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Description:	Yousef, Saadi (author)Mattawa, Khaled (translator)Vilmain, Suzanne (printer) Letterpress on marbled paper. Edition of 50. This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalitions 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. This was a great way to put my visual voice out into the world. I really appreciate all the connections to Iraqi poets and people involved in producing this project––a great way to collaborate with printers! I designed this broadside to reference details that surround the Al-Mutanabbi Street bombing. The suminagashi marbling of black and orange as the background is a reference to the desert and sandstorms. Upside-down wood blocks make reference to prayer rugs and a page from the Koran. I picked the poem for its simplicity and its use of metaphor and Sufi-like warning. The red ink was printed to resemble blood and black referencing oil.
Origin:	2007
Created By:	Yousef, Saadi; Mattawa, Khaled; Vilmain, Suzanne
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	Counting Coup Press (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/177
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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