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The Future of the War on Terror

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Caitlin L. Chandler

Over the horizon: on U.S. military strategy in Niger

Over the Horizon

by Caitlin L. Chandler,

The next frontier in the war on terror

Guardians of Memory

by Fred Bahnson,

The quest to save ancient manuscripts

The Story of a New Name

by Anna Badkhen,

By Anna Badkhen, from Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah, out this month from Riverhead Books. Badkhen is the author of several previous books, including…

Guns and Poses

by Sarah A. Topol,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

by Tristan McConnell,

Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

The United States was investigating claims that someone flushed a copy of the Koran down a Guantánamo Bay toilet. In Afghanistan, news of the flushing led to riots, where hundreds…

Baba the thief

by Leland Hall,

A Timbuctoo experience

The son of Lehsen

by Leland Hall,

A Timbuctoo portrait

Salt comes to Timbuctoo

by Leland Hall,

— (II)

by Harper’s Staff,

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The Future of the War on Terror

Over the Horizon

Guardians of Memory

The Story of a New Name

Guns and Poses

How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

Weekly Review

Baba the thief

The son of Lehsen

Salt comes to Timbuctoo

— (II)

August 1897

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