Resilience of Al-Mutanabbi Street

Description:

On March 5th, 2007 a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls ... Now the al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is issuing a call for book artists to work on a project to "re-assemble" some of the "inventory" of the reading material that was lost in the car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street.

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,  Miniature books,  Miscellanea,  Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition,  Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Kant, Immanuel)

People: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Places: Iraq,  Baghdad,  Belgium,  Baghdad (Iraq)

Times: 21st century