African & Middle Eastern Reading Room (African and Middle Eastern Division, Area Studies)

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Of Current Interest:

North Africa & the Middle East 2011
This collection documents the events in Northern Africa and the Middle East in 2011 after the Tunisian uprising. Content includes blogs, social media and news sites about Egypt, Yemen, Sudan and other African countries. The content of these sites is in Arabic, English, and French and was collected by the Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division and Cairo Field Office, and by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, and Stanford University.
It was archived by Archive -IT.

Jasmine Revolution - Tunisia 2011
This collection consists of websites documenting the revolution in Tunisia in 2011, and is in French, Arabic, and English. The websites were collected by the Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division and Cairo Field Office, and by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, and Stanford University and archived by Archive -IT.

From left: 18th century Middle East book binding; The Washington Haggadah; Kente Cloth
From left: 18th century Middle East book binding; The Washington Haggadah;
Kente Cloth

Of Special Interest:

Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series

Online Exhibition: "To Know Wisdom and Instruction: the Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress"

Obama Memorabilia from Africa [PDF, 214KB]

C-Span Documentary on the Library of Congress

Yizkor-Memorial Book Collection:
A New and Expanded Finding Aid [PDF, 607KB]

Hebrew Incunabula at the Library of Congress: A Short-Title List [PDF, 432KB]

Online Exhibition: Voices from Afghanistan

Report of a Survey Tour to Northern Nigeria

Digital Collection: The Kirkor Minassian Cuneiform Tablet Collection

Digital Collection: Islamic Manuscripts from Mali

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African and Middle
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The African & Middle Eastern Reading Room is the primary public access point for materials housed in the the African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) which include a variety of vernacular scripts, such as Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and Yiddish. Covering 77 countries from Morocco to Southern Africa to the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, the division's three sections--African, Hebraic, and Near East--offer in-depth reference assistance, provide substantive briefings on a wide range of subjects relating to these languages and cultures, produce guides to the Library's vast resources and cooperate in developing and preserving the Division's unparalleled collections.

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