Middle East and Islamic Studies Library Resources

Harvard University's Middle East collections specializes in materials in Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, Urdu, and Uzbek from mainly the Middle East, Near East, North Africa, and diaspora communities.  The Middle East collections is drawn from Widener Library's Humanities and Social Science Collection Development (HSSCD.)  The entirety of the collection's holdings can be accessed through Harvard Library's HOLLIS Catalog.

• HOLLIS Catalog:  Contains the collection's holding across all Harvard libraries, archives, and special collections on books, films, government documents, journal articles, images, manuscripts, maps, music, newspapers, photographs, posters, etc.

Special Collections within Harvard Libraries

Fine Arts Library: Aga Khan Collection in Art and Architecture

• Special Collections:  Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture

• Special Collections: Islamic Photographs

Lamont Library: Government Documents

• Special Collections:  Palestine in Government Documents

Loeb Music Library: Archive of World Music (AWM) 

• Special Collections:  Arab 78 Collection

Widener Library: Humanities and Social Sciences Collection Development (HSSCD)  

• Special Collections:  Arab Posters

• Special Collections:  Byzantine Fieldwork Photography

• Special Collections:  Charlie Hebdo Archive

• Special Collections:  Coptica at Harvard

• Special Collections:  Iranian Oral History Project

• Special Collections:  Islamic Heritage

• Special Collections:  Kurdish People and Lands (coming soon) 

• Special Collections:  Tehran Propaganda Murals

• Special Collections:  Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran