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Susan Meiselas: In History

October 16, 2008


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Arbil Taymour Abdullah, 15, the only survivor of mass execution, shows his wound, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, Photographs of 20-year-old Kamaran Abdullah Saber are held by his family at Saiwan Hill cemetery. Sandinistas at the walls of the Esteli National Guard headquarters, Esteli, Nicaragua, 1979 Memorial site for the Barzan tribe members who were disappeared and executed during the Anfal campaign, Barzan region, Northern Iraq, 2007 Villagers watch exhumation at a former Iraqi military headquarters outside of Sulimaniyah, 1991, from the series Kurdistan, 1991–present. Page spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), showing Qala Diza 1991 in comparison to Qala Diza 2007, Kurdistan, November 2007 Returning home, Masaya, Nicaragua, September 1978 Teen Dream, Woodstock, VT, 1973, from the series Carnival Strippers, 1972–75
Credit: (Susan Meiselas/Magnum)

Photographs of 20-year-old Kamaran Abdullah Saber are held by his family at Saiwan Hill cemetery.

He was killed in July 1991 during a student demonstration against Saddam Hussein, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, 1991


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