The Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB), with the support of AUB’s Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies, hosted a public conversation with the artist Dia al-Azzawi (born in Baghdad, 1939). The conversation was organized on the occasion of the opening of Azzawi’s show “False Witnesses” at Saleh Barakat Gallery. He was joined by three interlocutors: Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Bristol Zeina Maasri; Regents Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas Nada ...