Heroic and Historic – Saving Timbuktu’s archival treasures

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The Librarian Who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda: a middle-aged book collector in Mali helped keep the fabled city’s libraries, books and manuscripts safe from occupying jihadists

By Joshua Hammer

Wall Street Journal

April 15, 2016

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