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Abdallaa Abu Dawh, 82, a former teacher at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, reads in his basement home which contains about 15,000 books collected in the course of his life in the hope of offering young people in his village in the Nile Delta books to read for free. Reuters

Abdallaa Abu Dawh, 82, a former teacher at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, reads in his basement home which contains about 15,000 books collected in the course of his life in the hope of offering young people in his village in the Nile Delta books to read for free. Reuters

Sep 08, 2022

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