In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

whose actions had a "traumatic effect on the population of Timbuktu". The people "lived in an atmosphere of fear, violence, oppression, humiliation, and remains present in the minds of victims in ...

Released in May 2015, Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's Cannes-winner Timbuktu arrived as one of the more poignant and artful attempts to consider the impact of religious extremism in ...