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‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves

Under the deposed dictator, books had to pass detailed scrutiny by government censors

To print a book in the days of the Bashar al-Assad regime, one first had to think of the censors. Was the book pol…