Baghdad, February 1991

Description:	Distinguished Hebrew poet, Ronny Someck, was born in Baghdad in 1951; he came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art. Someck has worked with street gangs, and currently teaches literature, and leads creative writing workshops. Author of nine volumes of poetry and a book for children, written with his daughter, Shirly, has been translated into 39 languages. Selections of his poems have appeared in Arabic translations, in French, Catalan, Albanian, Italian, Macedonian, Yiddish, Croatian and English. Someck has been a recipient of the Prime Ministers Award, the Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew Poetry, the Wine Poem Award in Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2005, and the Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry 2006. On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the longstanding heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community for centuries
Origin:	2012
Created By:	Someck, Ronny
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/693
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	artists book art bookworks

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