WORLD● LOWSep 22 · Sep 22, 2026, 3:15 PM
Syrian man reunited with secret library hidden for 15 years
France 24 [en] · middle east
A Syrian man has been reunited with his collection of over 100 Islamic texts, science books and poems,15 years after sealing the collection behind a wall. Mustafa Khaled Alwan had built to conceal the library, which would likely have landed in prison, or worse, under Bashar al-Assad's rule.
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