{"id":1658,"date":"2026-02-24T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/?page_id=1658"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:21:07","slug":"papers-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/papers-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo-1024x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo-1024x348.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo-1536x522.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MI_2026_Cairo_group_photo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>47th MELCom International Conference 2026, joint conference with MELA, Cairo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"background-color:#efebeb\" class=\"wp-block-list has-background\">\n<li><strong>Abdel Rahman, Mohamed<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_09_Mohamed_Abdel_Rahman_-_Exploring_Archive_Comite_Conservation_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exploring the Unpublished Archive of the Comit\u00e9 de Conservation des Monuments<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andres, Amy<\/strong>: From Bill of Rights to Local Rights: Navigating Palestine Solidarity and DEI in an Academic Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Baig, Sohaib<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_16_Sohaib_Baig_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">L.A. Stories: Engaging Muslim Communities in Southern California with Islamic Manuscripts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Badawi, Said<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_29_Said_Badawi_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0627\u0643\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646: \u0631\u0642\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0623\u0631\u0627\u0634\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0646\u0633\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0633\u064a\u0627\u0642 \u0641\u064a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0631\u0641\u0629<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bauer, Brad<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_38_Brad_Bauer_final_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is there a Place (and Space) for Archival Programs at Universities in the MENA Region?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Burak, Guy<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_22_Burak-presentation_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tracing and Collecting Publisher Catalogs from the Middle East<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cathelineau, Anne-Sylvie<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_27_Cathelineau_Affiche-A-voix-haute-litterature-et-traduction_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Les collections arabes et h\u00e9bra\u00efques \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9preuve de la mutualisation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dimashk, Ghada<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_37_Ghada-Dimashk-The-Upside-Down-Archives-World.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Upside-Down Archives World: Between Preservation and Destruction in Middle East Librarianship<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>El-Kanj, Rania<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_10_El_Kanj_A-lNahda_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">From Beirut, a Renaissance: AUB and the Future of Nahda Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Elzalabany, Mohamed<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_34_El_Zalabany_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evaluating AI Prompting Approaches for Arabic Metadata Creation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Erdman, Michael<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_20_Michael_Erdman_Final_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Completing the Circle: The Challenges and Opportunities of Creating a Handlist for the British Library<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Essam, Ola<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_02_Ola_Essam_Nahla_El_Haddad_-_WMF-Library_s_Physical__Digital_Collaborations.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WMF&#8217;s Library Physical &amp; Digital Collaborations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faghihi, Yasmin<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_30_Yasmin_Faghihi_Provenance_egb_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Provenance Brings History to Life &#8211; The Private Collection of E.G. Browne at Cambridge University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faragallah, Malak: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_04_Faragallah-Desclaux_MELACOM2026_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Collection of Coptic katameros (lectionnaries) in the French National Library<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Feodorov, Ioana<\/strong>: A Newly Discovered Mid-18th Century Arabic Printing Press at the Monastery of St Spyridon in Bucharest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gamal, Amira<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_25_Gamal_-_ARCE-Library-Digital-Transformation_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">From Shelves to Digital Portals: Cataloging, Data Quality, and User-Centered Library Services at ARCE<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ganjavi, Mahdi<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_32_MahdiGanjavi_Final_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Critical AI Integration for Cataloging Marginalized Middle Eastern Histories<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ghali, Walid<\/strong>: An Egyptian Pioneer on Fatimid Studies and his Ambiguous Authority Record<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Habibulla, Akram<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_07_Akram_Habibullah_-_US_Libraries_Islamic_Manuscripts_of_Central_Asian_Origin.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Some Islamic Manuscripts of Central Asian Origin in U.S. Libraries<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hayashi, Yuta<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_14_YutaHayashiMikiNose_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Preservation and Digitalization of Materials for Conflict Areas: A Case Study on Lebanese Maps in the Period Around Independence<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kadic, Fatima<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_12_Kadic_Fatima_Final_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Middle East Book Collections in Bosnia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kalin, Cihan<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_04_Cihan-Kalin_Final_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0130bn\u00fclemin Mahmud Kemal \u0130nal and his Precious Collection<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Khan, Ahmad<\/strong>: The Challenges of Cataloguing and Metadata for Two Million Manuscripts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Langella, MariaLuisa<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_31_MariaLuisaLangella_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ars\u00e8ne Roux Collection in Aix en Provence: From Codicology to HTR<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3, Joel<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_06_Joel_Laszlo_-_Afghanistan-in-the-1940s-in-the-Eyes-of-3-Swiss-Architecs_compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Three Swiss Architects in Afghanistan 1939-1945: Entangling an entangled history further through digitizing their visual legacies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Louis, Liya<\/strong>: AI-Driven Metadata: Solving Cataloguing Challenges in Diverse and Multilingual Collections Using GenAI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Magierski, Peter<\/strong>: Reuniting a Dispersed Legacy: The Said Nafisi Collection of Persian Lithographs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mir-Ansari, Ali and Mohammad Emami<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MI_2026_03_Mohammad-Emami_Final-compressed.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nizami Ganjah\u02bei Manuscripts Union Catalogue and Database (NGUC) Project<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nemr, Zeynab<\/strong>: Ecological Archivists of War: Community Documentation and the Preservation of Land Memory in the Levant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Osman, Rania<\/strong>: The Strategic Training needs of the Middle East Librarians in the AI Era<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rauch, Christoph<\/strong>: Material Analysis and Advanced Codicology &#8211; 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