A lesson in determination

You think today was a struggle. You’re glad to be home, to recover from the slings and arrows of your day at the mill. Read this, and think again.

Nabil remained on Mutanabi Street, overseeing reconstruction of the shops even as he struggled to rebuild himself. A month later, he left to undergo further surgery. “He is a believer,” said Mohammed Taha, a family friend, as workmen on scaffolding repaired the wall above the thick Grecian columns outside.

A Baghdad Bookseller, Bound to His Country - washingtonpost.com.



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