Gifted American Photographer Documents Grandeur, Plight of Mali's Fabled Timbuktu

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And now comes a brilliant young American photographer and writer, Alexandra Huddleston, who has given a substantial portion of the last eight years of her life documenting, in magnificent images and moving words, the dire threat that faces Timbuktu, both its living people and its living treasures. She has put all her work into a book, a volume that will hold you prisoner. Her 96-page text is titled "333 Saints: a Life of Scholarship Under Threat" and it tells the story of a city under siege-there is no less blunt way to put it-by Islamic fanatics who think nothing of killing people and less of killing manuscripts. Supported in part by her Fulbright, Alexandra Huddleston tells in photographs and words the story of Timbuktu's long lineage of Islamic scholarship.

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