Azad Shekhani

By Francesca Recchia, Azad Shekhani and Anna Wachmeister Spring 2010 | ArteZine Photography by Ehsan Maleki During the 1970s and the 1980s the Ba‘athist [alternative spelling is Ba‘thist] regime in Iraq displaced massively villagers in the northern region of Kurdistan from mountainous areas down to the valleys. The Iraqi government designed mujamma‘a or Collective Towns where these displaced populations were relocated. The planning…