Papers 2026

47th MELCom International Conference 2026, joint conference with MELA, Cairo

  • Abdel Rahman, Mohamed: Exploring the Unpublished Archive of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments
  • Andres, Amy: From Bill of Rights to Local Rights: Navigating Palestine Solidarity and DEI in an Academic Library
  • Baig, Sohaib: L.A. Stories: Engaging Muslim Communities in Southern California with Islamic Manuscripts
  • Badawi, Said: الذاكرة لفلسطين: رقمية أراشيف الرقمية الإنسانيات سياق في والمعرفة
  • Bauer, Brad: Is there a Place (and Space) for Archival Programs at Universities in the MENA Region?
  • Burak, Guy: Tracing and Collecting Publisher Catalogs from the Middle East
  • Cathelineau, Anne-Sylvie: Les collections arabes et hébraïques à l’épreuve de la mutualisation
  • Dimashk, Ghada: The Upside-Down Archives World: Between Preservation and Destruction in Middle East Librarianship
  • El-Kanj, Rania: From Beirut, a Renaissance: AUB and the Future of Nahda Studies
  • Elzalabany, Mohamed: Evaluating AI Prompting Approaches for Arabic Metadata Creation
  • Erdman, Michael: Completing the Circle: The Challenges and Opportunities of Creating a Handlist for the British Library
  • Essam, Ola: WMF’s Library Physical & Digital Collaborations
  • Faghihi, Yasmin: Provenance Brings History to Life – The Private Collection of E.G. Browne at Cambridge University
  • Faragallah, Malak: The Collection of Coptic katameros (lectionnaries) in the French National Library
  • Feodorov, Ioana: A Newly Discovered Mid-18th Century Arabic Printing Press at the Monastery of St Spyridon in Bucharest
  • Gamal, Amira: From Shelves to Digital Portals: Cataloging, Data Quality, and User-Centered Library Services at ARCE
  • Ganjavi, Mahdi: Critical AI Integration for Cataloging Marginalized Middle Eastern Histories
  • Ghali, Walid: An Egyptian Pioneer on Fatimid Studies and his Ambiguous Authority Record
  • Habibulla, Akram: Some Islamic Manuscripts of Central Asian Origin in U.S. Libraries
  • Hayashi, Yuta: Preservation and Digitalization of Materials for Conflict Areas: A Case Study on Lebanese Maps in the Period Around Independence
  • Kadic, Fatima: Middle East Book Collections in Bosnia
  • Kalin, Cihan: İbnülemin Mahmud Kemal İnal and his Precious Collection
  • Khan, Ahmad: The Challenges of Cataloguing and Metadata for Two Million Manuscripts
  • Langella, MariaLuisa: The Arsène Roux Collection in Aix en Provence: From Codicology to HTR
  • László, Joel: Three Swiss Architects in Afghanistan 1939-1945: Entangling an entangled history further through digitizing their visual legacies
  • Louis, Liya: AI-Driven Metadata: Solving Cataloguing Challenges in Diverse and Multilingual Collections Using GenAI
  • Magierski, Peter: Reuniting a Dispersed Legacy: The Said Nafisi Collection of Persian Lithographs
  • Mir-Ansari, Ali: Nizami Ganjahʾi Manuscripts Union Catalogue and Database (NGUC) Project
  • Nemr, Zeynab: Ecological Archivists of War: Community Documentation and the Preservation of Land Memory in the Levant
  • Osman, Rania: The Strategic Training needs of the Middle East Librarians in the AI Era
  • Rauch, Christoph: Material Analysis and Advanced Codicology – New Requirements for Manuscript Libraries
  • Shafei, Yasmin: Historians at the Threshold: Archival Access and the Politics of Memory in Modern Egypt
  • Shafy, Omayma: أرشيف المجتمع: إعادة تصور الأرشيف من خلال بهنا والحفاظ على التراث السينمائي المصري
  • Urgola, Stephen: The Maktabat al-Khanji Collection: A Multi- and Intra- Institutional Collaboration
  • Wiedemann, Felix: A Network-Focused Overview of MELCom Conference History
  • Wittmann, Leo: Librarians on the Road: An Experience Report
  • Wondrich, Marina: Unifying a Dispersed Archive: The KCAC Archive and the Future of Kurdish Collections
  • Zohar, Ryan: Assessing the Value of Area Studies Print Resources in the Digital Age
  • Clarivate
  • EBSCO
  • Kezana
  • Leila Books
  • Libra Books & Publishing
  • Naseej