A stitched collage artwork stretching 5km pays homage to abused Iraq Kurd women


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Cars pass beneath an artwork by Iraqi visual artist Tara Abdallah, hanging above a highway in the city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region. Photo: AFP

Along a five-kilometre (three-mile) stretch of road in Sulaimaniyah, an Iraqi Kurdish artist recently unveiled a stitched collage of clothes from women survivors of domestic violence.

"Three months ago, I started collecting the clothes of women subjected to violence by their husbands and families throughout the region," said Tara Abdallah, who stitched the artwork that has been strung up across the city.

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