La joie et l’honneur d’avoir coordonné, sous la supervision du Ministre des Habous, l’écriture de l’ouvrage collectif introduisant ce magnifique fac-similé présenté à Sa Majesté ! Merci au Ministre et aux auteurs (Hiba Abid هبة عبيد, M. Maghraoui et F. Chiabotti) Je vous en reparle!

NYPL’s Hiba Abid هبة عبيد, Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, recently co-hosted an international workshop dedicated to the manuscript tradition of one of the most widely circulated Islamic devotional texts, the Dala'il al-Khayrat by al-Jazuli.

Hey, @nycmayor, it's not too late to save libraries! New Yorkers, we need your support calling for a reversal of $58.3 million in proposed cuts to NYC libraries before the budget hearing at City Hall tomorrow morning. Tell Mayor Adams: #NoCutsToLibraries on.nypl.org/4bKSvoZ

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Apply now for NYPL's new Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Fellowship, including a $25,000 stipend to support three months' research at the Library! shorturl.at/YR3i4

A phenomenal opportunity for #MiddleEastStudies scholars to make the most of NY Public Library’s collections. Fellowship applications are due by August 5.

Thank you Passerby Magazine for this intimate interview at home, and the chat about working at The New York Public Library, the traces of history left in manuscripts, and clubbing alone (listen to my playlist for passerby shorturl.at/5lPd4) passerbymagazine.com/profiles/hiba-…

Announcing the latest issue of MELA Notes - now available as an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal Browse the entire issue 96 2023 2024 escholarship.org/uc/melanotes/9… And the archive mela.us/publications/m… Gratitude to the contributors and editors Farshad Sonboldel / فرشاد سنبل‌دل and Hiba Abid هبة عبيد

wonderfully euradite & stimulating morning looking at manuscripts and thinking of relics, traces, and everything that is in-between. With the genius, formidable, and "very cool" as my students say, Hiba Abid Hiba Abid هبة عبيد

Announcing the MELA 2024 Book Awards! Winner: Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023) countryofwords.org Refqa Abu-Remaileh PalREAD - Country of Words #MELALibs2024

Elaine Mokhtefi in Conversation with Oliver Gloag: Algiers, the Third World Capital | The New York Public Library nypl.org/events/program…

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Join us Friday, February 21st at NY Public Library for an unmissable conversation between Elaine Mokhtefi and Oliver Gloag on Algiers, the Third World Capital!

On March 12, dive into Persia's founding epic, the 'Shahnameh,' with Hamid Rahmanian, a shadow puppet performance, and access to the Library's collections. Register now for the free event: on.nypl.org/3PWFW0S

Niyū Yūrk: Middle Eastern and North African Lives in the City to Open at the New York Public Library thecitylife.org/2025/08/19/niy… via City Life Org

🗽Niyū Yūrk, NYPL’s first-ever exhibition on Middle Eastern and North African immigration to New York City! 📅 Opening on October 4, 2025 & more soon!!!