Palestinian heritage

Palestinian volunteers are carrying out restoration, cleaning and cataloguing efforts to save damaged books and manuscripts at the Great Omari Mosque Library in Gaza City, Gaza, which was heavily damaged during Israeli attacks on 2March 2026. [Getty]
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Amid the devastation, a small group of volunteers moves slowly through the wreckage, carefully lifting damaged volumes and brushing dust off of fragile pages.

Sally Ibrahim
11 March, 2026
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Muslim culture is seeing growing recognition across the US. [Getty]
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