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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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Thomas Jefferson Building,LJ 220
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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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