# Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books

Author Karen Leggett Abouraya shares her book. "Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books," with elementary students from the District of Columbia. The story takes place during the Arab Spring of 2011 where young people take the lead in helping to save the famous Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. Karen's presentation is in English, while her husband, Tharwat Abouraya, reads passages in his native language of Arabic.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689373/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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