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the title of a March 2008 piece by Hadani Ditmars in The Walrus about the exodus of artists and writers from Baghdad since 2003  |  version with photos here

Baghdad: City of Walls  |  video by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on guardian.co.uk  | some wall art on bbc.co.uk  | short video posted by multi-national (occupying) forces in Iraq  |  they have been sponsoring works on the walls… discussion by Mark Vallen  |  Mark Vallen’s excellent strand on artists and the Iraq war  |  piece in Foreign Policy in Focus on proliferation and role of walls in US policy in Baghdad | theatre: Berlin/Palestine-Israel… memory

gzrzflyerfront.jpg This exhibition, which looked at the fragmentation of Baghdad and other cities under the pretext of security, ran at Gemak in den Haag from 20 October 2007 until 31 January 2008  |  Some info in English here |  Interview with Robert Kluijver, Gemak curator, about the gallery and the exhibition  |  some photos of Bram Esser’s work for the exhibition