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Iranian censors

Bijan Khalili

Step inside a Los Angeles bookstore that takes on Iran’s censors

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“Reading books is a human right,” says bookseller Bijan Khalili, who runs Ketab Corporation, a Persian bookstore in Los Angeles. It started as a simple service to exiles who had fled the Iranian Revolution, leaving their books behind.

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