Almost 1,100 years after the birth of the poet for whom it is named, Baghdad’s historic Al Mutanabbi Street was reduced to rubble by a car bomb that killed more than 30 people. Other casualties of ...

Syrian actress Mona Wasef has agreed to participate in the first common Syrian-Iraqi TV series al Mutanabbi which depicts the life history of the renowned poet Abu al Tayyeb al Mutanabbi, according to ...

“Give me verse like that, give me a poet like Abu Tayeb al-Mutanabbi, and I’ll go with you to the ends of the earth.” —Character in Elias Khoury’s “As Though She Were Sleeping” “As Though She Were ...

Al-Mutanabbi Street was the thousand-year-old heart of the bookselling and cultural life of Baghdad until a car bomb destroyed it in 2007. You won’t see it on any street sign. But Chapel Street has ...

The Smithsonian Libraries will open “Come Together: American Artists Respond to Al-Mutanabbi Street,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery Library Feb. 1. “Come ...

It's said that when Baghdad was sacked by the Mongols in 1258, the river Tigris ran red one day with the blood of those killed, and black the next with the ink of their books. On 5 March 2007, many of ...

And love turned to ashes in the roads. — Hamid Mokhtar, “The Rabble” Near the old Jewish quarter of Baghdad, at Al Rasheed Street, there is a meandering alley named after the Iraqi poet Al Mutanabbi.

ON March 5th 2007, at the bloody midpoint of the Iraq war, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. The attack tore through the heart of the city’s historic literary district, a block ...

Last Friday the historical and musical epic Abu al Tayyeb al Mutanabbi, kicked off in Jordan on the huge outdoor theater purposely erected for the play at the Baccalaureate International School. This ...

Street named after Arab world’s greatest-ever poet signals a change for the better Located near the old quarter of Baghdad, Al-Mutanabbi Street was Baghdad's first book traders' market Ador Bustamante ...