Explore Iraqi-Minnesotan portrayals of home through images, stories, and artifacts. Photographers Ahmed Alshaikhli and Jaafar Alnabi capture the personalities and passions of Iraqi-Minnesotans and offer an authentic glimpse into their lives. Interview highlights alongside portrait photos illuminate stories from a diverse range of Iraq’s regions, ethnicities, and religions. Together, Alnabi and Alshaikhli examine what home was, is, and can be.
Home of Memories is a traveling exhibition curated by CarryOn Homes (Peng Wu, Shun Jie Yong, Zoe Cinel), and produced as part of Iraqi Voices, a collaborative arts storytelling lab run by Minneapolis nonprofit The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project.
Photo Credit: Jaafar Alnabi, “Hazha Las, Erbil – Woodbury,” digital print, 2020, 24”x30”
Funded in part by the Global Awareness Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation.