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Monday, February 04, 2008

I didn't realise

that Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, is a British citizen who returned to his native Iraq to do what he could to save the library, which was heavily damaged early in the war and maintains a precarious positon in Baghdad. His story is remarkable, as is that of his staff, who have stayed despite the hardships. He is also a Kurd trying to build a library to serve all of Iraq's people, regardless of ethnicity.

Baghdad's brave librarian

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