Title: Al-Mutanabbi Street
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.

"What happened on Al-Mutanabbi Street is like an old wound for me. It makes me recall what happened in Iran 30 years ago, and again once more in recent years Iranian people demonstrating and struggling for the right to vote for democracy. What happened on Al-Mutanabbi Street keeps happening in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. My first book depicts a collection of photographs of the Iranian green movement for reform, with pictures from Neda and Sohrab, who were unjustly killed during these demonstrations. The second book starts with the words: 'Broken, broken, broken, ' and wants to show how normal people's lives, loves, dreams are shattered and destroyed when a war breaks out"--The Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.
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, Cultural property, Destruction and pillage, Identity (Psychology) in art, Memory in art, Loss (Psychology) in art, War in art, Social movements in art, Artists' books
Places: Iraq, Baghdad, Iran, Great Britain
People: Batool Showghi
Time periods: 21st century