After honing his painting skills as a soldier, an artist finds his voice

In Baghdad, on March 9, 2000, at the age of 22, Samir Khurshid completed his final mandatory portrait of Saddam Hussein for the Iraqi military. He cannot recall exactly how many portraits he painted in all, but the number, he estimates, is in the hundreds.

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