Baroque Blended on Instagram: "Did you know booksellers in Iraq leave their stalls unguarded overnight, trusting in the saying: “The reader does not steal, and the thief does not read”? Along Baghdad’s historic Mutanabbi Street and other literary corners, vendors close at dusk but leave volumes stacked in the open air—poetry, history, philosophy—confident they’ll be untouched by morning. The practice is more than quaint tradition; it’s a quiet testament to the city’s centuries-old reverence for