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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On the anniversary of the 2007 bombing of the booksellers’ market in Baghdad, and in defiance of the ongoing attacks throughout the world against reading and
readers, excerpts from the anthology <em id="gmail-m_2428676023913001392m_7288337801355691661m_-2866020185337891522m_-5973907664382920693m_7567224308787557767m_-2849623161420899327m_-251049337829540895gmail-m_5493034816098581719m_-4042534070294993428gmail-yiv5037655497yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513893770981_16183"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Al-Mutanabbi Street
Starts Here</span></em> will be read by Daisy C. Abreu and Stephen Vincent Kobasa.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
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<span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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