Title: Shrezade entre el Eufrates y el Tigris
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.

Luz Darriba is a multidisciplinary artist born in 1954 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1969, Darriba moved to Buenos Aires, where she studied Fine Arts, obtaining a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Buenos Aires. Luz Darriba currently lives and works between Brussels and Spain, where she's involved in creating urban interventions.
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, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Belgium, Brussels
People: Luz Darriba (1954-)
Time periods: 21st century