MELA NOTES


Number 80

2007

CONTENTS

(All articles in PDF)

ARTICLES

Edward A. Jajko

 A Look Back


Omar Khalidi  

D¯a-irat al-Ma,¯arif al-Uthm¯an¯iyah: A Pioneer in Manuscript Publishing in Hyderabad, Deccan, India


Simon Samoeil  

The OACIS Project: Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials


GEORGE N. ATIYEH AWARD ESSAY
Jodi Goodman  


Considerations of Access and Their Impact on Middle East Scholarship

REVIEWS

Rosen-Ayalon: Islamic Art and Archæology in Palestine (Karl R. Schaefer)

Schaefer: Enigmatic Charms: Medieval Arabic Block Printed Amulets in American and European Libraries and Museums (Kristen Wilson)

Wassef and Wassef: Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women’s Movements, 1900–1960 (Salwa Ferahian)

How Can We Watch the Film With Sand in Our Eyes: A Round Up of Current Middle Eastern Feature Film on DVDs. Part 1: The Turks Are Coming! The Turks Are Coming! (David Giovacchini)

How Can We Watch the Film With Sand in Our Eyes: A Round Up of Current Middle Eastern Feature Film on DVDs. Part 2: Egyptian Films: Hollywood on the Nile and After (David Giovacchini)

Alkalesi: Modern Iraqi Arabic with MP3 files : A Textbook (Jonathan Hopwood)

Stowasser and Ani: A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic: English-Arabic: English-Arabic (Kristen Kern)

Kendall: The Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic (Shelton Henderson)

Sadgrove: History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (Shelton Henderson)

Ali: Al-Qur-¯an: A Contemporary Translation (David Giovacchini)

Suleiman: The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (Nicholas Ostler)

Ryding and Mehall: Formal Spoken Arabic Basic Course with MP3 Files (Mohamed Taher)

Ryding and Zaiback: Formal Spoken Arabic FAST Course with MP3 files (Mohamed Taher)

Rabkin: A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism (Blair Kuntz)

Jwaideh: The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development (Blair Kuntz)

Arfi: International Change and the Stability of Multiethnic States (Catherine Rockwell)

Harris: Muslim Youth: Tensions and Transitions in Tajikistan (Mary St. Germain)

Wayne: Inshallah : In Pursuit of My Father’s Youth (Rebecca Routh)

Johanyak: Behind the Veil: An American Woman’s Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis (Nancy Beygijanian)

Lababidi: Silent No More: Special Needs People in Egypt (Connie Lamb)


Books Received for Review in MELA Notes

ANNUAL MEETING 2006

Minutes and Reports: 2006 MELA Annual Business Meeting


Job Posting Columbia University

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