{"id":186,"date":"2014-10-29T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/?p=186"},"modified":"2017-12-22T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T02:03:05","slug":"al-mutanabbi-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Al Mutanabbi Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ex Libris\u2014In Absentia<\/em>, a hard ground etching on copper was created in response to a call to printmakers from around the world to engage with and explore the implications of the destruction of Bagdad\u2019s intellectual and bookselling district on Al Mutanabbi Street by a car bomb in 2007. The Al Mutanabbi Street Project seeks to draw attention not only to the attack in Bagdad, but through the idea of \u201cAl Mutanabbi Street starts here\u201d to raise awareness of the connections between Bagdad and the threat to culture (artistic and literary thought and exchange of ideas) in the face of the potential for intolerance and violence on our own street.<\/p>\n<p>Woland famously remarked in Bulgakov\u2019s \u201cThe Master and Margarita\u201d that \u201cManuscripts don\u2019t burn\u201d, meaning\u2026what, exactly? Of course, they do burn, and so do people, as evidenced by this project, but perhaps it is the sense that ideas don\u2019t burn that makes this such a powerful statement. In which case, where do they go, when so emphatically rejected by the arbitrary and malevolent forces of \u201cthe real world\u201d? \u00a0Is there some sort of continuum, a \u201cspace behind the curtain\u201d so to speak that allows minds to connect and reconnect with the essence of burned manuscripts? These are some of the questions that came to mind in the process of exploration engendered by this project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1-768x385.jpg 768w, http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1-1024x513.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ex-Libris-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex Libris&#8211;In Absentia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex Libris\u2014In Absentia, a hard ground etching on copper was created in response to a call to printmakers from around the world to engage with and explore the implications of the destruction of Bagdad\u2019s intellectual and bookselling district on Al Mutanabbi Street by a car bomb in 2007. The Al Mutanabbi Street Project seeks to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/?p=186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Al Mutanabbi Street&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,10,13,27,30],"tags":[39,51,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidavery.net\/apropos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}