Joining the international efforts to rebuild the destroyed library of Iraq’s University of Mosul, the Palestinian Authority sent thousands of books to the university in August and promised more to come within a month.
The university library, which is open to the public, was set on fire by the Islamic State in June 2014. The three-story library contained thousands of books and manuscripts, some of which dated back to the Ottoman Empire, and scientific research papers prepared by students over 51 years, ever since the University, the second largest in Iraq, was founded in 1967. Some 8,000 books and 100,000 documents, including rare maps, were destroyed.