From explosions that shook the building to heating fuel prices that are 40 times higher than in the fall to assassinations and death threats among his staff–Saad Eskander, the director of Iraq’s National Library and Archive in Baghdad, has faced these and many other challenges in his efforts to keep the system operating. Eskander tells his story in diary entries that have been appearing on the website of the British Library. An article chronicling his work also appeared on February 7 in The New York Times.
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