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IRAQ Mosul, a literary café for cultural and social rebirth in aftermath of ISIS

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Creato: 09 Marzo 2018
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cafe mosulA place dedicated to encounter and literature opens in the former capital of the Caliphate. The jihadists burned books and whipped those who read forbidden texts. Marx and Nietzsche are also on the shelves today. The project was born thanks to the commitment of two thirty-year-old engineers who want to

be "open to all sectors" and change society.

 Mosul (AsiaNews) - The idea of ​​opening a place dedicated to meeting and reading "came while we were under occupation", when culture and books became the only weapon to oppose the insane ideology of Islamic State jihadists (SI , ex Isis).

Today, a few months after the city’s liberation, the first literary café has been opened in Mosul, the second most important city in Iraq and for over three years the stronghold and capital of the self-styled "Caliphate". A place where some of the worst Daesh atrocities were consummated (Arabic acronym for the Islamic State) and which today, is struggling to rise from the ashes to be reborn to new life starting also from the books that the militiamen burned in the squares.

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9.3.2018