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Volunteers rescue books from Mosul's bombed library

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July 7, 2018

The library at the University of Mosul, one of Iraq's oldest collections of books and manuscripts, was destroyed during the occupation by the "Islamic State." Young male and female volunteers are working to save books from the rubble.

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