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Leader of the UK Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn addressing the audience at London School of Economics


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Sadiq Khan, Labour’s London Mayoral candidate, Reuters


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Hafed Al-Droubi in his studio in Baghdad in 1952. (Courtesy of Mina Al-Droubi)


My Grandfather, the Baghdadi Artist

My Grandfather, the Baghdadi Artist

Displayed in the British Museum’s Islamic world gallery is a drawing by Hafed Al-Droubi, my grandfather and one of the pioneers of Iraq’s modern art scene. The ink-on-paper sketch, entitled The Goal, depicts four men climbing up a ladder, scrambling to reach the top....