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This essay discusses the creation, conceptual framework, and pedagogical approaches to the course Arts Approaches to Conflict, offered in the Department of Political Science at Agnes Scott College, and arts-based approaches to teaching intersectional conflict analysis.

Guest editor's introduction to the special issue.

Revisiting a previously unpublished analysis of the
Clamor (2016) and
Tekist (2017) art shows presented at the Fine Arts Institute and the Museum of Modern Art in Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, Cockrell-Abdullah considers the spaces in which artists are siting their work so that they may speak to specific public audiences and their social and cultural concerns, and how this work creates sheltered civic space in Kurdish society that allows for open discussion of social problems.

Today, Kurds in Northern Iraq are employing a narrative of the Kurdish nation that bears strong ethnic roots and includes the memory of the victimization of the Kurdish nation. This essay examines the repurposing of the National Museum at Amna Suraka in Iraqi Kurdistan, from its former role as a Ba'ath site for detention, torture and execution, into a site for the preservation of Kurdish history and culture. In doing so, this essay locates the National Museum at Amna Suraka, and its role as a museum for Kurdish history and culture and as a national memorial,within the historical context of the Iraqi state. Such an examination, demonstrates the intersectional nature of the struggle for national identity within Iraqi Kurdish society, non-Kurds outside of Iraqi Kurdistan and for transnational Kurdish publics.

This essay considers the powerful practice of art in Iraqi Kurdistan as it balances practices and nationalities, values and identities to create an aesthetic that is uniquely Kurdish in its expression. This examination of contemporary Kurdish art begins by considering the challenges to writing about the visual arts in Kurdistan and discusses some of the indigenous projects that have worked to create an arts infrastructure to preserve and promote the arts in the city of Sulaimani. While reflecting on Kurdish legacies within Iraq, this essay further interrogates the contemporary products of a combined heritage and questions what pieces of this historical legacy will be brought forward into the future of Kurdistan.