How to pronounce “timbuk” in English

So Timbuktu-- how did I come upon this place?

In Timbuktu, Mahmoud Zouber, the library curator, looked on with astonishment.

And today in Timbuktu, you can hold documents handcrafted in the 10th century in of astronomy,

And from Timbuktu, we traveled North to an ancient salt mine where the salt once traded ounce for ounce with the gold from the desert.

It could be Timbuktu.

These guys were leaving Timbuktu in August, 2013 after serving a few months.

'I'm from Timbuktu,' replied Haidara in Tamasheq, the language of the Tuaregs.

and arrived in Timbuktu in 1996, and began hearing stories about this collector in this town.

So Gates gets to Timbuktu, and shows up with a certain plan, has never heard of Haidara, has a certain plan of going to the mosque and filming there.

he had made in Timbuktu.

caravan to Timbuktu and this is the only, umm, uh, the only, uh, consistent water point so there's a little village here where they trade

when they managed to get into Timbuktu back then and where one of them had been executed after it was found he was not a Muslim.

Another shot of the oldest neighborhood of Timbuktu-- Sankore, it's called.

He was the most charismatic figure in Timbuktu in this manuscript effort.

Thousands of students came to Timbuktu from all across the Arab world.

in the dunes west of Timbuktu.

This is what's basically keeping Timbuktu safe right now are these guys.

They had left their original home in Timbuktu.

Haidara headed back up river to Timbuktu, his boat riding low in the water, weighed down with foot lockers and piles of camel skin sacks.

It was a bone dry climate in Timbuktu, so he was lucky, Gates said.

'You remember that library in Timbuktu that was built without your authorization with your money?' he asked the program officer.

He has served as COO for Patagonia and as CEO of Timbuktu.

mud hovels. And in Timbuktu to this day, which rivaled Damascus and Cairo and Baghdad as great centers of Islamic knowledge--

So part of it was when we got started with "Timbuktu"-- our very first product was "Timbuktu" magazine, which

So a couple of colleagues and I in 1995 went to Timbuktu.

It definitely caught my attention given my previous trip to Timbuktu and my interest in literature, and the preservation of manuscripts, and cultural patrimony.

So there was tremendous joy at having reached Timbuktu, but at the same time great disappointment.

This gentleman was the son of a scholar in Timbuktu, became interested in Timbuktu's lost literary tradition

And I should also point out that not only did Timbuktu become a desolate place, poverty stricken place, but the whole tradition of literature,

It should be pointed out of course that the people in Timbuktu back then also participated in the slave trade.

And that's what the Sahara and the area around Timbuktu offered.

The government fell. Timbuktu fell on April 1st, 2012.

and making life extremely difficult for the residents of Timbuktu and across the north.

And I was heading across the Niger river to visit Timbuktu to start my reporting on this book project.

There had been a succession of attacks on Timbuktu by 19th century jihadists.

A big delegation of Americans is here in Timbuktu,' Gates' guide informed Haidara on the morning of the Harvard professor's arrival.

He's a professor at the University of San Francisco and the author of "From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta:

Joshua traces the story of many heroes who worked to preserve the written legacy of Timbuktu

You name it, everything could be found in Timbuktu-- how-to books, I should say-- how-to books about sex.

So this incredible trade flourished for 100 years or so during this golden era of Timbuktu.

in captivity. That pretty much ended Timbuktu's reign as the center or scholasticism of this part of the world.

And as time went on, Timbuktu kind of faded into insignificance of became this, as I have said, this desolate outpost that the Europeans stumbled

For hours, Haidara gave Gates a tutorial on Timbuktu's literary heritage, describing the rise of the University of Sankore and its illustrious roster of biographers, jurists,

But the idea is that one day when things are safe enough in Timbuktu, they'll be able to bring all the books, all

elephants in the desert out in Mali to the far west near Timbuktu, we're looking at elephants

I wanna go to Timbuk-bloody-tu.

And I know you kind of developed the concept for Boba Guys when you were at Timbuk2.

Elena and I moved from Italy to Silicon Valley in 2012 to start our children's media company called Timbuktu Labs.

We launched a beta version of our magazine, which was called "Timbuktu" magazine, and we got accepted into 500 Startups.