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Baghdad, Iraq

Contributors: Naseer Hassan, Sadek Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Gulala Nouri

Baghdad, Iraq

« There you are returning to her once more. You never knew how many times you left and how many times you said you would never go back to her. » —Sadek Mohammah, Archaeology of Scorched Cities

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Vendor at Suq Haraj, or the Market of Confusion media_image	Qishla Tower media_image	Poems مثلما خدعنا العالم كله ستخلعينَ قبعة البيسبول مثل العادة وتبحثينَ عن زاويتك المفضلة في مقهى ماريو. وستنظرينَ في المرآةِ... media_text
No Paradise outside the Window He is busy with his scattered papers. The muzzle of the old pistol is looking at him in provocation. Poetry is the noblest thing in language, and the whiteness of the papers is death. They... media_text	Poems from Dayplaces Story of (that) time Story of that time; like tyrants who gargle in the depth ; in the (wood’s quiet) we were, night was in us; maybe we were stars, maybe we carried our clothes to where the river enters.... media_text	Gender and Creativity in Iraq Literature is directly linked to culture, and in Iraq, women are just coming to the field. There are reasons for this, especially how men think about writing and how they think about women as human beings.... media_text
Arts inside the Qishla Fortress media_image	Mobile Libraries of Baghdad media_image	Stone Mummy She is the remains of sails fought over by cats from the tattered ends of tribes. Her bleak mast dreams of pirates that will force out her... media_text
Orange Lies: I Baby… I mean -- Dear… I mean, Hello! Yes, hello – this is more appropriate. I hope you won’t be very sorry—given all that you’ve inflicted upon me—that I abandoned you. It wasn’t true that I... media_text	Leather Engraving close-up media_image	A Negative To those days--bombing monuments… When the soul talked for long to the roar of the truth… 1 Procreation of light enlightens a hazy picture of fossilized memory and of panicked horrors of an effaced... media_text

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