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Artist Nidaa Badwan escaped repression in Gaza. Now she’s taking on Iran.

JL;DR SUMMARY Nidaa Badwan, an artist who escaped repression in Gaza and now lives in Italy, is creating a sculpture inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman killed in Iran during protests over the required wearing of a hijab. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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