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[ltr][You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Baghdad -arac Press -3 September / September: Remember when you have to remind Baghdad Mutanabi or culture of streets, named his second, where the street is considered one of the oldest ancient streets of Baghdad , accompanied byRashid Street.
What distinguishes the street he was untouched despite aging long life , which extends for decades, unlike Rasheed Street , the oldest historically Mutanabi and who have been suffering for a long decades of neglect and clear by successive governments.
Mutanabi Street was renamed from the Arab poet Abu Theallegoryofthecave, despite the multiplicityof names , which was launched on the street , but he settled on Mutanabi, and street culture , especially in the hearts of Iraqis flavor of both the educated classes or even other social classes.
But on Friday , a special place where visitors have witnessed a great street crowded and smells stock of books smelt middle of the street, without forgetting the buildings contained the street from the presses, institutions, publishing houses and even anancient cafe such as "Shahbandar cafe."
And confirms the researcher Zaid Ahmad that "Mutanabi Street is one of the most important centers for the sale of important books and is a meeting place for intellectuals, journalists, writers and even a meeting place for politicians in the recent period ," pointing out that the street was not known to sell books, but was known market Serail next to the street Mutanabi. "
He explained the researcher that "Alrahlat in the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not mention a specialized market forthe sale of books , but the newspaper" Zora "in a numbers issued in 1969, was in its pages Declaration of an auction to sell books to people the deceased where the particular person to sell to those wishing to buy books."
For his part, the owner of Renaissance Abdel Fattah Abdel Rahman Library says, " The year 1956 witnessed know my father at his library in Serail market and They in the same year opened a library in Mutanabi Street, the library and exercised since that year of activity and went prints Iraqi books, and two years later after July revolution in 1958 changed the format and types of books and the type of demand with the spread of Marxist books, and then came after the national books and Baathist ,"noting that " the office an important role in the cultural movement in Iraq. "
In the opinion of the Iraqi artist Sattar al - Saadawi The Street Mutanabi privacy and his patrons from all social classes, whichis the only outlet for local cultured and can be likened to Mutanabi Street market Okaz through offers of artistic activities, whether a play or a movie or even lyrical events , "asserting that her good effect to encourage artists and writers on fair competition by offering Mndzhm, pointing out that the big winner will be the visitor to the Mutanabi Street , which will get avariety of different packages.
Mohamed says Khali owner of the oldest coffee shop in Mutanabi The Street "Shahbandar cafe back its founding to 1917 after it was printing press in the Ottoman period, and in the beginning of the British occupation of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, afterthe formation of the Iraqi government and the public in 1921 , chaired by King Faisal I gained cafe special importance becauseof its proximity from five ministries buildings in the monarchy ".anthy (1)
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