Contested City Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad Fashion Against a backdrop of escalating

Against a backdrop of escalating armed conflicts and disintegrating state structures

Published July 09

Each project features fully-illustrated step-by-step instructions

readers see a troupe of characters march past in colourful array

14% of MoMA’s 2016 display is by non-white artists

Contested City Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad Fashion Against a backdrop of escalatingContested City offers a history of state society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Interactions between citizens and their rulers shaped the social fabric and political realities of the city. Notably, low ranking Ba'th party officials functioned as crucial intermediaries, deciding how regime