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Artist's 'blank books' project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 | 11:06 PM

Wafaa Bilal will send Kickstarter donors an empty white book and put real book on shelves of University of Baghdad library that was destroyed in war

An Iraqi-American artist is using online crowdfunding and performance art to help return books to the shelves of the University of Baghdad’s library, which burnt down during the Iraq war.

The library of the university’s college of fine arts hosted more than 70,000 titles until looters set fire to the entire collection in 2003. The building has been reconstructed, but very few books were returned.

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