Special Panel on the Special Section on Middle Eastern Archives: MELA 2024

Описание: Recorded at the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) annual meeting
Stanford University, November 9th, 2024

Special Section of American Archivist journal on Middle Eastern and North African Archives

During this panel, the guest editors and some contributing authors to the Fall/Winter 2023 (Volume 86, Issue 2) Special section on the Middle Eastern and North African Archives that appeared in the American Archivist Journal, will speak on the impetus behind the section and its importance. Authors will present on the content of their articles as well as the process of writing their article for the general public.

Sumayya Ahmed, BMRC at University of Chicago, Appreciating the Archives and Archival Thinking of the Middle East and North Africa & Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M University, Centering the Archives of the Middle East and North Africa

Alexis Braun Marks, Eastern Michigan University & Matthew Jaber Stier, Arab American National Museum (AANM), Locating Arab Americans in Greater Detroit: An Overview of MENA Archives in Southeast Michigan

Ryan Zohar, Georgetown University Beyond the Frame: Toward a Collection-Level Redescription of the Colbert Held Archive

Mahdi Ganjavi, University of Toronto, Activating Personal Counter-Archives: The Case of the Amir Hassanpour Fonds