Articles by Ellie Violet Bramley

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Literary Project Honours Baghdad’s Devastated Bookselling District
Ellie Violet Bramley – The Guardian, 27 Jan 2014

Hundreds of writers and artists prepare tributes to Iraq’s historic books hub, Al-Mutanabbi Street, hit by car bomb in 2007. 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.

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