This Syrian man hid his private library in his home in the city of Damascus out of fear of the Assad regime, where the mere presence of a banned books could lead you to prison

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• reader@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  impressive

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  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Impressive propaganda. It’s worse now.

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @localareaman@lemmy.world huh? I’m guessing the local area is Shaoxing? lmao

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a beautiful collection of books! Those must have cost a fortune

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• LovelyMover@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a beautiful secret to keep, & even better to get to enjoy again.

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• LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What now under an Islamist Caliphate?

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  • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, because his library is full of Islamist and Salafi literature.

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    • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right? We need to protect books about burning books.

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Russia, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, UK, and would you believe it, even the USA are fighting in Syria. Many more nations are supplying money and arms .

  600K dead, at least, 10x the casualties of Israel v. Palestine (80K) and heavy international military involvement, 15 years or so of it. Russia v. Ukraine is over 2 million casualties.

  It’s not all bad news, gentle reader! Boeing’s revenue is up 2 billion, so that’s nice.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The casualties in Israel are probably much, much higher than 80k.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Completely justified to scrape clean the scum which was Assad’s regime from the face of the earth.

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• Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We found his books! Get him!

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was so fuckin worried that Syria was about to regress since it was slow progress to establish a newer fairer government, but they just abolished the Assad-era terrorism courts and nullified all previous rulings so things are looking up. It almost seems like, of all things, even the Kurds and Turkey are getting along (or at least not killing each other), as bizarre as that is.

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• Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And he posts it in the internet

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• Acklavidian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can anybody translate the titles?

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