{"id":556,"date":"2026-10-22T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/?page_id=556"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:24:24","slug":"al-mutanabbi-street-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/al-mutanabbi-street-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Mutanabbi Street Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/Memorykerm1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Open book with accordion pages going out on the four sides with illustrations and writing.\" title=\"Memorykerm1-1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/resiliencekerm1.jpg\" alt=\"Small brown envelope with folded out accordion book below.\" title=\"resiliencekerm1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/futurekerm1.jpg\" alt=\"Open book with yellow page on the left and smaller books on the right that spell out &quot;Mutanabbi.&quot;\" title=\"futurekerm1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tAl-Mutanabbi Street Series\t<\/h2>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tby Christine Kermaire \t<\/h3>\n\t<p>On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. The bomb resulted in the death of 30 people and more than 100 people were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street was a historic center of Baghdad bookselling, hold bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It was the intellectual heart and soul of Baghdad. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project called on artists to complete three books that reflect both the strength and fragility of books, as well as the endurance of the ideas they carry.<\/p>\n<p>Kermaire created three miniature books about the Al-Mutanabbi Street explosion. They are titled, Resilience of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2011), Memory of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012), and Future of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012). Resilience of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2011) is a 9 cm tall accordion fold book with red fragments of an Arabic translation from Kant&#8217;s Critique of pure reason pasted to gray paper. It is stitched in red silk thread, with trailing ends. The book cover is a hand-made balsa wood case. Memory of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012) is a 9cm tall book with four strips of paper folded like an accordion. Each strip of paper unfolds to reveal the names of victims who died in the bombing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Future of Al-Mutanabbi Street <\/em>(2012) is the last book in the series and its height is 9 cm. This book opens to reveal nine miniature books attached to the book. Each small book contains the same quote: &#8220;I whose literature the blind perceived and and whose words those who are deaf heard.&#8221; Together, the three books create a book series that commemorated the 2007 car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Although the series consists of three miniature books, they are packed with emotion and a message about the loss of life, literature, and culture lost in the bombing.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/exhibits.truman.edu\/artistbooks\/home\/\" target=\"_self\">Back to List<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Mutanabbi Street Series by Christine Kermaire On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. The bomb resulted in the death of 30 people and more than 100 people were wounded. 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