{"id":1658,"date":"2026-02-24T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/?page_id=1658"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:15:24","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>: Exploring the Unpublished Archive of the Comit\u00e9 de Conservation des Monuments<\/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>: L.A. Stories: Engaging Muslim Communities in Southern California with Islamic Manuscripts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Badawi, Said<\/strong>: \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<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bauer, Brad<\/strong>: Is there a Place (and Space) for Archival Programs at Universities in the MENA Region?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Burak, Guy<\/strong>: Tracing and Collecting Publisher Catalogs from the Middle East<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cathelineau, Anne-Sylvie<\/strong>: Les collections arabes et h\u00e9bra\u00efques \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9preuve de la mutualisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dimashk, Ghada<\/strong>: The Upside-Down Archives World: Between Preservation and Destruction in Middle East Librarianship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>El-Kanj, Rania<\/strong>: From Beirut, a Renaissance: AUB and the Future of Nahda Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Elzalabany, Mohamed<\/strong>: Evaluating AI Prompting Approaches for Arabic Metadata Creation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Erdman, Michael<\/strong>: Completing the Circle: The Challenges and Opportunities of Creating a Handlist for the British Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Essam, Ola<\/strong>: WMF&#8217;s Library Physical &amp; Digital Collaborations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faghihi, Yasmin<\/strong>: Provenance Brings History to Life &#8211; The Private Collection of E.G. Browne at Cambridge University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Faragallah, Malak: <\/strong>The Collection of Coptic katameros (lectionnaries) in the French National Library<\/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>: From Shelves to Digital Portals: Cataloging, Data Quality, and User-Centered Library Services at ARCE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ganjavi, Mahdi<\/strong>: Critical AI Integration for Cataloging Marginalized Middle Eastern Histories<\/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>: Some Islamic Manuscripts of Central Asian Origin in U.S. Libraries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hayashi, Yuta<\/strong>: Preservation and Digitalization of Materials for Conflict Areas: A Case Study on Lebanese Maps in the Period Around Independence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kadic, Fatima<\/strong>: Middle East Book Collections in Bosnia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kalin, Cihan<\/strong>: \u0130bn\u00fclemin Mahmud Kemal \u0130nal and his Precious Collection<\/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>: The Ars\u00e8ne Roux Collection in Aix en Provence: From Codicology to HTR<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3, Joel<\/strong>: Three Swiss Architects in Afghanistan 1939-1945: Entangling an entangled history further through digitizing their visual legacies<\/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<\/strong>: Nizami Ganjah\u02bei Manuscripts Union Catalogue and Database (NGUC) Project<\/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; New Requirements for Manuscript Libraries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shafei, Yasmin<\/strong>: Historians at the Threshold: Archival Access and the Politics of Memory in Modern Egypt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shafy, Omayma<\/strong>: \u0623\u0631\u0634\u064a\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u062a\u0645\u0639: \u0625\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u062a\u0635\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0631\u0634\u064a\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u062e\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0628\u0647\u0646\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062d\u0641\u0627\u0638 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u0627\u062b \u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u0646\u0645\u0627\u0626\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u0631\u064a<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Urgola, Stephen<\/strong>: The Maktabat al-Khanji Collection: A Multi- and Intra- Institutional Collaboration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wiedemann, Felix<\/strong>: A Network-Focused Overview of MELCom Conference History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wittmann, Leo<\/strong>: Librarians on the Road: An Experience Report<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wondrich, Marina<\/strong>: Unifying a Dispersed Archive: The KCAC Archive and the Future of Kurdish Collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zohar, Ryan<\/strong>: Assessing the Value of Area Studies Print Resources in the Digital Age<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarivate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EBSCO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kezana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leila Books<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Libra Books &amp; Publishing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naseej<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>47th MELCom International Conference 2026, joint conference with MELA, Cairo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1658","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}