Iraqi fashion designer seeks to revive ancient Mesopotamian clothing

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Iraqi fashion designer seeks to revive ancient Mesopotamian clothing

STORY: Iraqi fashion designer seeks to revive ancient Mesopotamian clothing DATELINE: Dec. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: ERBIL, Iraq CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iraqi fashion designer Steve Al-Sati working in his workshop in Erbil 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): STEVE AL-SATI, Iraqi fashion designer 3. various of Iraqi fashion designer Steve Al-Sati working in his workshop in Erbil 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): STEVE AL-SATI, Iraqi fashion designer 5. various of Steve Al-Sati's works STORYLINE: Steve Al-Sati, a young Iraqi fashion designer, seeks to revive the traditional costumes and clothes worn by the people of ancient Mesopotamia by making them by hand. Clothes, accessories, and fabrics embroidered with inscriptions and drawings dating back to the Babylonian and Assyrian eras, and traditional Chaldean costumes, were until the recent past, part of the daily life of Iraqi Christians in the Kurdistan region, Mosul, Kirkuk, and Baghdad. But today, they have become very few because of Western fashi

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