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“... I was shelving some books when the American journalist walked in. Many international reporters have come to Jerusalem since 7 October, staying in the hotels near our Educational Bookshop on Salahadin Street in East Jerusalem. The book in my hand was Avi Shlaim’s autobiography, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew. It has been doing well for us; it traces the historian’s life from his childhood in Iraq, through his immigration to the newly founded state of Israel in the early 1950s, to his work as an academic in the UK, where he still lives ...”

“... On 8 November 2023, Mahmoud Muna, ‘your bookseller in Jerusalem’, was recommending The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid to readers here, while enjoying the ‘immense privilege’ he had to kiss his daughters goodnight and put them to bed. He reflected on how stuck foreign correspondents would be if his bookshop were to close ...”