New chapter for historic book market
Times Wire Reports
Iraqis danced and played traditional music in celebration as Baghdad’s renowned Mutanabi book market formally reopened more than 18 months after a truck bomb devastated the center of Iraqi intellectual life.
The ceremony for the book market, named after a 10th century Baghdad poet, marks another step in the return to normality in the Iraqi capital.
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