Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya. Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie. Archéologie subaquatique Profit was also too often

Profit was also too often the motivation for prospecting

the second in the “Kelainai” collection

Sans renier le savoir livresque

which nevertheless remained largely unknown

Volume XXII

Les Passeurs de livres de Daraya. Une bibliothèque secrète en Syrie. Archéologie subaquatique Profit was also too oftenFrom 2012 to 2016, the rebel held suburb of Daraya endured a relentless siege imposed by Damascus. Four years of descent into hell, punctuated by barrel bombings, chemical gas attacks, and submission through starvation. Faced with the violence of Bashar al Assad's regime, some forty young Syrian revolutionaries took the unusual step of exhuming thousands of books buried beneath the ruins and gathering them in a clandestine library, hidden away in a