{"id":1603,"date":"2025-08-25T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:33:09","slug":"cfp-mela-melcom-international-joint-annual-conference-in-cairo-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/cfp-mela-melcom-international-joint-annual-conference-in-cairo-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"47th Conference in Cairo 2026 &#8211; First Joint MELA\/MELCom International Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) and MELCom International held a <em>joint conference<\/em> in 2026. The event took take place over three days \u2014 <em>Sunday 25 January to Tuesday 27 January 2026<\/em> \u2014 at the <em>American University in Cairo, Egypt<\/em>. Click here to read more.<\/summary>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of the conference was<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reflecting on Our Past, Charting Our Future: Middle East Librarianship in Transition<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proposals were accepted for papers addressing one or more of the<br>following themes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Historical perspectives on Middle East librarianship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolution of collection development practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital humanities and Middle Eastern studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preservation of rare materials and manuscripts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Challenges in cataloguing and metadata for multilingual collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Impact of political events on collecting and access<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaborative initiatives across institutions and borders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emerging technologies and their application in Middle Eastern<br>collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Training the next generation of Middle East librarians<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community engagement and outreach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Submission Guidelines<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abstracts between <em>250\u2013300 words<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Submissions accepted in <em>English, Arabic, or French<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presentations (in English, Arabic, or French) up to <em>20 minutes<\/em> in<br>length, followed by <em>10 minutes<\/em> for discussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proposals for <em>full panels<\/em> (3\u20134 papers) welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference website: <em>AUC MElibraries<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/aucevents-melibraries.vfairs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/aucevents-melibraries.vfairs.com\/<\/a><br><em>Deadline for submissions:<\/em> 26 September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizing committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dale Correa<\/strong>, MELA Vice President\/Program Chair 2024-2025, The University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andreas Drechsler<\/strong>, MELCom International President, Universit\u00e4t Bamberg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Walid Ghali<\/strong>, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Kopycki<\/strong>, MELA Secretary-Treasurer, Library of Congress, Nairobi Overseas Office<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mark Muehlhaeusler<\/strong>, Local Convenor, The American University in Cairo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wassilena Sekulova<\/strong>, MELCom International Secretary, Oxford University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rustin Zarkar<\/strong>, Library of Congress, Cairo Overseas Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,14,13,12,16],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-15","tag-cairo","tag-call-for-papers","tag-cfp","tag-mela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}