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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
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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Cairo, Egypt
Islamabad, Pakistan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Nairobi, Kenya
New Delhi, India
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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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. |