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		<title>Syrian writer wins Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian writer Khalil Sweileh received this year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel “Warrak Al-Hub” (The Scribe of Love) in an awards ceremony at the American University in Cairo in the presence of the jury, AUC Press President Mark Linz, the AUC Provost and an audience of journalists, writers and artists.
For the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New online journal: Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[posted to MELANET-L 14 December 2009 by A. Riedlmayer]
Although one might not guess from its LC catalog record, recent issues of the Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies (ISSN: 1881-8323), published twice a year since 2007, are largely in English&#8211;and full text of all articles and reviews in current and past issues is available and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Museum of Iraq Website to be launched in early 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The Virtual Iraq Museum has been initiated with the cooperation of Google and YouTube, consisting of 14,000 photos with text in Arabic, English, and French. It will be officially inaugurated in early 2010.]
http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/homeENG.htm
تم افتتاح موقع متحف العراق الوطني السمعي المرئي
هذا مشروع ضخم تم اطلاقه بالتعاون مع شركة قوقل واليوتيوب لانشاء موقع الكتروني كامل تستطيع زيارة [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digitization of early Christian MSS in Middle Eastern monasteries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicle of Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digitization]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manuscripts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read entire article here.
A Benedictine monk, the Rev. Columba Stewart of St. John&#8217;s Abbey and University (College­ville, Minn.)&#8211;executive director of the abbey&#8217;s Hill Museum &#38; Manuscript Library, and a historian of the early monastic period&#8211;leads the museum&#8217;s ambitious and longstanding effort to find and digitize manuscripts held in monastic communities in the Middle East, Europe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rodgers (U. of Michigan) is 2009 Partington Award recipient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David H. Partington Award]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[the following press release has been abridged; the entire text can be read here]
CAMBRIDGE, MA (Nov. 20)–Amidst an audience of colleagues and well-wishers, Jonathan Rodgers, Head of the Near East Division at Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, received the 2009 David H. Partington Award. The award was presented at the 38th annual conference of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lalami on Moroccan bookstores and Caldwell&#8217;s &#8220;Reflections on the Revolution in Europe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/12/lalami-on-moroccan-bookstores-and-caldwells-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leila Lalami writes about one of her favorite bookstores in Rabat, with a nice photo of what real bookstores used to look like &#8211; and some still do:  http://lailalalami.com/2009/support-your-bookstore/
Also check out Lalami&#8217;s timely review of Christopher Caldwell&#8217;s book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, in the Dec. 14, 2009, issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;At-risk&#8221; websites for Arab human-rights organizations archived at University of Texas at Austin</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/12/at-risk-websites-for-arab-human-rights-organizations-archived-at-university-of-texas-at-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arab countries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI), a project of the University of Texas Libraries, has launched its website: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi
Among its resources, the website provides archived web sites of &#8220;at-risk&#8221; human-rights organizations in Arabic-speaking countries.  In addition, it highlights human rights related archival materials at UT, informs the public on HRDI’s current documentation partnerships, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFP: MELCOM International, April 2010</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/11/cfp-melcom-international-april-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/11/cfp-melcom-international-april-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline (end December 2009) for submitting paper proposals for the MELCOM conference in Cordoba, Spain, in April 2010 is fast approaching.
Further details about the conference&#8217;s themes &#038; instructions for where to send abstracts can be found here:
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/ext/melcomintl/melconfCordob10.shtml 
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		<title>Archaeologists publish first map of contested sites in Middle East</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/11/archaeologists-publish-first-map-of-contested-sites-in-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of archaeologists from UCLA, USC, Israel and Palestinian territories has developed the first map detailing Israeli archaeological activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem – much of it never publicly disclosed.]]></description>
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		<title>Hamdani&#8217;s &#8220;Between revolution and state,&#8221; review by M. St. Germain</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2009/11/hamdanis-between-revolution-and-state-review-by-m-st-germain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This work examines the most important works of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān, an influential Islamic theologian and jurist under the Fatimids. The introduction states that the author will examine the significance of the Fatimid revolution and state during its own time, based on already known sources.]]></description>
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