Welcome to the website of MELA‘s Committee on Cataloging (ConC). It is our mission to identify and consider cataloging issues, to make recommendations, to provide training and support via workshops and online documents, and to cooperate with other institutions and bodies on matters related to descriptive cataloging and subject cataloging, classification, and content designation of materials from and about the Middle East.

CURRENT MEMBERS

• Denise Soufi, dsoufi@email.unc.edu, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Nov. 2023-Nov. 2025; Chair)
• Amal Morsy, amors@loc.gov, Library of Congress (2023-Nov. 2024)
• Cyrus ZarGanj, cyrus.ford@unlv.edu, University of Nevada (Nov. 2021-Nov. 2024; Past Chair)
• Iman Dagher, idagher@library.ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles (Nov. 2023-Nov. 2025)
• Magda Gad, mgad@stanford.edu, Stanford University (Nov. 2022-June 2025; CC:AAM Liaison)
• Nora Avetyan, navetyan@library.ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles (Nov. 2023-Nov. 2025)
• Hassan Mortada, hm0012@princeton.edu, Princeton University (2024-Nov. 2025)