How to pronounce “kader” in English

Abdel Kader Haidara had a unique story, a pretty extraordinary story.

Abdel Kader kind of leaned towards the money-making side of his father's career but was persuaded by the chief librarian, who appealed

Abdel Kader was supposed to be getting money together.

So back to Abdel Kader-- this is the kind of landscape-- this is the road to Timbuktu if you could even imagine there's a road there.

So Abdel Kader would go out into the bush.

And then I'll continue Abdel Kader's story very briefly.

low-tech smuggling operation that Abdel Kader Haidara then engaged in, because he believed that at some point-- although they had not specifically threatened

So by the time Abdel Kader came around-- and I neglected to tell you this part of the story, what he was doing in the first place.

So by the time Abdel Kader came and had to try to find these works, there was a lot of fear out there.

But I'm sure that Abdel Kader's library, which is also a really impressive-- more modest building, but impressive still.

And he has made contact with Abdel Kader Haidara.

But anyway, Abdel Kader was determined to rescue this lost tradition.

So this is a typical scene of Abdel Kader at work.

So Abdel Kader then embarked upon this incredibly elaborate effort using a network of smugglers, volunteers, fellow

And then two more trips followed to Mali to kind of both piece together Abdel Kader's biography and then to go up to the North and find out what had happened.

During that trip, I met this gentleman, Abdul Kader Haidara.

There were 50 libraries, 377,000 volumes recollected by Abdel Kader and other librarians who emulated him who

In their final act of vengeance, exactly what Abdel Kader foretold or feared what happened in fact happened, which was that the jihadists grabbed every manuscript

So let me read two passages from this book that will kind of give you a taste of Abdel Kader.

This is the Ahmed Baba Institute, the government owned library, which they attacked and gathered every manuscript that had been left behind, that Abdel Kader had been able to save,

So I'm going to read one more section, I think, that will give you another look at Abdel Kader and his methods.