The Corpse WasherYoung Jawad, born to a traditional Shiite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptorto celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdads Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his fathers wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Saddam Husseins dictatorship and the economic sanctions