Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The people who came to the library were from all walks of life.
Some were fighters who would take their books with them to swap at the front line.
Others were practising doctors and dentists at the field hospital.
Unable to complete their studies under the siege, they read anatomy and pharmaceutical books from the library.
For four years, this library has been the beating heart of rebel resistance in Dorea.
But then on August 26, 2016, everything changed again.
The last of 25 buses carrying... The day they announced that the city is going to force evacuate to Egypt, northwest Syria, I went back to our media office.
We collected our stuff and we were like so overwhelmed.
I went to the library and my last visit was one week before the forced evacuation of the city.
It was only days after Malik had left Daraya, sitting in the city of Idlib, he watched the news coverage.
Government soldiers discovering and looting the secret library and its thousands of books they had collected.
Their four-year-long well-kept secret was out.
It was so sad.
We had that emotional connect with these books.
But at the same time, I felt like at least we preserved this book.
We saved these books for a certain amount of time for these four years.
But it was the bad guys who stole them and sell them.
Malik now lives in Turkey.
He remembers reading a sociology book at the library in which he learned to term the third place.
So we have our house, then we have the work, but the third place, when we gather us all, whenever we want to do whatever we want, we miss it.
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