#Beirut’s public libraries quietly building a new generation of readers
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http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/4cols/leading_images/tahtah-bachoura.jpg An elderly man reads quietly in the municipal library in #Bachoura. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) An elderly man reads quietly in the municipal library in Bachoura. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
Situated past a firehouse and up two flights of cigarette-littered stairs, in a municipal building overlooking a cemetery in Bachoura, Beirut’s first municipal public library is turning 14 this year. Mohammed, 12, was the only patron in the three hundred square meter Bachoura branch on a recent afternoon. “My school isn’t that good,” said Mohammed, who has been coming to the library every day for the past nine months to read books and use the computers. He brings his three younger siblings once a week, but said his friends would rather stay home (...)
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