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Two men and a woman of Middle Easter appearance read in Arabic from Christie’s ‘They Came to Baghdad’, while the British filmmake interferes and manipulates them. The possibility of a different interaction emerges in the readers’ expressions, in this uncomfortable yet humorous film, amde with members of Birmingham’s Kurdish community (who support this submission). It reflects the artist’s struggle to understand the Iraq war and to explore the minutiae of popular culture which accrete to form our view of ‘others’ as ‘not like us’, through her favourite detective fiction- popular in Iraq and allegedly much requested by prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.