A Syrian artist Abdalla Al Omari has depicted 10 world leaders such as US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, former US President Barack Obama and others as refugees in a series of paintings on display in Dubai.
The Vulnerability Series which took 19 months to create was inspired by Omari’s own experience with displacement, he currently has a refugee status in Belgium.
“My aim somehow shifted from an expression of anger to a more vivid desire of disarming these figures, (to) picture them outside their positions of power,” Reuters quoted Omari as telling Al Jazeera. These portraits have recieved a positive response and have been noted as a unique perspective on the refugee crisis.