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This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.
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Violence, Pictorial works, Booksellers and bookselling, Bombings, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Protest movements, Books and reading in art, Intellectual life, Social conditions, Censorship, In art, War and civilization, Vehicle bombs, Terrorism in art, Visual literature, Specimens, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street CoalitionPeople
Noëlle Griffiths (1959-)Places
Iraq, Baghdad, Shāriʻ al-Mutanabbī (Baghdad, Iraq), WalesTimes
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Artist's book.
"The fictional character of Zariya writes notes to Bashir between 2002 and 2007 asking him to buy specific books and magazines from al-Mutanabbi street, creating an insight into the thoughts of a woman who has lived through the social and political changes of Baghdad."--University of West of England, Centre for Fine Print website.
" ... photographs and text digitally printed using archival ink on 175gsm Somerset Book paper."--University of West of England, Centre for Fine Print website.
Limited edition of 6 signed and numberd copies.
Published in association with "An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street."
Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.
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