né Caillié became the first European to visit Timbuktu and return alive. Yet it is a watchful city: With every passing vehicle, children halt soccer games, women pause from stoking adobe ovens ...

Tourist hotspots come and go but until recently, Timbuktu had been holding its own as the world’s leading destination for metaphoric travel. But I fear that globalisation is causing a steep ...

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys beneath the veil along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

Other notable airports include Gao Airport, Timbuktu Airport, and Mopti-Sevaré Airport, which facilitate travel to the more remote regions of the country. Although Mali does not have an active ...

In Ken Prestininzi’s “Timbuktu, USA,” Secretary of State Kelly Kilkenny has spent much of her career in the upper echelons of power, though to some she’s known as the Great Virgin Who Refused.

But overland travel and geopolitical relationships being what they were five hundred years ago, Europeans didn’t go there. As ...

"Timbuktu, USA" is a work by Ken Prestininzi ... with opening night being "pay what you can." For information, visit intramuraltheater.org. Students watch three troupes of actors from Goat ...