DEQ · Atlas
Tattoo Names and Locationsمواضع وأسماء الوشم في الجسد
Thirty traditional Iraqi tattoos, each with its own name and its own place on the body. Choose a part of the body to see what was tattooed there, and why.
30 tattoos7 parts of the bodyVisible & hidden22 min to read in full
Research & textAmmar M. Al-TaeeIllustrationsThualfaqar HatemPhotographsWisam MutwakTranslationDina Alsafi
Creditsفريق العمل
DEQ is the result of a ten-month field research project, “The Traditional Tattoos of Babylon, Iraq: Documenting and Preserving a Threatened Heritage”, led by The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII) and funded by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund.
- Researcher and main investigator
- Ammar M. Al-Taee
- Artist
- Thualfaqar Hatem
- Translator
- Dina Alsafi
- Photographers
- Wisam Mutwak
Abbas Raad - Field team
- Angham Salim
Karar Hussain
Mohammed Ayad
Shams Hussain
Zahra Al-Saddam - Project manager
- Lanah Haddad
- Consultant
- Caroline Sandler
- Lead organisation
- The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII)
- Editor in chief
- Aymen Al-Ameri
- Creative director & design
- Meena Alyassin
- Publisher
- Henna Magazine
Photograph · Wisam Mutwak