Saad Eskander leaves Iraq National Library

I forward this message from Charles E. Jones:

    "I bring news, with his permission, that Dr. Saad Eskander is no
    longer the Director General of the Iraq National Library and
    Archives.  As Director of the Library, Dr. Eskander and the
    staff he directed worked tirelessly and under terribly difficult
    circumstances to rebuild the INLA in the period following the
    collapse of the Saddam regime and the catastrophic looting and
    arson it suffered at that time.  Under his guidance the library
    embraced the idea of a new democratic, federal and
    multi-cultural Iraq, rejected censorship, and built a strong and
    effective network of national and international colleagues and
    institutions.  As the Director of the Library he was a huge
    force for good in Iraq and the international library community".

All of us heard recent news in cultural heritage destruction in
Syria and Iraq lately.  But if you read works like "A Universal
History of Books Destruction" you will see the history is deeper and
longer.

In any case, I encourage all of you that where not subscribed to the
Iraq Crisis diffusion list to do it here:
<URL:https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/iraqcrisis>

Mauro J. Mazzini
Conservateur-restaurateur de materiaux photographiques et papier
Paris, France


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