Word: al-rahim
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...Al-Rahim returned from a conference in Baghdad on civics and education last Sunday, where he toured some of the city’s functioning libraries...
...Al-Rahim said he visited several bookstores while in Iraq, including the outdoor vendors on al-Mutanabbi Street, where the sidewalks are lined with collections of used volumes...
...Al-Rahim said that the books had clearly been looted from a library and disfigured in such a way that their origins were untraceable...
Such widespread looting has been happening since the first Gulf War, said al-Rahim, who while visiting one bookstore came across an entire storeroom of volumes that he said were stolen from the University of Kuwait library in the 1990s...
Although he attributed the rampant theft to a failure on the military’s part to secure academic institutions, al-Rahim said that Iraqi customs and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been doing “quite a bit” to retrieve the items...