Stories in Art from Iraqi Kurdistan

April 2, 2016  •  14 Images

In the last three years Iraqi Kurdistan (northern Iraq) with a usual population of 5 million has become host to 2.5 million refugees and displaced persons. This small geographical area is now home to several faith and cultural groups including Syrian and Syrian Kurdish refugees and Iraqi, Yazidi and Christian internally displaced persons (IDP).

Kathy Moohhead Thiessen, working with a Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), began the search for people willing to share their story. Soon works of art from Iraqi Kurds, Syrian Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrian Christians and Iraqi Arabs began to arrive at the CPT house.

Some of the artworks are quite primitive but with the artists' statements have a huge impact. We see pictures of places where there were few photographs taken and we are able to view the events Assyrian Christian artist right from the people who were there.

 

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