Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson memoir and celebrate lives well-lived

and celebrate lives well-lived

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the emotional side of human politics

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Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson memoir and celebrate lives well-livedDaraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. Its buildings lay in ruins; office buildings, shops and family homes shattered by the constant shelling from government forces. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a secret library.