Zakiyyah Ali, top left, hosts a virtual Rebuilding Timbuktu session featuring playwright Shaun Neblett, bottom left, on July 23, 2020. Video screengrab ...

A recent surge in violence in northern Mali that saw an attack on a MINUSMA convoy kill six Burkinabe peacekeepers and forced hundreds of Malians to seek refuge in neighboring Mauritania has served as ...

Most government offices in Timbuktu remain closed, and the city’s banks are shuttered. Teachers at the few government schools that have reopened are paid by check, but they often have to cash their ...

This Cannes favourite is about Islamic extremism that the auteur narrates and comments on through very ordinary characters, through everyday situations and through sparse frames. | Hollywood ...

(RNS) Fighting in Mali has destroyed or damaged many religious artifacts and buildings in Timbuktu, an ancient Islamic learning center. Skip to content Mastodon Covering the world of religion.

I don’t kid myself that the people who complain loudly about the absence or silence of “moderate Muslims” would ever go see a movie that so directly challenges their Western-centric worldview.

The imam replies that in Timbuktu, people wage jihad (which has the double meaning of spiritual reflection and self-purification, in addition to earthly holy war) with their minds and not with guns.

Timbuktu is a trove of medieval treasures. ... religious and mercantile center ... an estimated 200,000 people have been displaced by the uprising in the wider region.

In October 2012, Timbuktu residents told CNN that Islamist fighters had attacked more mausoleums. “After the attack, the Islamists told the people that worshiping saints is not right, according ...

As Timbuktu opens to outsiders and word of its treasures spreads, so too does the interest in the books from outside collectors. In some ways, saving these old manuscripts could imperil them further.

After a meal one day at the only restaurant to speak of in Timbuktu, Canadian writer-travelers Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle strolled outside.