Historic Bookstores in Damascus Closing Doors | Al Akhbar English
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Damascus - For some four decades, Maysaloun bookstore in the heart of Damascus was one of the city’s most important sources for publications on leftist and progressive thought, but in January of 2010, it closed its doors after its owners put it up for commercial investment.
This historical bookstore was not the first to meet such a fate; many other bookstores had already been converted into shops, fast food restaurants, or branches of the private commercial banks that have invaded the Syrian market in recent years.