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Joshua Hammer
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Joshua Hammer is an American journalist and author who has worked as a Newsweek foreign correspondent and wrote The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.
Biography
Joshua Ives Hammer is an American content creator, journalist and freelance foreign correspondent. He is described as a bureau chief for Newsweek in Europe and has worked for the magazine in that capacity.
Hammer has written several books and is identified as the author of the best-selling The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (2016). His writing includes a book that tells of efforts to protect centuries-old Arabic texts in Timbuktu from destruction, and he is recognized as both an author and a correspondent in his professional profile.
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Books by Joshua Hammer
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
Led by archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu undertakes a brazen, Ocean's Eleven–style effort to save centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.