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 T160K In the Press/Media

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Okayafrica- Ethiocolor’s 360° Music Video Revolution In Addis Ababa  6.23.2015  

SSN Insider- Development Pick List: True Story – Librarian on a Mission Saves Timbuktu’s Manuscripts  5.22.2015  

PBS News Hour– Rescuing the Priceless Manuscripts of Timbuktu   3.10.2015  (featuring T160K partner, Abdel Kader Haidara)

 Nomos Journal – Terror Heritage?   3.25.2015 

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 ActuaLitté – Collecte de fonds pour cataloguer les manuscrits de Tombouctou 2.23.15   English language translation Fundraising for cataloging the manuscripts of Timbuktu

  

The Guardian – Crowdfunding saved Timbuktu’s manuscripts. What’s next? 1.1.2015

    

INALJ (2015)- The Path of the Book: how rescued manuscripts finally get digitized  4.23.2015 

   

INALJ (2014)- Help Share the Manuscripts of Timbuktu with the World 12.2.2014 & What is T160K? And What Can You Do to Help?  12.13.2014

 

Inspiring Awesome podcast – Kickstarting Africa with Stephanie Diakite  2.13.2015

 

Library Journal – T160k Crowdfunds to Help Librarians Catalog Medieval Manuscripts from Timbuktu 1.26.2015

 

Library Juice Press Blog – Interview with Naomi House about T160K  10.22.2014

   

Mail & Guardian Africa – The future of art: 3D printing could ‘restore’ Africa’s stolen history  1.2.2015

 

National Geographic – The Brave Sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara 4.21.14

  

OCLC  – Community Action – To save the Timbuktu archives in Mali  2.25.14

   

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – The Brave Sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara  4.25.14 (same as National Geographic story)

 

Star Africa – L’intégration de la culture dans le processus de développement – amener le CROWD!  2.2.2015

  

Words in the Bucket –  Searching for Music Across Mali  2.26.15
   

T160K in the Press pre-2014

CNN – Saved from Islamists, Timbuktu’s manuscripts face new threat  5.28.13

    

Christian Science Monitor – Libraries in Exile’ fights to save priceless manuscripts in Mali  6.17.13

    

The Guardian Books – Librarians in Exile Group Launches Appeal to Save Timbuktu Manuscripts  6.17.13

    

The Huffington Post, France – Trésor culturel en péril: sauvons les manuscrits de Tombouctou  6.18.13

    

The New Republic – The Bibliophiles of Timbuktu: How a Team of Sneaky Librarians Duped Al Qaeda and Saved Some of the Ancient World’s Greatest Artifacts  4.25.13

    

The Next Web – 300,000 ancient manuscripts were saved from rebels in Timbuktu, but now face a slow death by rot  6.8.13

    

Spiegel Online – Vor Islamisten gerettet, vom Schimmel bedroht 6.19.13

    

StarAfrica.com – You can Save the Manuscripts, Interview with Abdel Kader Haidara and Stéphanie Diakité  6.11.13

    

University of Oregon video – Stephanie Diakité – “The Evacuation of the Timbuktu Manuscripts and Their Life in Exile: The Work of T160K  3.13.13

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