Farideh Sakhaeifar

Halabja, 1988 (2018) is about the chemical attack Saddam -- with support from his western allies-- carried out against the Kurds of Halabja of Iraqi Kurdistan. Saddam committed the genocide in the closing year of the eight years war between Iraq - Iran in which Iraq invaded parts of Iran. As a result of the attack, 3,200 to 5,000 lives perished and 7,000 to 10,000 were gravely injured. To this date, the chemical attack on Halabja remains the largest case of using chemical weapons against civilians. This piece is a poetic interpretation created from the collective narratives of the attack survivors.