Past Conferences
Below you will find information concerning all the past conferences of MELCom International, since the very first one in 1979. Details regarding the programme have been provided whenever they were available at the time the website was created (in 2011).
For this, please click on the link.
More recent conferences list not only the programme but also the abstracts and some of the papers as they have been submitted by their authors (i.e. no editing has been done by MI). In some cases the Business meeting report as well as a picture or two have also been posted.
- 45th Conference – 2024 (London, UK)
- Date: 14th to 17th May 2024
- Organiser(s): Walid Ghali and Waseem Farooq
- Venue: Aga Khan Library London
- Programme
- Papers
- Reports
- 44th Conference – 2023 (Antalya, Turkey)
- Date: 25th to 27th April 2023
- Organiser(s): Tuba Akbaytürk
- Venue: Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED)
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 43rd Conference – 2022 (Marburg, Germany)
- Date: 17th to 19th May 2022
- Organiser(s): Susanne Saker
- Venue: University Library Marburg
- Programme
- Papers
- 42nd Conference – 2021 (Online)
- In 2020 the conference was cancelled due to the pandemic
- 41st Conference – 2019 (Napoli, Italy)
- Date: 18th to 20th June 2019
- Organiser(s): Michele Bernardini and Antonella Muratgia
- Venue : Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” and National Library of Naples “Vittorio Emanuele III”
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 40th Conference – 2018 (Budapest, Hungary)
- Date: 19th to 21st June 2018
- Organiser(s): Kinga Dévényi
- Venue : Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 39th Conference – 2017 (Cambridge, UK)
- Date: 3rd to 5th July 2017
- Organiser(s): Yasmin Faghihi
- Venue : Cambridge University Library
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 38th Conference – 2016 (Leiden, Netherlands)
- Date: 30th May to 1st June 2016
- Organiser(s): Birte Kristiansen, Arnoud Vrolijk
- Venue : Leiden University Library
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 37th Conference – 2015 (Constantine, Algeria)
- Date: 28th to 30th April 2015
- Organiser(s): Azzedine Bouderbane
- Venue: Université Abdelhamid Mehri – Constantine 2
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 36th Conference – 2014 (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Date: 26th to 28th May 2014
- Organiser(s): Zeren Tanındı, Ayşe Aldemir Kilercik
- Venue: Sakıp Sabancı Műzesi
- Programme
- Papers
- Report
- 35th Conference – 2013 (Moscow, Russia)
- Date: 27th to 29th May 2013
- Organiser(s): Ilya Zaytsev
- Venue: VGBIL Vserossiyskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka Inostrannoy Literatury
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 34th Conference – 2012 (Paris, France)
- Date: 4th to 6th June 2012
- Organiser(s): Farzaneh Zareie
- 33rd Conference – 2011 (Berlin, Germany)
- Date: 23rd to 25th May 2011
- Organiser(s): Christoph Rauch
- Venue: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- 32nd Conference – 2010 (Cordoba, Spain)
- Date: 19th to 21st April 2010
- Organiser(s): Nuria Torres Santo Domingo
- Venue: Centro de Documentación, Casa Árabe-Instituto Internacional de Estudios Árabes y del Mundo Musulmán
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- 31st Conference – 2009 (Kazan, Russia)
- Date: 22nd to 24th June 2009
- Organiser(s): Nuria Garaeva
- Venue: Kazan State University and N. Lobachevskiy’s Scientific Library
- Programme
- Papers
- 30th Conference – 2008 (Oxford, UK)
- Date: 23rd to 25th June 2008
- Organiser(s): Mastan Ebtehaj
- Venue: University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Middle East Centre
- Programme
- Papers and Abstracts
- Report
- 29th Conference – 2007 (Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- Date: 4th to 6th June 2007
- Organiser(s): Amina Rizvanbegović-Džuvić and Asim Zubcević
- Venue: Bošnjački institut – Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpašića
- Programme
- Papers
- Report
- 28th Conference – 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Date: 19th to 21st June 2006
- Organiser(s): Aylin Beşiryan, Sara Yontan Musnik
- Papers
- Report
- 27th Conference – 2005 (Alexandria, Egypt)
- Date: 23rd to 25th May 2005
- Organiser(s): Youssef Ziedan
- Venue: Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- Programme
- Papers
- 26th Conference – 2004 (Munich, Germany)
- Date: 24th to 26th May 2004
- Organiser(s): Helga Rebhahn
- Venue: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Programme
- Papers
- 25th Conference – 2003 (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Date: 26th to 28th May 2003
- Organiser(s): May Semaan Seigneurie, Dina el-Banna, Wolf-Dieter Lemke
- Venue: Bibliothèque orientale, Université St-Joseph
- Programme
- Report
- 24th Conference – 2002 (Paris, France)
- Date: 27th to 29th May 2002
- Organiser(s): Sara Yontan Musnik
- Venue: Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Programme
- Papers
- Report
- 1st Conference 1979 (Aix-en-Provence) – 23rd Conference 2001 (St. Petersburg)