35,000 to 40,000 manuscripts are preserved in traditional libraries in the south of the country, in addition to 5,000 others identified at the National Library in Algiers (BN), Minister of Culture Azzedine Mihoubi said on Tuesday in Algiers.
Speaking to the National Radio Channel one, Mihoubi added that it was impossible at the moment to know the exact number of manuscripts preserved in the traditional libraries in the south but experts in collaboration with the owners of these libraries were working to determine it.
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