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This Is What a Syrian City’s First Free Library Looks Like
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Borzou Daragahi
Borzou Daragahi is a Middle East correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Istanbul.
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Sarah Dadouch
Sarah Dadouch is a Syrian journalist based in Istanbul.
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August 9, 2016
Abstract
In a war-ravaged suburb of Damascus, rebel fighters nurture a library of 15,000 books to keep the hopes of revolution alive.
Keyword: Libraries
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First published in BuzzFeed, February 4, 2016, and reprinted with their permission. Spelling has been Americanized and grammatical infelicities corrected.
About the authors
Borzou Daragahi
Borzou Daragahi is a Middle East correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Istanbul.
Sarah Dadouch
Sarah Dadouch is a Syrian journalist based in Istanbul.
Published Online: 2016-8-9
Published in Print: 2016-7-1
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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