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Weekend Reading: The Taxi Drivers of Damascus, Women’s Prisons in Egypt, and Morocco’s Meteorite Trade

Reading selections for the weekend of March 10, 2017.

<p>A vendor sells books at Mutanabi Street in Baghdad (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters).</p>
A vendor sells books at Mutanabi Street in Baghdad (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters).

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  • Steven A. CookCFR Expert
    Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies

Mohamed Ozon explores life in Damascus today through the lens of the city’s taxi drivers.

Ravy Shaker, in a photo essay, takes a look at life inside women’s prisons in Egypt.

Quentin Muller investigates the lucrative business of meteorite trading in Morocco.