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We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?
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― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
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They glided out of the heat-haze on their camels like specters. There were twenty of them, and they were Tuareg. Their faces were hidden by black veils that left only slits for the eyes, and they wore purple robes that fluttered in the desert wind. They carried swords, muskets and seven-foot iron spears, and wore stilettos in sheaths on their left forearms. They were an impressive, sinister sight.
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― Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
― Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
