Thief of Baghdad

'Thief of Baghdad', an exhibition comprising of a series of film posters, press clippings and photographs from the extensive collection of Abboudi Abou Jaoudé, which spans more than half a century.

The exhibition invites the audience to explore the vibrant aesthetics of posters produced in the West between the 1910s and the 1990s, as well as the perception of Arabs in Western cinema through films such as 'A Thousand and One Nights', 'Sinbad', 'Cleopatra', 'Aladdin', 'Scheherazade' to name a few.

'Thief of Baghdad' is curated by Abboudi Abou Jaoudé and will be exhibited at Dar El-Nimer between February 20th and May 25th, 2019.