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Every land is Karbala: in Shiite posters, a fever dream for Iraq.

Publication: Harper's Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Every land is Karbala: in Shiite posters, a fever dream for Iraq.(ANNOTATION)

Article Excerpt
Banned under Saddam Hussein, public displays of Shiite Islam are now resplendent in central and southern Iraq. Images of the sect's defining religious event, the seventh-century Battle of Karbala, and its holiest imams appear on everything from key chains to T-shirts to posters like the ones shown here, which are plastered over walls, storefronts, and roadside signs. Fantastical and brilliantly hued, the posters offer a glimpse inside the psyche of the country's ascendant Shiite majority. In these lurid and chivalric iconographies can be seen a vision of Iraq suffused in a sainted mythology of suffering and carnage--a vision, perhaps, of Iraq's future.

Shiism's central drama, a battle at Karbala in 680 A.D. over the leadership of Islam, is a tale of martyrdom and dispossession. Abandoned by the people of Kufa, Hussein, the son of the...

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