This page contains guides and pathfinders that help users navigate the rich and diverse African, Jewish, and Middle Eastern collections housed at the Library of Congress. These include research guides to collections organized by language, and sub-collections grouped by format, subject, topic, historical period or acquisition source.
Research Guides
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Research GuideAfrican Children's Literature: An Introduction to the CODE Collection at the Library of Congress In 2006, the Canadian Organization for Development Through Education (CODE) donated a large collection of African children's books to the Library. This guide is an inventory for the collection, available in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room.- Date: 2019-06-26
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Research GuideAfrican, Jewish, and Middle Eastern Studies: Digital Resources at the Library of Congress This research guide provides a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, reference works, free and subscription databases, recorded programs and more, selected by curators in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.- Date: 2020-06-17
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Research GuideArab World Newspapers at the Library of Congress This research guide provides a comprehensive list of the newspaper titles published in the Arab World and diasporas. As important resources on Middle Eastern studies, most of these titles are accessible in the Library’s designated reading rooms.- Date: 2020-06-16
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Research GuideBamum Script: An African Writing System The Bamum people are an ethnic group in the Republic of Cameroon with a unique writing system developed by their scholar-king, Sultan Ibrahim Njoya in the late 1800s. This guide provides curated Library of Congress research resources on the Bamum script.- Date: 2021-05-18
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Research GuideEgypt: African and Middle Eastern Reading Room Country Guide This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching Egypt, including digitized primary source materials in a wide variety of formats, books and periodicals, online databases, and tips for searching.- Date: 2020-06-03
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Research GuideGuide to Ethiopian Newspaper Articles This bibliographic guide lists selected newspaper articles published between 1940s and 2000s available in the Ethiopian newspaper collection accessed in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room.- Date: 2019-08-13
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Research GuideHebrew Incunabula at the Library of Congress: A Short-Title List One of the crown jewels of the Library’s Hebraic collections, this set of thirty-seven Hebrew incunabula, or "cradle books" was printed in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula before the year 1501. This guide provides an inventory of these rare books.- Date: 2019-11-26
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Research GuideLakech Aklilu Jezequel Collection on Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti The items included in this collection were published predominantly in France in the 19th and 20th century and cover events and themes related to the Horn of Africa. This guide serves as a finding aid for the periodicals in this collection. It also offers several examples of press photos and postcards in the collection.- Date: 2024-07-11
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Research GuideOttoman Turkish Collections in the Library of Congress This African and Middle Eastern Reading Room research guide provides a selected inventory of the Library’s Ottoman Turkish Collections of manuscripts, books, periodicals, maps, photographs, videos, and other helpful resources.- Date: 2018-07-25
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Research GuideRare Illustrated Children's Books and Periodicals in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900-1929 at the Library of Congress This guide showcases the sixty titles in this unique collection available to researchers in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room. These little known materials reflect an era of unprecedented change in twentieth-century Jewish life and culture.- Date: 2021-09-24
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Research GuideSaudi Arabia: African and Middle Eastern Reading Room Country Guide This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for researching Saudi Arabia, including digitized primary source materials, books and periodicals, archival materials, online databases, and tips for searching.- Date: 2021-04-28
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Research GuideSixteenth-Century Hebrew Books at the Library of Congress The flowering of Hebrew printing across 16th-century Europe and the Ottoman Empire is amply illustrated on the shelves of the Hebraic Section in the Library of Congress. This online guide provides greater access to these books.- Date: 2020-01-07
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Research GuideSub-Saharan Africa Newspapers This guide provides an overview and listing of Sub-Saharan Africa newspapers available at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2023-07-26
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Research GuideThomas Kane Pamphlet Collection on Ethiopia/Eritrea at the Library of Congress This guide provides an inventory of the 1,095 pamphlets in the Thomas Kane collection. Researchers can request access to the pamphlets, paper presentations, and journal articles pertinent to the study of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. The pamphlets listed in this guide were collected as part of the private collection of Dr. Thomas Leiper Kane, a scholar and a linguist who spent close to…- Date: 2020-06-04