Feature: Rising from ashes of conflict, Iraqi artists struggle for brighter future

Iraqi artist Zaid al-Ani speaks at his gallery under the name of "Imagine" at a hall in the French Institute in Baghdad, Iraq, April 20, 2019. Al-Ani presented a collection of paintings of geometric forms drawn in black and white, in which he utilized the human shape in a way that looks like an engrave of a Sumerian cylinder seal. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)