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National Theatre of Iraq

Drawing the curtain after the bombs.

Yes, there is one. And it is just reopened for the first time since the US invasion.

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National Theatre of Iraq - Source: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep Flickr .

Although the theatre was looted during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, efforts were underway to restore the theatre until it formally reopened last Autumn 2009.

It is a 1,000 seat theatre, built during the Iran-Iraq war and which in its heyday hosted sell-out foreign productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov.

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Article from The London Telegraph.
Article from Al Arabiya News.

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