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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.

Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker, book artist and installation artist based at Kingsgate Workshops Trust in London, England. She has worked as a financial journalist, jewellery designer/maker, translator and teacher of French, German and art.
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, Papermaking, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, England, London
People: Lucy Baxandall
Time periods: 21st century