![Media file: Pulitzer.JPG](/sites/default/files/03-16-13/Pulitzer.JPG "A sign erected by the Islamists on the main road to Gao, the
biggest city in the northern region of Mali. It reads "Welcome to the Islamic State of Gao." Image by Yochi Dreazen. Mali, 2013.")
In northern Mali, far from Western eyes, a powerful Al Qaeda affiliate has managed to carve out what...
Yochi Dreazen discusses the story he uncovered in the midst of Mali's civil war: The secret rescue of centuries-old manuscripts in the ancient city of Timbuktu.
