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5th March 2020: New bookmarks from Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Catherine Cartwright and MAMDP students and alumni at the University of the West of England, to marker the thirteenth ceremony of the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street. Run across them here.

I had the privilege of participating in a dejeuner-fourth dimension reading at the University of the Westward of England on Thursday 8th March. This included a tabletop exhibition of books, broadsides and prints made for the project. It was good to see old friends (both people and printed works), and to run across new ones. Julie Bruck'southward poem always makes me shed a tear.

Julie Bruck poem

Books on the table

11th Anniversary Readings For Al-Mutanabbi Street, On Or About March fifth 2018 (Details will be added equally I receive them)

Our project, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, extends a paw in friendship and solidarity to the Iraqi people who have endured so much. We are poets, writers, and artists who volition never plow our back on Iraq and their cultural communities. We are 600 cultural arts workers from xx countries who hold the spirit and values of al-Mutanabbi Street close to our hearts.

We dedicate our readings this year to Mohammed al-Khashali, the owner of the Shabandar Cafe on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq. He is a man of neat compassion and cognition, a man who has used his own personal grief to nurture the ideas of truth and reconciliation, of forgiving simply never forgetting.

It is a great award to accept one of our readings for al-Mutanabbi Street at his cafe this year.

And a great honor to piece of work with our practiced friend, the Iraqi poet/activist, Amal Al-Jubouri, the Managing director of the Soutuna Project, who has brought the ideas of this project back to the land and people that inspired it; Iraq and its cultural communities.

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No one can always deny that we are sisters and brothers in this effort.

In Solidarity,
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one. In Baghdad, Iraq – At the historic Shabandar Cafe on Al-Mutanabbi street – Coordinated by the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna projection

ii. In Mosul, Iraq – Coordinated by the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna project

3. In Steamboat Springs, Colorado, (USA) – The Artist/Activist Janet Bradley Will Coordinate an evening of verse and motion-picture show on Mon March 5th at the Bud Werner Memorial Library at 6.30pm.

4. A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street, Sunday, March 5th 2018 at 7pm at All-time Video Film and Cultural Center 1842 Whitney Ave. Hamden, Connecticut, 06517. On the anniversary of the 2007 bombing of the booksellers' market in Baghdad, and in defiance of the ongoing attacks throughout the world against reading and readers, excerpts from the anthology Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here will exist read by Daisy Abreu and Stephen Vincent Kobasa.

5. In San Francisco, California (USA)- 2 readings on March 5th: one at Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 7-9pm, coordinated by Eric Whittington, bookstore owner and activist. The other will exist from six-8pm at the Fort Mason Chapel in conjunction with the Sanctuary exhibit there. Cheers get to Jackie Von Traskow, director of the For-Site Foundation, for making this possible. The poets Tamsim Smith and Gary Gach will also exist part of this reading.

6. In Bristol, Uk – At UWE, Bristol creative person/educator/activist Sarah Bodman and artist/activist Catherine Cartwright will coordinate a reading event, 12.30 on 8th March at Portakabin ane, Bower Ashton campus. See affiche below.

seven. In Beaverton, Oregon – At the Beaverton City Library – Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Hither! A bilingual poetry reading organized by Baher Butti and Tom Hogan

8. In Portland, Oregon (USA) – Coordinated past Baher Butti and Tom Hogan

9. In Dearborn, Michigan (The states), a reading on March 18 at the Arab American National Museum presented by The Mesopotamian Forum for Art and Culture. This reading will be in Arabic and English language and is co-ordinated by Dunya Mikhail and Alise Alousi.

10. In Craigieburn, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, at the Averroes Center of Arab Civilisation, a reading coordinated by the writer/activist Yousef Alreemawi

xi. In Dublin, Ireland – At Books Upstairs, the famous independent literary bookshop. Sunday March 4th at 3pm. Co-ordinated past writers Evelyn Conlon and Sean O'Reilly.
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12. In St-Jerome, Quebec (Canada) on March 21st 12=2pm. Coordinated by the Educator/Activist Elyse Dupras. See poster beneath.

13. In San Francisco, California (U.s.a.) – A reading at the Sanctuary Exhibit in the Fort Stonemason Chapel, coordinated past the FOR-SITE Foundation, a non-profit public art organization dedicated to the creation, understanding, and presentation of art near place.

14. In Venice, Italy, a reading at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, coordinated by Roberta Feoli Artist/Activist and Printshop and studio managing director at Scuola.

15. A reading at the Academy of Gloucestershire (U.Grand.). 4.15pm. Tuesday six March at The Drawing Studio, FCH Campus, HC302, Cheltenham GL50 4AZ. Coordinated by the printer/educator/activist Andrew Morrison. See poster below.

16. In Cairo, Egypt – Monday March fifth at 1pm. A reading at The American Academy in Cairo (AUC) coordinated by the educator, Philip Croom and Heba Sheta. See poster below.

17. A reading in New York City, on April 4th, with Arab American writers at the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

18. In Tacoma, Washington (USA) The grouping Puget Sound Book Artists is doing a Salon at Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound – March iv, 2018 on Artists Books and Social Justice including Poesy from our album Al-Mutanabhi Street Starts Here.'

19, In Washington, D.C. – A reading coordinated by artists, poets, and educators – Casey Smith, Helen Frederick, and Nikki Brugnoli at Upshur Street Books

twenty. A reading in Tikrit, Iraq will exist held by its youth group: Tikrit Voluntary Youth Council, in cooperation with the poet/activist Amal Al-Jubouri and her Soutuna project

21. In Fairfax, Virginia -ARTISTS & POETS -Liberty of Expression – Freedom of the Press In solidarity with " Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here!"Feb 25th – April1st 2018, Epicure Cafe, 11104 Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA 22030. Organized by the artist/activist, Nasrin Navab. Reading and Reception Saturday March 17 2018 4-six pm

22. In Paris, France, Tuesday 6th March at 7pm – A reading organized past the writer/activist Adina Rulu. See affiche beneath.

23. In Palo Alto, California – A reading organized by the poet/activist, Esther Kamkar.

24. In Northampton, Massachusetts – A reading at Broadside Bookshop, Inc. 247 Main Street, on Tuesday March 6, – Organized by the writer/activist, Claudia Lefko. See poster below.

25. At Ashoka University, just exterior New Delhi, Bharat. Organized by the author/educator/activist, Aditi Sriram.

In Al-Amarah, Iraq – A reading coordinated by the Tabani (empowering) group for youth in Misan Governorate in the south of Iraq the metropolis of the world heritage (The Iraqi marshes.)
In Al-Najaaf, Iraq – A reading organized by the Moja Youth team.
In Kirkuk, Iraq – A reading is being organized past the National Foundation for Multifariousness, through the efforts of Dr. Ahmed Hussien Ali Kataw, the chairperson of this NGO.

Beau writes, 5th March 2018:

The poet/activist, Amal Al-Jubouri has written me that 4 more than cities in Iraq have joined usa with readings: Babel (well-nigh the archeological site), in Falluja, in Al-Ramadi, and in Rut (Anbar) coordinated by the youth group Shaqoufyan.

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