An Exile Artist From Iraq Paints Herself Into Ancient Illustrated Manuscripts

posted on: Mar 8, 2015

Hayv Kahraman was in her fourth grade history class in Baghdad when the question was asked: Is Iraq a democracy or a dictatorship? Not knowing what either word meant, she guessed “dictatorship.” This proved to be the wrong choice, no matter how right the answer was: the next day she was punished with a ruler in front of the other students.

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