Broadside>>Books • Iraq
On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on Baghdad’s Al-Mutanabbi Street, the city’s historic literary district—home to booksellers, printers and cafes. On reading about the incident, Beau Beausoleil, a San Francisco-based poet and bookseller, felt an immediate connection: “I knew that if I was an Iraqi that’s exactly where my store would be...” He felt compelled to let “people in the West know that they shared this commonality with Al-Mutanabbi Street”.
It started with a call to letterpress printers to create broadsides, or posters. Seven years on, the project has gathered a collection of more than 133 broadsides, surpassing the original target of 130.
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