Iraqi woman performing in the streets of Baghdad + Images

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, with the support of the mayor of Baghdad, 15 murals have been created in the streets and buildings of the city that commemorate figures from the world of architecture, poetry, thought and painting. The works were created by 49-year-old Iraqi artist Wajdan al-Majid.

In these murals, he has portrayed prominent figures in Iraqi culture and art, as well as some global figures such as “Mother Teresa” and “Max Weber”. Among Iraqis are portraits of Javad Saleem, the founder of modern Iraqi art and sculptor, Zaha Hadid, the late Iraqi-British architect, the poet Mohammad Mehdi Javaheri, and the historian and sociologist Ali al-Wardi.

Newspaper East Middle East Zaha Hadid describes the mural as follows: Zaha Hadid has implemented 950 projects in 44 countries. In his mural at the intersection in front of the Exchange Bridge, he seems to be eagerly awaiting a garden furnished with plants and flowers surrounded by white stone. The initiative was carried out by the capital municipality with the participation of Vajdan al-Majid, a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Baghdad University.

Majid about his paintings to AFP “We make deserted places happy,” he said. Sometimes municipal officials accompany him to settle in his place. “Sometimes I stay up late, sometimes until midnight or even at 2 in the morning,” he says. “The street is a concern for a woman at this time.” Sometimes passers-by are ridiculed because, according to him, they are not used to a woman painting.

One of his paintings is that of Muzaffar al-Nawab, nicknamed the “revolutionary poet,” who was imprisoned in Iraqi prisons for years for writing against the Ba’athist regime and now holds a special place among many Iraqis.

Al-Majid Conscience completes painting by Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab
Euronews Al-Majid describes the paintings as follows: The conscience draws its brush on these walls with elegance and calmness, creating turning points and brilliant features. The Iraqi artist has managed to break many of the restrictions and revitalize its streets in Baghdad, a city of 9 million people surrounded by tall concrete buildings.

* Integrated vision for the Baghdad renaissance

Alaa Maan, Mayor of Baghdad Independent He said the project is part of an integrated vision for the Baghdad renaissance and hopes to include the development of dilapidated infrastructure in the city. He believes that the murals are aimed at “creating beauty in the city by transferring art to the street and removing the gray color from the street.”

According to the mayor of Baghdad, the city generates 10,000 tons of garbage a day and still needs large infrastructure projects, which are hampered by corruption, mismanagement of public resources and bureaucracy in Iraq. He continued: the city is always the first victim, every problem in the country appears directly on the city scene, when there is unemployment, you see the peddlers, when there is a housing problem in the city, you see the slum dwellers.

At Baghdad Municipality Statement “Women are partners in building the future and life, and we are proud to mention the heroic positions of Iraqi women, positions that are more examples of the great role that women can play; Whether in defense of life, or at work, or complementing human activities, or in the fields of art, culture, politics and economics.

Al-Majid recreates “Hafiz al-Drubi” by Watermelon Sellers in famous Sadriya neighborhood

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