Bookstores struggle for survival in country ravaged by war

Five years of war have nearly decimated the industry

BEIRUT BY SAMI MOUBAYED
Syria

Book sales and production — once a prized commodity of the Damascus intelligentsia — are now suffocating, just like everything else in Syria, due to five years of war. Storehouses have been torched, classics have been destroyed, and so has Syria’s...

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