n 1991, when Susan Meiselas met displaced Kurdish families in Iraq, she found herself gravitating to their home villages, which had been destroyed by Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign. She began to ask, How do you picture a history you didn’t live through yourself? The collaborative archive that emerged from Kurdistan had its roots in an unlikely place and era in Meiselas’s life—the American
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Jun 08, 2021
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