Nabil Salih
@nabilsalih.bsky.social
A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @jacobinmag.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
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My essay on my family's photographs in Iraq appeared in a new anthology from The Markaz Review, available in major bookstores and through the links below:
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Digital: themarkaz.org/all-issues/t...
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My essay on my family's photographs in Iraq appeared in a new anthology from The Markaz Review, available in major bookstores and through the links below:
Print: themarkaz.org/all-issues/t...
Digital: themarkaz.org/all-issues/t...
Print: themarkaz.org/all-issues/t...
Digital: themarkaz.org/all-issues/t...
Layla al-Attar (1944-1993)
Untitled, c. 1980
Untitled, c. 1980
September 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Layla al-Attar (1944-1993)
Untitled, c. 1980
Untitled, c. 1980
Shiʿr Magazine from the summer of the 1967 Naksa, featuring editor Yusuf al-Khal, the critic-artist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, and a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke. Kamal Boullata is the cover artist. Mahmoud Darwish opens the issue with a poem smuggled from prison: “Has your horse fallen, Saladin?”
July 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Shiʿr Magazine from the summer of the 1967 Naksa, featuring editor Yusuf al-Khal, the critic-artist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, and a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke. Kamal Boullata is the cover artist. Mahmoud Darwish opens the issue with a poem smuggled from prison: “Has your horse fallen, Saladin?”
“All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group” opened recently at the Hessel Museum of Art, with a catalog featuring essays by Jewad Selim, the curator Nada Shabout, and myself.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
“All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group” opened recently at the Hessel Museum of Art, with a catalog featuring essays by Jewad Selim, the curator Nada Shabout, and myself.
ccs.bard.edu/research-cen...
ccs.bard.edu/research-cen...
Death to Colonialism (1978)
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925-2004)
Mixed media on wood panel, 120 x 120
الموت للاستعمار (١٩٧٨) للراحل شاكر حسن آل سعيد (١٩٢٥-٢٠٠٤)
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925-2004)
Mixed media on wood panel, 120 x 120
الموت للاستعمار (١٩٧٨) للراحل شاكر حسن آل سعيد (١٩٢٥-٢٠٠٤)
June 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Death to Colonialism (1978)
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925-2004)
Mixed media on wood panel, 120 x 120
الموت للاستعمار (١٩٧٨) للراحل شاكر حسن آل سعيد (١٩٢٥-٢٠٠٤)
Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925-2004)
Mixed media on wood panel, 120 x 120
الموت للاستعمار (١٩٧٨) للراحل شاكر حسن آل سعيد (١٩٢٥-٢٠٠٤)
Visiting Arendt on my last week in New York.
May 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Visiting Arendt on my last week in New York.
A precious gift from the dear Hanaa Malallah.
May 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A precious gift from the dear Hanaa Malallah.
A reading of the German version by Mariko Miyamoto:
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monde-diplomatique.de/archiv-audio...
April 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A reading of the German version by Mariko Miyamoto:
monde-diplomatique.de/archiv-audio...
monde-diplomatique.de/archiv-audio...
A German translation of my @lrb.co.uk essay on Baghdad appeared in the April issue of @monde-diplomatique.fr’s German edition, with photographs reprinted from a recent @nybooks.com essay on “The New Baghdad”.
April 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A German translation of my @lrb.co.uk essay on Baghdad appeared in the April issue of @monde-diplomatique.fr’s German edition, with photographs reprinted from a recent @nybooks.com essay on “The New Baghdad”.