Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Basim Magdy—the Deutsche Bank’s 2016

Basim Magdy—the Deutsche Bank’s 2016 ""Artist of the Year""—has already presented his multifaceted oeuvre in numerous international group exhibitions

Publisher: Tashkeel

In this comprehensive introduction the authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic

Josh Bitelli

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Basim Magdy—the Deutsche Bank’s 2016Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognised as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth century wave of decolonisation movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernisation theorists and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projectsfrom the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920