Update: Yes indeed! ... I was K.O. for a while. May have something to do with my shrunken cognitive functions, but now i am glad to announce that i'm nearly back on my feet again.
Please click to the links to the Diary of Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive. Dr Eskander's journal, which appears with his kind permission, starts in November 2006 and describes the perilous and tragic situation that the Iraq National Library and Archive is operating under and which led to the institution's temporary closure at the end of that month. Via -The British Library-