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Book 2016
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
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- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Librarians
- Libraries
- Arabic Manuscripts
- Islamic learning and scholarship
- Cultural property
- Destruction and pillage
- Protection
- History
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
