Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Josh Bitelli

Josh Bitelli

Basim Magdy—the Deutsche Bank’s 2016 ""Artist of the Year""—has already presented his multifaceted oeuvre in numerous international group exhibitions

In the resulting essay

Dimensions: height 20 x width 16 cm

Published in the United Arab Emirates"

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood and Sovereignty in Iraq Lifestyle Josh BitelliIraq was the first postcolonial state recognised as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth century wave of decolonisation movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernisation theorists and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projectsfrom the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920