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Alia's mission

saving the books of Iraq
  • Stamaty, Mark Alan
2004
Presents the story of Alia, a librarian who lives and works in Basra, and her desperate attempt to save the books in the central library at the start of the Iraqi War in 2003.

The librarian of Basra

a true story from Iraq
  • Winter, Jeanette
2005
During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.
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