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About the Collections:
   Online Illustrated Guides
   The African Section
   The Hebraic Section
   The Near East Section


Research and Reference:
   Reference Assistance & Contacts
   Research a Country or Language
   Use the Reading Room
   Transliteration Tables

Internet Resources:
   Selected Internet Resources
   Portals to the World
   African and Middle Eastern Portals

Webcasts:
   
African Section
   
Hebraic Section
 
   Near East Section


Search our Databases:

   
LC Databases & E-Resources
   
LC On-line Catalogs

Overseas Offices:
   Cairo, Egypt
   Islamabad, Pakistan
   Jakarta, Indonesia
   Nairobi, Kenya
   New Delhi, India
   Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

From left: 18th century Middle East book binding; The Washington Haggadah; Kente Cloth
From left: 18th century Middle East book binding ; The Washington Haggadah; Kente Cloth


Of Special Interest:


Report of a Survey Tour
to Northern Nigeria
March, 2007

The Kirkor Minassian Cuneiform Tablet Collection

Leopold Sedar Senghor: Thinker, Statesman, Poet

Tour of Leopold Sedar Senghor Exhibit
in African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room

Islamic Manuscripts from Mali

The Library of Congress
Mission to Iraq

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101 Independence Ave. SE
Thomas Jefferson Building,LJ 220
Washington, D.C. 20540-4660
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African and Middle
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The African & Middle Eastern Reading Room is the primary public access point for materials housed in the the African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) which include a variety of vernacular scripts, such as Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and Yiddish. Covering more than 70 countries, from Morocco to Southern Africa to the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, the division's three sections--African, Hebraic, and Near East--offer in-depth reference assistance, provide substantive briefings on a wide range of subjects relating to these languages and cultures, produce guides to the Library's vast resources and cooperate in developing and preserving the Division's unparalleled collections.

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