Day: August 10, 2016

LINK: ‘Badass Librarians’ Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts In 2012, jihadists—armed to the teeth with weapons seized in Libya after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi—overran northern Mali and established a brutal, sharia regime in Timbuktu. Once a center of learning and culture, the city housed a priceless collection of manuscripts: volumes of poetry, encyclopedias,…

Read the full article