Guides
Written introductions to particular strengths of the collection. Each guide describes selected titles, why they matter, and where to find them on the shelf.
Guides are written by the center's catalogers as material is processed, and are added to over time. For everything cataloged to date, search the catalog.
Serials and periodicals
Journals and serial publications from the United States, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine, several of them held nowhere else in the country.
Journalism in the Arab world
Arabic-language works on the history of the press, from the nineteenth-century Egyptian and Lebanese papers to the Nasser era.
Women in the Arab world
Writing by and about women across the region — memoir, activism, literary criticism, and social research.