain its rightful place in Iraqi society. He noted that this music consists mostly of politically apolitical pop and instrumental music, in contrast to the protest songs that are routinely posted anonymously on social media.
And the report continued that on that night, the special guest was musician Naseer Shamma, and the competing young students are all associated with the "Bait Al Oud" project, which aims to preserve and promote traditional music. He added that after Naseer Shamma, who is the UNESCO Ambassador for Peace, gave a speech about the victory of Iraqi culture in the aftermath of ISIS, many students - both Iraqis and recently arrived Syrian refugees - competed for the first prize, noting that it was an encouraging thing to watch. Young men compete through oud instead of being recruited into militias.
Dreaming of Baghdad in Kurdistan
The report quoted the Kurdish oud player Majed Al-Khalidi, who resides in Sulaymaniyah, and who previously taught Salem and is from Adhamiya, that he is eager to return to Baghdad, adding that "there is a lot of work for musicians in Baghdad. It is the world capital after all." ".
According to veteran Kurdish painter Othman Ahmed, whose constant theme was genocide and who gave art lessons to children of Kurdish independence fighters, he indicated that funding for artists in Baghdad is more than in the Kurdistan Region. The report quoted Ahmed, who has lived and trained in London for decades, as saying, "I would love to get an offer there."
The report pointed out that Ahmed's detailed pen-and-ink drawings depicting the genocide of the Kurds are more popular in the West than in Sulaymaniyah.
With regard to the Iraq Museum, the new director, Lama al-Douri, plans to expand educational programs, while the recently refurbished Assyrian Gallery is a jewel among its many impressive rooms. The report added that the museum, which was once a symbol of the cultural devastation wrought by the 2003 invasion, has become a promising example of the ongoing, albeit fragile, cultural renewal in Iraq.
"For now, the ghosts of Semiramis and Zaha Hadid, as well as Lamia al-Gilani, the late great archaeologist who fought for the survival of the Iraqi Museum, will have a lot to discuss," he continued.
The American report concluded by saying that in Iraq, a country where contemporary cultural development has historically been linked to the price of oil, one hopes that some of the state's investment in the golden age of the seventies in the arts will soon become something tangible, to create a counterbalance to the fluctuations of the free market, and as a blessing to an ancient culture. Rising from the ashes of three decades of destruction.
Translation: Shafak News Agency
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Shafaq News/ The American "Middle East Institute" reviewed the challenges, difficulties and transformations that the field of culture in Iraq has witnessed in recent decades, and attempts to revive cultural life in the country during the past 20 years, despite the stumbling blocks and obstacles it faces.
At the beginning, the American report, which was translated by Shafaq News Agency, indicated; Until the scene from the eighth floor of the Babylon Hotel across the Tigris River reveals a deceptive scene, explaining that the Iraqi flag lights up like a giant neon billboard adorning the 32-storey Baghdad commercial center, between Coca-Cola ads, while the ghost of the Iraqi-British architect looms. The late Zaha Hadid significantly over the adjacent tower, which is being implemented after she was commissioned in 2010, to engineer this tower to be the main headquarters of the Central Bank of Iraq and a symbol of a "new era", but it has not been completed yet, while the Australian engineer whose company helped build it is still , detained in Iraqi prisons after a dispute over payment.
The report pointed out that Zaha Hadid may be consulting with the ghost of Semiramis, whose spirit hovers in the Assyrian exhibition in the newly renovated Iraqi Museum, about the challenges of building palaces on the banks of the river, adding that the fate of the luxurious Semiramis cinema, which consists of three floors and dates back to the seventies and was named after the Assyrian queen, It may be a guide for understanding.
The report added that the cinema is located on Al-Saadoun Street, a few hundred meters from the banks of the Tigris River, and it escaped the closure of theaters during the period of international embargo when chemicals for film treatment were prohibited.
He added that the cinema succumbed to chaos and violence after the 2003 invasion, and the cinema was closed in 2007, and has now been turned into a pharmacy.
As for Iraq, according to the report, it is always cinematic in scope, and it is a strange movie in which the biblical epic, Hollywood and black comedy mix, adding that two decades after American soldiers toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Paradise Square, it is possible that my soul is astonished. Hadid and Queen Semiramis, watching the scene with confused anxiety and perhaps even a glimmer of hope.
The report considered that despite Baghdad's decline in the interests of international news, the city is thriving with high oil prices, and is full of new Abbasid aspirations fueled by oil. He pointed to the Babylon Hotel, which was built in the historical style in order to host the seventh summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1982, but the Iraq-Iran war impeded the meeting, and it is now full of Iranian pilgrims and Chinese businessmen.
More importantly, the report added, thanks to new anti-money laundering legislation put forward by Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, the money is being directed not only to hotels and real estate, but also to new cultural institutions, as Iraqi governments have pledged to increase their funding, even pledging to build The long-awaited opera house. He added that it was unclear whether there was any national funding on offer to support the arts with a small portion of the country's total budget of $153 billion, to be allocated towards real projects rather than just the salaries of Ministry of Culture employees.
After the report asked what culture looks like in Iraq in the year 2023, he said that in light of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the cultural traditions that existed before the invasion gave way to capitalist realities.
He pointed out that the new galleries are selling commercial art to foreign and Iraqi ambassadors returning from abroad, with the old gallery scene that flourished in the Abu Nawas area on the banks of the river slowly fading away, as the famous "Dijla Art Gallery", which was launched by Zainab Mahdi in her house that belongs to To the British colonial era in 1997, to close its doors, after the neighborhood became home to slum dwellers and militia headquarters.
Now, the Degla Gallery sells artwork only by prior appointment to private collectors.
And the report continued; The dilapidated villas dating back to the Ottoman and colonial eras in the area are exposed to new threats from real estate developers as the real estate market heats up.
A few miles to the north, the Iraq Museum of Modern Art is still recovering from post-invasion looting of its 8,000-piece collection. He added that the works of the pioneering Iraqi artist, Shaker Hassan Al Said, dating back to the seventies, under the title "Death to Colonialism", are one of the few artworks from the golden age of Iraqi art that are still on display in the museum, adding that the Iraqi artistic heritage is facing today a new form of looting. in counterfeiting and illegal trafficking.
On the sidelines of a new art exhibition in Karrada, the report pointed to the mixing of some figures of the old guard of artists with the new rich, and quoted the veteran actor and playwright Haitham Abdel-Razzaq, dangerous statements, on the sidelines of Al-Maaraq.
The report added that Abdul Razzaq's latest play, entitled "Disease of Democracy," deals with criticism of corruption and the chaos of American intervention and its repercussions. Even under "the new Iraq, there are still red lines that you can't cross. You can't talk about religious hierarchies or militias," Abd al-Razzaq said, adding that if someone wants to address any issue of corruption, they have to adopt the general approach rather than the specific one.
Abd al-Razzaq noted that much of his work takes place abroad, in France and Germany, adding that he is currently working on another play about "democracy", which takes the Iraqi example to a global level where "democracy is just a cover for the rich until they get richer".
And after the report mentioned Abdul-Razzaq's play in 2004, entitled "I'm sorry, sir, I didn't mean that," which deals with issues of freedom of expression, which was not shown in Baghdad, Abdul-Razzaq said in response to a question about whether there is freedom in Iraq now, by saying, "Is there "Freedom anywhere? There are red lines everywhere. In America, they export freedom and democracy with violent military interventions."
The report quoted the late poet Saadi Youssef as saying in 2005 that "it was not easy for artists in Iraq." The report pointed out that Youssef was like a man of Iraqi culture and was famous for his poem "America, America", which is an anthem to the cultural challenge.
He added that Youssef considers that the short golden age of art in Iraq roughly coincided with the era of Saddam Hussein's predecessor, President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, who until his resignation in 1979, the revenues of the newly nationalized oil industry were being diverted to public art, literary magazines, theaters and galleries, as well as About a successful campaign to eradicate illiteracy.
The report quotes Youssef as saying that things began to change with Saddam's rise to power, as hundreds of thousands of young men were sacrificed on the battlefield with Iran, and cultural resources were drained in order to finance the war, just as 13 years of harsh punishment followed Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. 1990 created miserable lives for Iraqi civilians while contributing to the consolidation of the regime's authority, and posed new challenges for Iraqi artists.
According to Youssef, sighing sadly, the situation now (in the year 2005) is that he lacks security after the invasion and the end of the state that was secular in the past, considering that "this is the worst thing that has ever happened."
The report continued that although the situation now in the year 2023 is safer, there is a feeling that things are fading and being erased, as if the years of strife had created a kind of self-censorship and intellectual vacuum, adding that the Iraqi culture, as it was in the past, is disappearing like many Its ancient sites and modern ruins, while bulldozers are building new roads and shopping centers are being built.
And about the Al-Rashid Theater, which was destroyed by American bombs in 2003 and was looted by looters, it took 20 years to begin its reconstruction. The report quoted the Director General of Theater and Cinema at the Ministry of Culture, Ahmed Hassan Musa, as saying that he hoped that the reforms started by volunteers in 2016 and led by former Minister of Culture Abdul Amir al-Hamdani would be completed in 2019 in time for a major international theater festival next fall.
The report stated that although the educational institutions in Baghdad, which were the best in the Arab world, are still recovering from the assassination campaign that followed the invasion against professors and intellectuals, the College of Fine Arts continues to attract dozens of enthusiastic students. He added that 300 million dollars were transferred from Saddam's old palaces near the airport to the new campus of the American University in Iraq - Baghdad, with funding from one Iraqi family. The report added that just as Saddam sought to rebuild Baghdad as the capital of the new Abbasids in 1982, the campus of the American University in Iraq was inspired by the House of Wisdom and the Al-Mustansiriya School, which were centers of learning in the Middle Ages.
musical interludes
The report stated that things are looking brighter for the music scene in Baghdad, since post-invasion militia violence against Western orchestras has decreased, while foreign and government funding has increased.
The report talked about the Oud player Ahmed Salem, who is the director of the School of Music and Ballet, and the director of the “Music Institute”, which is located in the former British Consulate in the Ottoman era (where Gertrude Bell used to reside) on Al-Rasheed Street, which was newly restored with the support of the US Agency for International Development.
Salem pointed out that security is now better than it was in the aftermath of the invasion, when the Iraqi National Orchestra played under armed guard, adding that cultural projects in the post-ISIS phase supported music in order to regain its rightful place in Iraqi society. He noted that this music consists mostly of politically apolitical pop and instrumental music, in contrast to the protest songs that are routinely posted anonymously on social media.
And the report continued that on that night, the special guest was musician Naseer Shamma, and the competing young students are all associated with the "Bait Al Oud" project, which aims to preserve and promote traditional music. He added that after Naseer Shamma, who is the UNESCO Ambassador for Peace, gave a speech about the victory of Iraqi culture in the aftermath of ISIS, many students - both Iraqis and recently arrived Syrian refugees - competed for the first prize, noting that it was an encouraging thing to watch. Young men compete through oud instead of being recruited into militias.
Dreaming of Baghdad in Kurdistan
The report quoted the Kurdish oud player Majed Al-Khalidi, who resides in Sulaymaniyah, and who previously taught Salem and is from Adhamiya, that he is eager to return to Baghdad, adding that "there is a lot of work for musicians in Baghdad. It is the world capital after all." ".
According to veteran Kurdish painter Othman Ahmed, whose constant theme was genocide and who gave art lessons to children of Kurdish independence fighters, he indicated that funding for artists in Baghdad is more than in the Kurdistan Region. The report quoted Ahmed, who has lived and trained in London for decades, as saying, "I would love to get an offer there."
The report pointed out that Ahmed's detailed pen-and-ink drawings depicting the genocide of the Kurds are more popular in the West than in Sulaymaniyah.
With regard to the Iraq Museum, the new director, Lama al-Douri, plans to expand educational programs, while the recently refurbished Assyrian Gallery is a jewel among its many impressive rooms. The report added that the museum, which was once a symbol of the cultural devastation wrought by the 2003 invasion, has become a promising example of the ongoing, albeit fragile, cultural renewal in Iraq.
"For now, the ghosts of Semiramis and Zaha Hadid, as well as Lamia al-Gilani, the late great archaeologist who fought for the survival of the Iraqi Museum, will have a lot to discuss," he continued.
The American report concluded by saying that in Iraq, a country where contemporary cultural development has historically been linked to the price of oil, one hopes that some of the state's investment in the golden age of the seventies in the arts will soon become something tangible, to create a counterbalance to the fluctuations of the free market, and as a blessing to an ancient culture. Rising from the ashes of three decades of destruction.
Translation: Shafak News Agency
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