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The Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali on bookshops as a source of refuge.

The Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali reflects on how bookshops can offer refuge to those fleeing their home countries.

Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists. 

Today, the Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali reflects on how bookshops can offer refuge to those fleeing their home countries.

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Five European writers explore how issues in their societies are reflected by novelists.

Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.

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