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An elderly man has been standing for years on the streets near Mosul University, offering books for free to anyone who wants to borrow them. Many of those who take the books are students from the ...

In the book there’s also mention of Yazidi women who had been slaves of IS, returned commandos and their devastated families. It also explains how petty criminals in Western Sydney became some ...

British author Edmund de Waal says he will donate almost 2,000 books to the Mosul University Library in Iraq to help rebuild its collection, which was partly destroyed by Daesh terrorists in 2015.

Just as they devastated the ancient cities of Hatra and Nineveh, they attacked the northern Iraqi metropolis of Mosul, destroying places of worship and cultural sites. Rare books and manuscripts ...