Global Talk podcast: Meet the Palestinian trying to set up Gaza’s first English-language library

Mosab Abu Toha (L) looks at books with his friend Shafi Salem in the garden of Mosab's family home in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on February 20, 2017. Mohammed Abed / AFP Photo

Mosab Abu Toha, who has never left Gaza, is passionate about books and believes they can help to connect the Palestinian territory's isolated residents with the outside world. In the latest episode of Global Talk, Laura Mackenzie talks to the 25-year-old about the highs and lows of his journey to establish Gaza's first English-language library.

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