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Friday, September 21, 2012

The Near East Section
African and Middle Eastern Division
 The Library of Congress
invites you to a presentation

"Who are the Copts?"

with
Guest Speaker

Bishop Angaelos
General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church, United Kingdom
image: Bishop Angaelos

Free and Open to the Public

Friday, September 21, 2012
12 Noon - 1:00 PM
The African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room
LJ-220 Thomas Jefferson Building
10 First St. SE
Washington, DC 20540

For additional information contact:
Fawzi Tadros (202) 707 - 7311

Please allow time to clear security
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362
 (Voice/TTY) or email Ada @ loc.gov
                   


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division
The Library of Congress

Africans, African-Americans and Germany
The Pluralistic and Multifaceted Presence of Africa in Germany

with
Visiting Fulbright Scholar
Magu
éye Kassé
Associate Professor of German Literature and Language
Cheikh Anta Diop University – Dakar, Senegal

image: Maguéye Kassé

Free and Open to the Public

Wednesday, September 26, 2012
12 Noon – 1:00 P.M.
The African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Room
LJ-220 Thomas Jefferson Building
10 First St. S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540

For additional information contact:
Angel Batiste (202) 707 - 1980

Please allow time to clear security
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362
 (Voice/TTY) or email Ada @ loc.gov
 


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Near East Section
African and Middle Eastern Division
 The Library of Congress
presents

Resurrecting the Ancient Library of Alexandria:
A Mega Project of Major Cultural and Historical Significance
by

 

image: Drawing of imagined library image: Hassan M. Eltaher
Students and scholars
in the imagined library
Hassan M. Eltaher, BA, MBA
Adjunct Lecturer,
Canadian Foreign Service Institute

Free and Open to the Public

Tuesday October 2, 2012
12 noon to 1:00 p.m.
African & Middle Eastern Reading Room
Room LJ-220
Thomas Jefferson Building,
10 First Street, S.E.
Washington DC 20540

For additional information contact:
Nawal Kawar (202) 707 - 4708

Please allow time to clear security
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362
 (Voice/TTY) or email Ada @ loc.gov
     


Upcoming Exhibition
October 25, 2012 through March 16, 2012

“Words Like Sapphires:
100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress”
Opens Oct. 25

image: Words like Sapphires logo

The Library is celebrating the centennial of its Hebraic Collection with an exhibition titled “Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912-2012.” The exhibition will be on view 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, from Oct. 25, 2012, through March 16, 2013, in the South Gallery of the Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.


Past Events:
2012

 

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress
invited you to a lecture and book signing by Hanan  K.  Munayyer,
President, Palestinian Heritage Foundation And author, researcher and lecturer on Palestinian textile arts for over 20 years
The Origins of Traditional Palestinian Costumes and Embroidery

September 6-7, 2012
The American Folklife Center in collaboration with the Hebraic Section of the
African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress presented a Symposium
The Stations That Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish American Cultural Renaissance

Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress
presented as part of the new lecture series "Highlights from the Collections of the African and Middle Eastern Division"
The Growth of a Squiggly Letter Language Collection: Armenian at the Library of Congress
A Talk by Levon Avdoyan Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist

Tuesday, August 21, 2012
As the start of a new lecture series, "Highlights from the Collections
of the African and Middle Eastern Division"

Ann Brener, Area Specialist for the Hebraic Section presented a lecture
"From Spanish Court to Ottoman Palace: Sixteenth Century Hebrew Books at the Library of Congress.

Thursday, July 19, 2012
The Near East Section of the The African Middle Eastern Division, The Library Of Congress
invited you to a lecture and book signing by Dr. Mehdi Aminrazavi,
Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mary Washington
"Reading Omar Khayyam's Ruba'iyyat within Their Historical Context”
View a Webcast of this Program

Monday, June 25, 2012
The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress
presented Professor Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Professor of Bible and Near Eastern Studies,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, on the subject of:
Heaven on Earth: A Tour of Solomon’s Temple Through Ancient Near Eastern Eyes
View a Webcast of this Program

Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division,and the Kluge Center
of The Library of Congress, and The Zaidan Foundation presented a Symposium.
Jurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature
View a Webcast of this Program (Morning Session)
View a Webcast of this Program (Afternoon Session)

Thursday, May 24, 2012
The African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
invited you to a Lecture by Professor Antoinette Tidjani Alou
The Secret Faces of Women from the Nigerien Sahel:
Agency, Influence and  Contemporary Challenges

View a Webcast of this Program

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The African Section of The African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress
invited you to a talk "Living Treasures: African Elephants and Shared Responsibilities" by
Julius Kipng'etich, Director of the Kenya Wildlife Service
View a Webcast of this Program

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Near East Section of The African Middle Eastern Division At The Library Of Congress
invited you to an AMED Spring Nowruz Series Lecture by Jane Lewisohn,
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Speaking on the Golha Project
View a Webcast of this Program

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress
invited you to a presentation by Guest Speaker Dr. Wagdi Zeid,
Professor of Drama and Playwright, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
presenting The Last Pharaoh: a Dream for the World
View a Webcast of this Program

Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
invited you to a presentation by documentary filmaker Tewodros Fekadu
"No One's Son"
View a Webcast of this Program

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
In Celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, The Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division,
The Library of Congress presented a lecture by Edna Nahshon, Professor of Hebrew and Theater at
The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, and editor of the newly published book of collected essays:
Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context
View a Webcast of this Program

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series
The Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division and Poetry and Literature Center
in partnership with The Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa
invited you to a Reading and Book Signing with Award-winning Nigerian Novelist Helon Habila
The author will read excerpts from his novel “Oil On Water” and discuss his new anthology
"The Granta Book of the African Short Story"
View a Webcast of this Program

Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division and the European Division, Library of Congress
presented Author Mark Klempner discussing his new book
The Heart has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and their Stories of Courage
View a Webcast of this Program

Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, the Library of Congress
invited you to The 16th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture and The opening of the exhibition
"To Know Wisdom and Instruction: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress"
and a presentation by Kevork Bardakjian of the University of Michigan, Scribes, Compositors and the Mind in the Making:
the Armenian Script and the Creation of an Armenian Literary Identity

and Levon Avdoyan of the Library of Congress, The Continuity and Change of an Armenian
Identity in the Digital Age

View a Webcast of this Program

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division and
The European Division, The Library of Congress
presented Professor Daniel B. Schwartz, George Washington University
discussing his new book, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
View a Webcast of this Program

Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Near East Section of The African Middle Eastern Division at The Library Of Congress
invited you to a lecture and book signing as part of the AMED Annual Nowruz Events Series,
Dr. Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of Middle Eastern History, The University of Delaware
spoke on his new book Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
View a Webcast of this Program

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The African & Middle Eastern Division, The Hispanic Division and the Poetry & Literature Center,
Library of Congress and the Africa Society for the National Summit on Africa and Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain
presented prominent writer and journalist from the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Donato Ndongo
as part of the Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series
View a Webcast of this Program

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The African & Middle Eastern Division , The Poetry & Literature Center, Library of Congress
and the Africa Society for the National Summit on Africa presented Poet Laureate of the Republic
of South Africa, Keorapetse Kgositsile as part of the
Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series
View a Webcast of this Program

March 27, 2012
In Celebration of Women’s History Month 2012, The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division,
The Library of Congress presented A Concert of Ladino Music: with Flory Jagoda
In Performance with Tiffani Ferrantelli and Zhenya Tochenaya

View a Webcast of this Program

March 22, 2012
The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, The Library of Congress
invited you to a presentation by Visiting Professor Hailu Habtu, African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
A Momentous One Hundred Years, Ancient Ethiopia: 520-620 A.D.
View a Webcast of this Program

March 21, 2012
The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division
and The Law Library, Library of Congress invited you to a presentation by
Professor Katherine Aron-Beller about her new book
Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598 - 1638
View a Webcast of this Program

March 6, 2012
In Celebration of Women's History Month 2012
The Hebraic section, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress presented :
In the Classical Mode: Israeli Women Composers, Shulamit Ran, Betty Olivero and Chaya Czernowin
by Ronit Seter
View a Webcast of this Program

February 29, 2012
The Africa Globalism Committee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the African and Middle East Division of Library of Congress held a special screening of the movie “BLACK NOVEMBER: THE STRUGGLE OF THE NIGER DELTA.”
This two hour feature film is the work of Nigerian born Film Maker M. Jeta Amata.

February 28, 2012
A program to celebrate African American History Month
sponsored by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division
The African and Middle Eastern Division and Humanties and Social Sciences Division
A Preview of a Documentary Film in Process "The Rosenwald Schools"
by the documentary film maker Aviva Kempner.

February 28, 2012
In honor of African American History Month, The African Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
invited you to a lecture"Growing Up Gullah" South Carolina\Maryland
with guest lecturer Dorothy Browner-Hubler
View a Webcast of this Program

February 16, 2012
The Humanities and Social Studies Division and the African and Middle Eastern Division
of the Library of Congress presented a book talk by Author Jonathan Lyons on his new book,
"Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism"
View a Webcast of this Program



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