4to. unpaginated, Arabic, French & English text, colour & b/w drawings by Dia Al-Azzawi, sepia colour photographs, square hardback binding in d/w, minimal signs of handling wear to jacket, otherwise copy inside in mint condition, Dar al-Muthallath, Beirut, first edition, 1980.

Synopsis

Poems by Mahmood Darwish, Tahar Ben Jalloun and Yusuf Sayigh, illustrated by Dia’ Azzawi.
Dia Azzawi, born 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq. He started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree in archaeology from Baghdad University in 1962. His studies of ancient civilisations and Iraqi heritage had a profound impact on his art, and a key objective in the early formation of his artistic style was to link the visual culture of the past to the present.