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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5th, 2007, Bombing of Baghdad's Street of the Booksellers

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5th, 2007, Bombing of Baghdad's Street of the Booksellers

Beausoleil, Beau
Shehabi, Deema

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Fiction AnthologiesPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1604865903
ISBN13: 9781604865905
Publisher: PM Press
Published: Aug 20 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad--the historic center of Baghdad bookselling--wounding more than 100 people and killing more than 30. This anthology begins with a historical introduction to al-Mutanabbi Street and includes the writing of Iraqis as well as a wide swath of international poets and writers who were outraged by this attack. Exploring the question Where does al-Mutanabbi Street start?, the book looks at both communities and nations, seeking to show the commonality between a small street in Baghdad and other individual cultural centers and explain why this attack was an attack on us all. Chapters examine al-Mutanabbi Street as a place for the free exchange of ideas, a place that has long offered its sanctuary to the complete spectrum of Iraqi voices, and a place where the roots of democracy took hold many hundreds of years ago.

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