At the Dome of the Rock | Deema Shehabi

Written by Deema Shehabi
Limited edition Letterpress print 
2 color
handmade paper and hand gold ink of dome artwork

This broadside was part of the Al Mutanabi Street Starts Here Exhibition in 2007

About the Project First Exhibited at San Francisco Center for the Book:

"Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here" is a global project featuring an exhibition of artists' books and prints that commemorates the 2007 car bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad's historic center for books and intellectual life. The project, created by the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, involves artists and writers from around the world creating works of art to express solidarity with the people of Iraq. Annual events and exhibitions have been held in various cities to honor the memory of the street and promote peace and justice through art and poetry. 

About the Poet:

Deema K. Shehabi is a poet, writer, and editor. She grew up in the Arab world and attended college in the US, where she received an MS in journalism. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, New Letters, Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, Perihelion, Drunken Boat, Bat City Review, Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, and The Poetry of Arab Women. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart prize three times, and she served as Vice-President for the Radius of Arab-American Writers (RAWI) between 2007 and 2010. She currently resides in Northern California with her husband and two sons.