Today’s Washington Post profiles Lebanon’s Public Library of His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (the Fadlallah Library for short):
Nearby are the autobiographies of Bill Clinton and Malcolm X. There are tomes on Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali and the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. Behind [librarian Hoda] Jaloul is a memoir of Richard Nixon; alongside that is “My Life,” the autobiography of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president. The memoir of the late King Hussein of Jordan sits on another shelf. “It’s Not Easy to Be a King,” the title reads.
Jaloul, 32, a black and tan veil covering her hair, is a stern woman, with the seriousness that accompanies a sense of mission. “There must be everything available in a library,” she said.
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