Iraqi peace song

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.

"Laurie Alpert is a printmaker and book artist from Brookline, Massachusetts. She has her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her MFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art. She is a Professor in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. Alpert's professional affiliations include membership at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston's South End and EES Arts, a professional printmaking cooperative in Hyde Park. She is also a member of Boston Printmakers, the Monotype Guild of New England, and the New York Center for Book Arts"--Centre for Fine Print Research website.