For Dazed MENA Issue 06, photographer Nick Sethi and stylist Peghah Maleknejad, collaborated on a cover story. Drawing from both Iranian and Kurdish female lead dance practices as archival material, recentring the body as a narrator of history and how movement preserves culture across generations.
Model, researcher and archivist Valentine Valero joins artist-archivist Êvar Huseynî , founder of the West Asian & North African Women’s Art Library; they discuss colonial institutions, women as the custodians of memory, and the internet’s role in cultural erasure. View the full story on Dazed MENA.
