A series of handwritten Arabic and Kurdish calligraphy of the names of individuals who lost their lives in civil wars in Iraq from 2003 to 2017. The work on paper, placed on lightboxes, is highlighted by the light reflected through fingerprint calligraphy. Fingerprints refer to the first Iraqi elections after the invasion, in which voters dipped their index finger in Ink after voting, a process known as the "Purple Fingers Elections."
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Art Installation 
Ink on Paper
Light Boxes 24 x24 inches 
Photo and Video Ayesha Cheema

Manufactured Democracy Latin Alphabet Vertical
“Manufactured Democracy” (video) 2025, 1:10:38 minutes
The video features a Latin alphabet list of names, age, gender, date, and place of deceased and missing individuals following the Iraq War II. The form was collected from official announcements and media reports by the Iraqi Body Count organization. This list served as the primary reference in creating the project, Manufactured Democracy. The details of the list highlight the disregard and significant oversight of individuals, as well as the multi-layered colonial and cultural oppression that occurs when translating names from Arabic origins to Latin scripts or Kurdish names to Arabic phonetics written in Roman alphabets.