The war ravaged the library of Mosul University. The Czechs want to return the center of education to the Iraqi people - Člověk v tisni
Been looking at my old friend's library at the University of Mosul and it looks like groups in various countries are trying to restock some of the books that were burned. I had not heard from this friend since around 1986 because our letters just got too heated. I mean with animosity. He had became radicalized against the West by 1986.
Was a gentle soul in 1983-1984 at the University of Denver Library School.
Terrible and not for NOTHING what happened to the city and the people of Mosul.
Google the Mosul Library if you know anyone who might be able to help with the rebuilding of the library and contact these people.
I do think a lot of people read the NOTHING thread.
My friend- or former friend or whatever you want to call him was still at the U of Mosul library around 2012 but whenever I tried Googling him some time after that never found much of anything.
https://www.givemn.org/story/Rebuild...y590261448b89f
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Once a major center of learning in the Middle East, the library at the University of Mosul was destroyed by ISIS when they occupied the city in June 2014. The militants methodically burned nearly all of the one million books, manuscripts, and historic maps saving only a few chemistry textbooks that they used to build crude explosives. One of the finest libraries in the Middle East was burned to the ground.
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