Number 89 2016 MELA NOTES Journal of Middle Eastern Librarianship Number 89 2016 ISSN 0364 2410 PUBLISHED BY THE MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION EDITOR REVIEW EDITOR Marlis J Saleh Rachel…

The images in the collection International Tangier: Early 20th century Morocco and the Western Mediterranean depict sites in Tangier and throughout the western Mediterranean roughly between the waning years of the 19th century and 1930s. They are

About the Collection International Tangier Early 20th century Morocco and the Western Mediterranean The images in the collection International Tangier Early 20th century Morocco and the Western…

This is the description for a program I have organized to take place in our multipoint interactive videoconferencing system (Elluminate) on September 10. I’m quite looking forward to it. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, a global…

Please allow me a bit of shameless self promotion. A new book has been published, and I am one of the editors: Africa’s Islamic Experience: History, Culture and Politics. The title is self explanatory. It is a collection of essays that I had the…

Creating online resources to study Arab culture and civilization served as a catalyst for extended collaboration among liberal arts colleges Some positive responses emerged from the tragic events of September 11, 2001, including recognition of the…

The library of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) is a small, highly specialized research library in the old medina of Tangier. Though the library contains specialized, often unique materials on Morocco, the Maghrib,…

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. MESA is primarily concerned with the area…