The Tigris, unbound

This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content. "As the Tigris has flowed through millennia, tendering a life source to our constant desire for our own humanity. The language of continual dialogue becomes our only recourse when the humane narrative is brutalised. Unbound, the pages and stitches of these three books depict the wounds, separation and loss caused by this act but offer the possibility of discourse across borders and understanding"--Artist's statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.