Session 5B – Monumental Baghdad: The Complexities of Public Art in the City of Peace

Chair: Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas)

Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) – New Narratives: Monumental Renovation and Cultural Consumption
Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) – Legendary Baghdad: Ghani’s City of Monuments
Peter Wien (University of Maryland) – Monumental Art, Totalitarian Storytelling, and the Persistence of Narrative
Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University) – Ghosts of the Gates of Baghdad: Monuments, Colonialism and Spatial Transformation in Early Twentieth Century Iraq
Session in honor of Tareq Ismael