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		<title>The Library of the Institut d’Egypte</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/12/the-library-of-the-institut-d%e2%80%99egypte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   To whom it may concern      
From:   Dr. Jere L. Bacharach
                Former Director, American Research Center in Egypt
              [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orient Institute of Beirut marks 50th birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Star
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		<title>Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arts in Turkey: How ancient became modern. By Arnold Reisman. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2009. Pp. xvii, 165, with col. illustrations; includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 143920537X.
Post-Ottoman Turkey: Classical music and opera. By Arnold Reisman. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2009. Pp.147, with illustrations; includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 1439205388.
These two books form a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/11/138/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The politics of women’s rights in Iran. By Arzoo Osanloo. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. xix, 258, with appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 978-0-691-13546-5 (hardcover), 978-0-691-13547-2 (paperback).
This book is the product of a project Arzoo Osanloo conducted focusing on women’s rights in their daily lives in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic manuscript tradition: Ten centuries of book arts in Indiana University collections. Edited by Christiane Gruber. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii, 281, with illustrations and maps. ISBN: 9780253353771.
All books before the invention of the printing press were copied by hand and the book-making process, including binding and designing, was entirely manual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/11/132/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prophet’s ascension: Cross-cultural encounters with the Islamic miʿrāj tales. Edited by Christian Gruber and Frederick Colby. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. 440, with bibliographical references and index. $59.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780253353610.
This book grew out of two panel discussions, one at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Name authorities in the news</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/02/name-authorities-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarians are all too familiar with the profusion of guises in which the name of Libyan dictator &#8212; معمر القذافي in Arabic &#8212; may be encountered in the Latin alphabet.  For the rest of the public out there it&#8217;s a mystery that still requires explanation:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2011/0222/Gaddafi-Kadafi-Qaddafi-What-s-the-correct-spelling 
http://www.businessinsider.com/qaddafi-gaddafi-kadafi-qadaffi-libya-spelling-2011-2 
As Col. Q has been much in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protester and supporters uniting to protect the Bibliotheca Alexandrina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Protesters and Supporters join hands to protect The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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		<title>The Egyptian Constitutional Question</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/02/the-egyptian-constitutional-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis from Foreign Policy magazine on avenues for Presidention succession in the Egyptian Constitution.
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/03/the_egyptian_constitution_s_rulebook_for_change
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		<title>Mubarak&#8217;s speech</title>
		<link>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/02/text-of-mubaraks-speech-via-reuters/</link>
		<comments>http://mela.us/mela_notepad/2011/02/text-of-mubaraks-speech-via-reuters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melausaa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Text of Speech via Reuters
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