In Conversation With : Olga Nefedova Part 2

Author Daf Beirut

A series of in depth interviews with Arthur Debsi, writer and researcher at Dalloul Art Foundation where he discusses various subjects with professionals in the Arab world.

Olga Nefedova – Art historian, associate professor at the National Research University, Moscow

Part 2. In July 14th, 1958, the Iraqi Army Brigadier Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963) led a revolution, which overthrew the Hashemite monarchy ruled by King Faisal I (1883-1933). Since then, the Iraqi Republic fostered its diplomatic and military links with the USSR. In the second part of the conversation, Olga Nefedova presents another subject of her research Untold Stories of the First Iraqi Art Exhibition in the USSR. This essay focuses on the first Iraqi Art exhibition held in 1959 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Iraqi Republic and highlights some works from Ismail Al-Cheikhli (1924-2002), and Shaker Hassan al-Said (1925-2004).

Video recorded on Zoom by Arthur Debsi

Edited by Christine Labban