Artists Reclaim Culture in Mosul After ISIS Published May 5th, 2021 - 06:18 GMT
muralist Taj al Din Milli (Instagram)
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After the fall of Daesh, expressing my artistic freedom and showing the real Mosul was a kind of revenge for me
Nearly four years since Daesh s departure, Maslawi artists and musicians are reclaiming cultural life in northern Iraq’s beleaguered city, Mosul.
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On April 8 last year, music filled the restored Al-Rabea Theatre in Mosul again. The newly founded Watar orchestral ensemble performed at the iconic venue that had been abandoned since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and destroyed during the northern city s occupation by Daesh.