{"id":7044,"date":"2015-03-30T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2015-03-30T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:07:06","slug":"al-mutanabi-street-baghdads-book-row-gets-its-first-female-bookseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/al-mutanabi-street-baghdads-book-row-gets-its-first-female-bookseller\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Mutanabi street, Baghdad\u2019s book row, gets its first female bookseller"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Baghdad<\/a>

Baghdad book row’s first women bookseller, 22-year old Ruqaya Fawziya.<\/p><\/div>\n

Al-Mutanabi Street is the historic center of the book universe in\u00a0Iraq\u2019s capital city of Baghdad. It is a street lined with booksellers and has served as the intellectual and literary hub of the city since the 8th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now it has its first women bookseller,\u00a022-year old Ruqaya Fawziya.\u00a0 <\/span>She says:<\/p>\n

In the beginning not only my family, anyone I would speak to about my idea to sell books at Al-Mutanabi Street, would oppose the idea, describing it as strange, and advising me not to do it, but later, when they saw me entering this world, they started encouraging me\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t face any harassment from the people who visit Al-Mutanabi Street, but sometimes people look at me with a surprise look on their faces because they are not familiar with the sight of a woman selling books on the street. But there are many people who, on the contrary, encourage me<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Read more of the online Book Patrol article, Al-Mutanabi street, Baghdad\u2019s book row, gets its first female bookseller.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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