The Baghdad Librarian Today

January 8, 2008 - 2:16pm — birdie

BBC Radio interviews Dr. Saad Eskander, director of Iraq's National Library, who explains why he decided to return from exile in Britain in an attempt to preserve his country's rich cultural heritage. He describes what it is like to live with the threat of assassination in a city where sectarian gangs have killed thousands; you may recall that he kept a diary of the difficulty of reopening of the library as reported here on LISNews.

Here's the story in print.