Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

On view in the Open Book atrium is Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, a collection of letterpress-printed broadsides, artists’ books, and prints created by a coalition of international artists and writers expressing solidarity with Iraqi booksellers, writers, and readers following the car bomb attack on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad in 2007, promoting awareness of the power of the written word and arts in support of the free expression of ideas and the preservation of cultural spaces.

GALLERY HOURS
 March 1- June 1
 9 am to 9 pm Tuesday -Friday
 9 am to 5 pm Saturday & Monday
 Closed Sundays.

Special Event Sun Mar 12th 7:30PM
We Are Clouds, an evening of poems and creative dialogue also hosted by the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project at Open Book 


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