there is a meandering alley named after the Iraqi poet Al Mutanabbi. The poet's street branches away from Al Rasheed and heads down through a tissue of dilapidated buildings with thin columns that ...

“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 ...

Baghdad, Iraq – Haj Mohammed al-Khashali has outlived four sons and one grandson, killed together when a car bomb tore through Mutanabbi Street in 2007. Sixteen years later, and 20 years after ...

Al-Mutanabbi Street was first inaugurated in 1932 by King Faisal I and named after the celebrated 10th century poet Abul Tayeb al-Mutanabbi, who was born under the Abbasid dynasty in what would ...

Before the bomb, Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad appeared to be made of books: they littered the sidewalks, waved from tables and carts, sat on shelves inside bookstores, and peeped at passersby ...

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 ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 5th May, 2025 (WAM) -- On the ninth day of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), a session titled Al Mutanabbi’s Inventions explored the enduring legacy of the celebrated ...

The ground-breaking new play of the renowned Lebanese artist Mansour Al Rahbani, Al Mutanabbi, will soon be featured in Dubai where preparations are being currently made to construct a huge theate ...

She spoke during a visit to Al-Mutanabbi Street, which has long drawn bibliophiles and is named after the celebrated 10th-century poet Abul Tayeb al-Mutanabbi. The mission of Azoulay, a former culture ...