Title: Enghelab Avenue
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.

Azadeh Fatehrad is Iranian artist, based in London. Her practice demonstrates gender identity in the theme of desire and resistance. Fatehrad works with photography and video installation; expressing female desire and resistance (as a sign of sexual identification) in response to fundamental transformation between tradition and modernity. She is currently a Ph. D. candidate in Photography at the Royal College of Art London.
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, Streets in art, Artists' books, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Tehran (Iran), England, London, Iran, Tehran
People: Azadeh Fatehrad
Time periods: 21st century