Baghdad’s brave librarian
CS Monitor – “Loud talkers, lost books … and the occasional sniper fire, rocket attacks, and death threats are what Saad Eskander is up against in rebuilding the National Library and Archive.”
View ArticleGoogle documents Iraqi museum treasures
AP – “Google is documenting Iraq’s national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. The museum was...
View ArticleIraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned
AP – “It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it...
View ArticleHow goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing
Associated Press – “The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003. But, say the store’s two owners, the future is...
View ArticleTug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands
AP – “A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq. Ranging from a...
View ArticleA Corner of American Outreach Has Few Visitors, and Plenty of Dust
NYT – “In a nook of the library at Baghdad University, sturdy histories of the American Revolution and the Vietnam War line up next to Alexis de Tocqueville and John Updike. Paperbacks from Tom Clancy...
View ArticleTROVE OF IRAQI JEWISH BELONGINGS TO GO ON DISPLAY
“The tattered Torah scroll fragments, Bibles and other religious texts found in a flooded Baghdad basement 10 years ago testify to a once-thriving Jewish population thats all but disappeared from...
View ArticleNational Archives Unveils Iraqi Jewish Artifacts in Exhibit Opening November 8
“[On] Friday, November 8, the National Archives will unveil a new exhibition, “Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage.” The exhibit details the dramatic recovery of historic materials...
View ArticleYoung Iraqi hopes books will stop his peers from migrating
“Bathed in the rainbow-colored light of an old Baghdadi window, Ali al-Makhzomy explained his plan to get technology-obsessed young Iraqis to read books — old-fashioned books, with pages. Outside the...
View ArticleIraqi libraries ransacked by Islamic State group in Mosul
“When Islamic State militants invaded the Central Library of Mosul last month, they were on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people’s ideas. Residents say the extremists smashed the locks...
View ArticleAs Islamic State group threatens its history, Iraq moves to digitize its...
“The dimly lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and kings; imperialists and socialists;...
View ArticleArtist’s ‘blank books’ project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library
“An Iraqi-American artist is using online crowdfunding and performance art to help return books to the shelves of the University of Baghdad’s library, which burnt down during the Iraq war.The library...
View ArticleBy: Intersect Alert January 21, 2013 | SLA San Francisco Bay Region Chapter
[…] “For alumni, current and former faculty and staff and others with a connection to Eastern Kentucky University, memory lane is now just a mouse click away. EKU Libraries boasts a growing digital...
View ArticleBaghdad’s brave librarian
CS Monitor – “Loud talkers, lost books … and the occasional sniper fire, rocket attacks, and death threats are what Saad Eskander is up against in rebuilding the National Library and Archive.”
View ArticleGoogle documents Iraqi museum treasures
AP – “Google is documenting Iraq’s national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. The museum was...
View ArticleIraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned
AP – “It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it...
View ArticleHow goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing
Associated Press – “The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003. But, say the store’s two owners, the future is...
View ArticleTug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands
AP – “A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq. Ranging from a...
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