In March 2007 a car-bomb suicide attack destroyed the entire perimeter of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the heart and soul of Baghdad’s intellectual and cultural community for centuries. Responding to this tragedy, artists from all over the world have come to share a sense of solidarity as well as ownership in a project that refuses to let that day, and its significance, ever be forgotten.
www.worldliteraturetoday.com/2012/may/day-lingers-us-still-al-mutanabbi-street-starts-here-persis-m-karim#.ULEsV4W262w
►http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-stambler/al-mutanabbi-street_b_1316997.html
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