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How the Taliban takeover has hit Afghanistan s reading culture and public libraries

While the regime has not announced its policy regarding books, the memories of what happened in the mid-’90s still serve.

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BEYOND LOCAL: Afghanistan s libraries are shutting down

Suppressing regimes and widespread chaos over a span of 40 years squashed the public libraries and reading culture in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan s libraries go into blackout: It is painful to see the distance between people and books grow

My friend, with whom I co-founded a library in Mazar-i-Sharif, tells me books are like lights. With no one visiting the library and opening books, ‘the lights are off.’

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