Thanks for this. Devastating loss of human life with the car bomb, and devastating loss of liberties with violence and sensorship. How powerful to then read "I am Iraqi. I read". Words. Ideas. Comfort. Inspiration. Books are so powerful and hence so frightening to repressive regimes.
I knew the Egyptians set the cultural standard in TV and cinema, but I didn't know they were the main producers of books in the Arab world.
Thanks for this. Devastating loss of human life with the car bomb, and devastating loss of liberties with violence and sensorship. How powerful to then read "I am Iraqi. I read". Words. Ideas. Comfort. Inspiration. Books are so powerful and hence so frightening to repressive regimes.