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June 16, 2009
Posted: 1217 GMT

** Note from IME Producer: If any of you plan on attending the exhibit, blog about it! Send us your thoughts, videos and photos and we'll share them on this blog.

“Artists in Exile: Iraqi Refugees in Damascus” will open June 20, World Refugee Day, and features artists who have fled from the war in Iraq and are now living in Syria.

Wadhah Mahdi, an Iraqi refugee artist in Damascus, with one of his paintings which will be featured in the exhibit along with paintings from some 19 other Iraqi refugee artists. Photo: UNHCR/G.Brust
Wadhah Mahdi, an Iraqi refugee artist in Damascus, with one of his paintings which will be featured in the exhibit along with paintings from some 19 other Iraqi refugee artists. Photo: UNHCR/G.Brust

The exhibit is sponsored by Common Humanity, a New York-based organization which seeks to build more understanding of and respect for the Arab and Muslim worlds. The exhibit also seeks to raise awareness of the plight of some 4 million Iraqi refugees and displaced persons within Iraq.

It is based upon a show held earlier this spring in Damascus which was organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The majority of the roughly 20 paintings are by Iraqi refugees who studied art and gained professional recognition in their homeland until violence forced them to flee across the desert to Syria. They are part of some 1.5 million Iraqi refugees who have been allowed to remain in safety in Syria but for whom few resources exist.

Dates: June 20 – July 11, Closed July 4
Hours: Tues – Fri 5 – 9 pm, Saturdays 10 – 8
Place: Second Presbyterian Church, 96th Street at Central Park West, NYC

Paintings will be on sale by silent auction. The paintings have already been purchased from the refugees and any profits from the sale of the paintings will be returned to the refugees. For more information: http://www.CommonHumanity.org or e-mail ML9612921@aol.com.

Filed under: Culture Calendar •Iraq •U.S.


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Johanna Fiore   June 21st, 2009 5:22 pm ET

I have a photograph I would like to send you along with my commentary how do send you the photograph?

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Johanna Fiore

alde   October 15th, 2010 8:20 pm ET

all best for it i wish it will seccfuly done and it will some kind of showing the world how much iraqi people are creator and they are not bad people but i would ask who do that to try make some commercial to more people know about it


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