“The People’s Salon, Gaza, 2016,” one of Tamara Abdul Hadi’s many photographs.
October 14, 2024
Photojournalist Tamara Abdul Hadi to present lecture at SIU Carbondale Oct. 24
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Photojournalist and educator Tamara Abdul Hadi, whose work focuses on the historic and contemporary representation of her Iraqi culture in its diversity, will give an artist talk at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Oct. 24.
The free discussion is from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Communications Building Room 1116 and also available via Zoom. The presentation is supported by SIU’s School of Media Arts and the Fine Arts Activity Fee, said Heather M. O’Brien-Takahashi, an assistant professor in cinema and interdisciplinary media in the School of Media Arts. A discussion will follow the presentation.
Abdul Hadi, an Iraqi Canadian, is an artist-in-residence at The University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute. Abdul Hadi’s photographs have been published worldwide, including across the Middle East, Europe and North America in such outlets as Vice, Al Jazeera, Truth in Photography online magazine and the Photography Ethics Centre. In addition to being a photographer, Abdul Hadi has taught in the Middle East and Canada.
Abdul Hadi’s page notes that her “photography and commentary focus on the dispossessed and marginalized, the underside of Orientalist representations, the underground of settler societies, and the underworld of war.”