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Category Archives: Thematic resources
New Digital Collection Documents 45 Years of AUC History
The American University in Cairo is pleased to announce the first installment of the AUC Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes digital collection, available in the Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library.
The American University in Cairo Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes digital collection primarily includes meeting agendas and minutes, as well as additional documentation such as budgets, correspondence, reports, and memoranda. The collection includes minutes ranging from the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of Cairo Christian University on November 30, 1914 to the American University at Cairo’s meeting on December 19, 1959.
This collection will continue to grow as minutes are digitized.
MeD-MeM: Mediterranean Memory
MeD-MeM: Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage
Initiated by Ina under the auspices of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators) at the request of the holders of audiovisual archives in the Mediterranean region, “Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem)” offers the general public some 4000 audiovisual documents from the countries in the Mediterranean area. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are accompanied by a trilingual documentary note (in French, English and Arabic).
Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme, Med-Mem strives to raise the profile of a common heritage, and underpins the drive to safeguard Mediterranean audiovisual archives.
The website is accessible to everyone free of charge. Enjoy!
Payam-i Pars
Payam-i Pars is a Journal in Persian published in Montreal. If its main focus is literature, it also deals with politics and society. And more interesting, it includes announcements for Iranian cultural events happening in Montreal. Check it out here!
Classical Persian Literature
Hi friends! A new online resource for classical Persian literature is now available for your perusal. The Text Archive of Persian Classical Literature is a project based in Osaka, Japan. Some of the notable texts available are the fable Kalilah wa Dimnah, Masnavi-ye ma’navi and the Samak-e ‘aiyar, a famous prose narrative whose only known manuscript exists in the Bodlein Library of Oxford University.
Enjoy!
Alexandria Bombardment of 1882 Photograph Album
The Alexandria Bombardment of 1882 Photograph Album digital collection was originally compiled by Italian photographer Luigi Fiorillo. This unique resource documents the British naval attack on ‘Urabi Pasha’s nationalists, who revolted against Taufik Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, from 1879 to 1882. Fiorillo’s fifty page album records damage to Alexandria’s neighborhoods, particularly the harbor and the fortress district. The images trace the development of episode from the arrival of the British fleet to the destruction of the emerging downtown district. Further, the photographs show the artillery and forts used by the resistance. The album also features portraits of the key players in the bombardment, including ‘Urabi Pasha, Khedive Taufik, Admiral Seymour, and Sir Wolseley.
Early European Books
Early European Books is a Proquest project in partnership with major European Libraries, such as the Royal Library of Copenhagen, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, and the Wellcome Library. Early European Books is issued as a series of annual collections, each offering access to the early printed books of one or more major libraries. These collections aim to form a seamless and increasingly comprehensive survey of printing in Europe to 1700.
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the Early European Books project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Early European Books is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials, and predominantly non-Anglophone collections have been made available for digital capture. The database includes a few titles of Avicenna, Ibn Zuhr and Abu al-Qasim al-Zaharawi, in Arabic, Latin translation or bilingual editions.
Early European Books offers full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts, providing scholars with a wealth of information about the physical characteristics and provenance histories of the original artefacts.
Detailed descriptive bibliographic metadata accompanies each set of facsimile Document Images to support browsing and searching. Users of Early European Books are also provided with functionality that allows them to pinpoint particular images containing manuscript annotation and various kinds of non-textual printed matter including illustrations and maps.
Early European Books is accessible to McGill users, through our database portal.
Primary sources for the history of the Middle East
Here is a list of Primary sources for the history of the Middle East available at McGill and on the web. Check it out!