Ideas Beyond Borders: Spreading literature across the Middle East, Afghanistan

Recommendable! "Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof."

"... Yet wherever authoritarian regimes or extremist groups ban books and hinder access to knowledge, brave individuals fight back. Ideas Beyond Borders supports many of these people, from publishers printing copies of prohibited volumes and booksellers sourcing works rarely seen in the region, to the Iraqi woman opening a bookstore in the country's conservative south and the social worker bringing books to orphans in Afghanistan. Their methods vary, but they have one thing in common - a determination to stare down censorship and give people access to books, whatever the consequences. ..."

Between the Bookshelves Meet the writers, vendors and publishers celebrating literature and spreading knowledge across the Middle East, regardless of the risks.