During her most uncertain days, Layla Tarhini was reading historical novels. While the bombs were falling on her people, this 32-year-old Lebanese woman was embroiled in stories located in distant times and lands. "I wanted to travel to another place, to another time," she tells from behind the counter of the Philosophia bookstore. The stories of the Persian dynasties of the Middle Ages appeased her sleepless nights. Displaced from her home in t…
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During her most uncertain days, Layla Tarhini was reading historical novels. While the bombs were falling on her people, this 32-year-old Lebanese woman was embroiled in stories located in distant times and lands. "I wanted to travel to another place, to another time," she tells from behind the counter of the Philosophia bookstore. The stories of the Persian dynasties of the Middle Ages appeased her sleepless nights. Displaced from her home in t…