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Afghanistan's biggest bookseller launches website

Submitted by Trentono

Aug 03, 2008

Summary

The biggest bookseller in Afghanistan, who once travelled to remote areas of the country hawking books out of a bus, is expanding his business by launching a website.

Shah Muhammad Rais, who claims to have the world's biggest collection of books on Afghanistan in major international languages, says he wants his countrymen to get reading again.

He gave up his mobile book business in 2006 due to increasing violence and security problems. Read the full article

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