"If you had asked about this book 60 days ago, you could have disappeared in Saydnaya [prison]," says Syrian student Amr al-Laham after he finally found a copy of 'Al-Maabar' at a bookshop, as books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus secondhand bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES