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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Good News from Iraq: 1 May 2007

Baghdadis find a new canvas for hope.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - In a city disfigured by barbed wire, blast walls and bomb craters, Iraqi painters are transforming ugly barriers born of civil strife into vistas of the country's enduring natural beauty.

Around 50 artists have assembled along the median of Al-Sadun street, a main thoroughfare of the battle-weary capital, to paint pastoral scenes on the blast walls that split the street in half.

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