coffeebourbon:Abdel Kader Haidara, The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qae
coffeebourbon:Abdel Kader Haidara, The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda“Over nine traumatic months, Haidara and his team rescued 350,000 manuscripts from 45 different libraries in and around Timbuktu and hid them in Bamako, more than 400 miles from the AQIM-controlled north”. -- source link
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