The Cultural Cafe is an institution in Slemani, but even this bookshop has fallen on hard times. Once it occupied a pleasant building in a suburban street, combining a bookshop with a cafe. Now it is reduced to a rather flimsy tent on the edge of the bazaar. However, their enthusiasm for books still remains.
Publishing has also been drastically reduced with a mere handful of books being published each month. Almost all publishing had been government supported and that money has completed dried up.
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