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BAGHDAD, Iraq β Two days into the new school year, the fourth graders, nicely turned out in white shirts and gray trousers and jumpers, sat attentively at their desks for geography class. Several hands shot up, and Nasahah pointed to a girl in the first row. And the oil. What else? Summer vacation was over and there was fresh material for the new term.
In a drawing class, the teacher laid out the latest project for a visiting reporter, collages and crayon drawings depicting the justice of the Iraqi cause and the sins of its enemies. Bashar Sabar, a talented year-old, covered both aspects of the project. His second offering was a cartoon of a lumpy Saudi King Fahd pointing the way to Mecca to an American soldier riding an elephant.
Why an elephant? The propaganda exercise was clearly a popular assignment. Every drawing bore a sense of enthusiasm. Even the Iraqi baby being denied a glass of milk had a smile on its face. No one drew bombs falling on Baghdad. In the classrooms, giggling girls passed notes on folded scraps of paper.
It could have been a primary school in any Western country except for the message. A final message was stuck into a potted rose outside the school entrance. The forecourt is filled with student sculptures, some of them copies of classical statuary and others whimsical. Jabbar Obaidi, chairman of the audiovisual department who holds a communications Ph.
But he pointed out that Iraqi nationalism is a recurrent theme in student works. But within the universities and in the cultural world outside, Iraqi artists are affected by change in their own society. The audiovisual students have put together a video on another problem in Iraq, a country of heavy smokers. The anti-smoking spot shows a man puffing on a cigarette while rising from a flip-top cigarette package. He then descends into the package, still puffing. But the next thing viewers see is a skeleton rising from that package with a cigarette butt between its teeth.