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Can Books Keep Young Baghdadis From Leaving The City?

WORDS Posted: April 10, 2014 12:53 am

“Bathed in the rainbow-colored light of an old Baghdadi window, Ali al-Makhzomy explained his plan to get technology-obsessed young Iraqis to read books – old-fashioned books, with pages.” He says, “We really want Baghdad in the 1930s or ’40s or ’50s to return. It was more civilized. How do we know? We read about it.”

WORDS Published: 04.08.14

Read the story in The Washington Post Published: 04.08.14

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