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  • 1/28/2025
“All these books were prohibited. We sold them in secret.”

Books banned under Syria’s Bashar al-Assad are now on sale at Damascus shops.

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00:00The bookstores of these authors are all limited.
00:23We sell them secretly, under the table.
00:26The only ones we trust are the students, researchers, and so on.
00:31Once, in 2010, a year before the revolution,
00:36two groups of ten people came and searched the entire library.
00:40They published more than 600 books.

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