From the Lebanon Daily Star:
Reopening the National Library and dusting off its books are crucial to the country’s future, Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh said Tuesday.
“There is no self-respecting country in the world that does not have a national library,” Salameh told a news conference at the Port of Beirut to kick off the first phase of the project to rehabilitate the facility.
Salameh said the library, which closed in 1976 after the start of the civil war and whose books were taken to warehouses, was an “essential part of our past and future,” as it reveals the country’s identity and is a “weapon”in the hands of future generations.
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