A Timbuktu book collector between the Mediterranean and Sahel

Shamil Jeppie will be the keynote speaker at

THE SOUTHERN SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND BEYOND: 1800 – TO THE PRESENT

Conference, April 12-13 2013. This conference is hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minesota.

Shamil will talk on “A Timbuktu book collector between the Mediterranean and Sahel”, part of the research championed by the Tombouctu Manuscripts Project at Huma.