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    In Iraq's Mosul, art springs up from ruins almost 5 years after the ouster of ISIS

    This vibrant street art is a sign of the spirited rebuilding going on in the northern Iraqi city, after ISIS was defeated in 2017.
    by Jason Beaubien Mar 20, 2022 3 minutes
    Twenty-year-old Rusul Ahmed has painted several of the murals in Mosul. She says after the dark period of ISIS, the colorful murals make people happy.

    MOSUL, Iraq — After ISIS took over this northern Iraqi city in 2014, women weren't allowed to show their faces in public. They had to wear black veils with just slits for their eyes and long black robes. They could be whipped, and their husbands fined, if the women violated the dress code.

    Now colorful murals are popping up all across Mosul on what had been bullet-strafed facades. And many of them are giant

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