Description:
This diary "starts in November 2006 and describes the perilous and tragic situation that the Iraq National Library and Archive [Baghdad] is operating under and which led to the institution's temporary closure at the end of that month." Browse monthly entries related to the damage the library sustained "[w]hen the Saddam regime was toppled in 2003, [and] the Iraq National Library and Archive in Baghdad was set alight and looted." From the British Library. |