Tag: collective traumatic experience
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Color, image and symbol: Memory recalling the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait through drawings
Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield Introduction In 2004 I was hired by Kuwait University to teach at its College for Women in the Middle East state of Kuwait. In addition to teaching studio arts, I grappled with the idea of how a shared traumatic event might affect the development of Kuwaiti youth who had experienced the invasion as…