Books once banned by Assad are now on sale at Damascus shops
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28 January, 2025
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02 June, 2025 12:37 PM
Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on fundamentalist Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
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