MELA NOTES


Number 75-76

Fall 2002-Spring 2003

CONTENTS

(All articles in PDF)

ARTICLE

Omar Khalidi

   A Guide to Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu Manuscript Libraries in India



THREE ATIYEH PRIZE ESSAYS

Christine Dykgraaf 

   Middle Eastern Librarianship: The State of the Art

Julie Coons 

   MELA/MESA Report for the George Atiyeh Prize

An-Chi Hoh Dianu 

   Contemporary Short Stories by Kuwaiti Women: A Study of Their Social Context and Characteristics



BRIEF COMMUNICATION

Jan Teofil Jasion 

   A Brief Survey of the Iranica Periodicals at the International Library, Haifa, Israel



REVIEWS

Repp: Glossar bibliothekarischer Fachtermini: Arabisch-Deutsch (Christof Galli)

Lane: E. W. Lane Arabic-English Lexicon [CD-ROM] (Jonathan Rodgers)

Darwish: The Adam of Two Edens: Poems (Christine Dykgraaf)

Homerin: From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Farid, his Verse, and his Shrine (Walter Oller)

Nelson: The Art of Reciting the Qur'an (Erik S. Ohlander)

Zuhur: Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East (Elizabeth Cooper)

Cooke: Hayati, My Life: a Novel (Katherine Nielsen)

Bivar: The Personalities of Mithra in Archæ ology and Literature (Katherine Nielsen)

Atabaki: Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (Paul Crego)

Galal: Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? Changes in Egyptian Society from the 1950 to the Present (Fadi H. Dagher)

Wassef and Wassef: Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of the Egyptian Women's Movements, 1900-1960 (Fadi H. Dagher)

Webb: Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America (An-Chi Hoh Dianu)

Mack and Boyd: One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe (Connie Lamb)



ANNUAL MEETING 2002

Minutes and Reports: 2002 MELA Annual Business Meeting


Bylaws: Middle East Librarians Association (Amended Nov. 2002). (Bylaws in html text)


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