Highlights of a conversation between writer Malu Halasa with curator Rose Issa at the National Portrait Gallery December 2011. “Documentary portrayals of reality can threaten the preferred narratives of authoritarian religious regimes [...] and can also thwart Western misconceptions.”  From the pamphlet by Malu Halasa Alternative Histories especially for the Chasing Mirrors season of which this discussion was part.

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