How artist Michael Rakowitz resurrects lost past of Iraq through food packaging

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has long been on a mission to revive the lost remnants of Iraq ― physical, cultural and historical ― through an unlikely set of materials: scraps of Arabic and English newspapers, vibrantly colored Middle Eastern food packaging and tin cans that used to contain Iraqi date syrup.

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