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July 23, 2007: The London "Times": In Defense of Libraries
"THE FIRST LIBRARY I KNEW was my father’s bookshop in the then cosmopolitan community of Cairo; it was burnt down in l952, in the first significant insurgency of Arab nationalists under the future president Nasser, during the last complacent period of the British Empire. "
