Series III: Writings
III.A. Rafa Nasiri's Journals
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and hand-illustrated diaries by Rafa Nasiri, created within bound journals and sketchbooks throughout his life, spanning 1976 to 2013. These feature sketches alongside observations of daily life, activities, and art events he attended. The almost daily entries were not separate from the art and ideas that were translated as drawings in the same cherished notebooks. They offer insight into the inner worlds of the artist, including his experiences of travels and war events. Nasiri recorded details about meetings with fellow artists and intellectuals in Baghdad, Asilah, Irbid, Amman, Beirut, and in Italy, Spain, the UAE, and other countries, students and teachers he worked with at Yarmouk University and the University of Bahrain, the routes he commuted on, his feelings towards personal and professional engagements, sketches of artifacts he saw in collections, his opinions on the quality of the lectures he attended and their audiences, and more.
1. Paris, 1976
2. Untitled, 1981–1982
3. Erbil, Baghdad, Asilah,1984–1986
4. Baghdad, 1980-1987, and 1990–1991
5. Baghdad and Rome, 1988
6. Morocco, August 1990
7. Amman and Irbid, 1992–1993
8. Irbid, Jordan, 1993
9. Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, 2000–2001
10. Bahrain, 2000
11. Bahrain, 2002
12. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, and Lisbon, 2008
13. Beirut, 2010
14. Baghdad and Amman, 2010
15. Istanbul, 2011
16. Jabal al Weibdeh, Amman, 2011
17. Baghdad, Cordoba, and Amman, 2011
18. Jabal al Weibdeh 1, Amman, 2012
19. Jabal al Weibdeh 2, Amman, 2012
20. Studio Nasiri, Amman, 2013
III.B. Rafa Nasiri's Writings
Scope and Contents
Lectures, texts and notes authored in Arabic by Rafa Nasiri on topics related to contemporary Arab and Iraqi art, graphic art practices, and inspirations for his work, as well as artist statements. Includes versions of texts titled "[Contemporary Arab Graphic Art,]" one of which was presented in a roundtable discussion in Bahrain in 2001, and "[Resistance through Creativity]" published in Al-Majallah Al-Thaqafiyyah [Cultural Magazine] in 2010.
III.C. May Muzzafar's Writings
Scope and Contents
Writings, reviews and notes by poet and critic May Muzaffar produced in Baghdad, Amman, and Manama starting from the 1970s. Printed materials related to May Muzaffar's participation in cultural events, including the Ninth Poetry Festival (Basra, 1965) and the International Symposium of Visual Poetics, Sharjah, 1997) are also included.
III.D. Writings by Others
Scope and Contents
Includes clipped texts about Nasiri by writers and artists such as Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Jacques Aswad, Farouq Yousef, Adel Kamel, Shaker Hassan Al Said, Ziad Dalloul, Dia al-Azzawi, and Abdel Wahhab al-Bayati, as well as texts on other topics and exhibitions that Nasiri collected, mostly from 1990s and 2000s
