Excerpted from Iraqi Artists in Exile by Maymanah Farhat, Selections magazine, #30, 2015

Further Reading:

• From Baghdad to New York: Reflections on Painting, Jadaliyya 2012
• Athir Shayota and the Restoration of Lost Time (Arabic), Elaph, 2010 
• Featured Artist, Callaloo, vol 32, no. 4, Fall 2009
• Visual Art by Athir Shayota, Mizna, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2007
• In/Visible: Contemporary Arab American Artists, Bidoun, 2005