That day on Al Mutanabbi Street
By: Barbara Fox
Contributors: Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition; Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists' Books Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Barbara Fox
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Violence; Pictorial works; Booksellers and bookselling; Bombings; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Protest movements; Books and reading in art; Intellectual life; Social conditions; Censorship; Terrorism in art; In art; War and civilization; Vehicle bombs; Visual literature; Specimens; Artists' books; Pop-up books; Poetry; Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Description: 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.
Notes: Parallel title in Arabic.

Collection of digital images and poetry by the artist on the bombing that occurred on Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad. This street "has been described as the cultural and intellectual center of Iraq. Bookstores, cafes and outdoor book stalls line the street. On March 5, 2007 a bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street killing 30 and wounding 100." (Deborah Stampler, Huffington Post, 3/5/2012.).

Consists of six pages containing digital images, with smaller pop-up pages in between those pages. The pop-up pages have the poetry text in English on the left side and Arabic on the right side, allowing the book to be read from left to right for the English text, and right to left for the Arabic text.

Issued in an edition of ten copies.

"The English font is Lithos Pro, the Arabic font is Baghdad."--Colophon.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.

Text in English and in Arabic.

Bound in coated handmade paper over board; paper is red and cream in color, and resembles a brick wall. Title labels are on the two covers (one label in English, one in Arabic.).