Sarah DeMott, Liaison to Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle East Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies
Emily Coolidge Toker, Liaison to Middle East Studies, Near East and Judaica, Lamont Library
Michael Hopper, Middle East Bibliographer, Humanities and Social Science Collection Development (HSSCD,) Widener Library
Matthew C. Smith, Middle Eastern Librarian, Persian Language Cataloger, Widener Library
Joanne Bloom, Photographic Resource Librarian, Fine Arts Library
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture, Fine Arts Library
Nicolas Roth, Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture, Fine Arts Library
Gayle Fischer, Librarian for Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Charles Berlin, Lee Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, Head, Judaica Division, Widener Library
Vardit Haimi Samuels, Judaica Collection Specialist, Widener Library
Peter Laurence, Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media, Loeb Music Library
Kerry Carwile Masteller, Reference and Digital Program Librarian, Loeb Music Library
George Clark, Research Librarian, Government Documents and Environmental Sustainability, Lamont Library
Ramona Crawford, Head of Academic Partnerships, Library liaison for Islam in Asia (especially South and Southeast Asia,) Widener Library
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.
Harvard Libraries
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
Houghton Library: Islamic Manuscripts
Finding Islamic Manuscripts at Harvard. MS Arab (Arabic Language)
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
Middle East
HOLLIS: Early Arabic Printed Books: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and Periodicals
HOLLIS: Early Arabic Printed Books: Sciences, History and Geography
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East: By housing ancient Near Eastern exhibitions, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East explores the rich history of cultures connected by the family of Semitic languages. The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East is home to Harvard University's collections of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts. These artifacts comprise over 40,000 items, including pottery, cylinder seals, sculpture, coins and cuneiform tablets. Many are from museum-sponsored excavations in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, and Tunisia. The Museum remains dedicated to the use of these collections for the teaching, research, and publication of Near Eastern archaeology, history, and culture.
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran: this collection explores the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions. It provides bilingual access to thousands of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art and audio materials, making it a unique online resource for social and cultural histories of the Qajar world
Moore, Taylor M. 2022. Abdel Rahman Ismail’s Tibb al-Rukka and the Nubian medicine bundle: toward material histories of contagion. Harvard Library Bulletin, https:// harvardlibrarybulletin.org/abdel-rahman-ismails-tibb-al-rukka-and-nubian-medicine-bundle
Discover images of Ottoman rulers from the 16th to 19th centuries
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