Iraq’s library struggles to rise from the ashes
by Rory McCarthy. Tuesday December 21, 2004.
Guardian Unlimited.
The daylight burning of the library, which the invading US military did not protect, was one of the first costly failures in the post-war chaos of occupation last year. Now it is slowly being restored. But in a country where recent history remains bitterly disputed, resurrecting the library and national archive has turned into a remarkably sensitive and political operation.
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