Rare books provide insight into Saudi Arabia’s past
The King Abdul Aziz Public Library in Riyadh has acquired a new collection of rare books that sheds important new light on the history of the Arabian Peninsula. (SPA) Short […]
How our entire history was dumped in a horse stable
Dawn.com: by Majid Sheikh – Away it went in ignominy, on hundreds of wheelbarrows to be dumped in a dirty, humid and putrid discarded horse stable. I am talking about one of the world’s finest, and surely the second largest collection of rare books, manuscripts and document dealing with the […]