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    <title>Middle East and North African Studies (MENA)</title>
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      <title>Purchase recommendation</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You can suggest items that the Library should consider purchasing. Use the &lt;a href=&quot;../../../cgi-bin/purchrecommend.cgi&quot;&gt;Purchase Recommendation&lt;/a&gt; form to submit your suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:02:18 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Qur'anic Blessing.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Bahia Palace Marrakech Koranic Blessing.&quot; src=&quot;http://moroccotravelblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bahia-palace-marrakech-2-arabic-writing-koran-blessing.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bahia Palace Marrakech (Morocco)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:14:12 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>About MENA Collection</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Middle Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary field with the majority of courses offered in the &lt;a title=&quot;NES &quot; href=&quot;http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/&quot;&gt;Department of Near Eastern Studies &lt;/a&gt;(NES) and the&lt;a title=&quot;CMESD&quot; href=&quot;http://cmes.berkeley.edu/&quot;&gt; Center for Middle Eastern Studies&lt;/a&gt; (CMES). NES offers courses in languages and civilizations of the modern Middle East and North Africa. Courses related to the Middle East and North Africa are also offered in many other departments on Campus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be able to locate materials in Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, please follow the guideline set by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html&quot;&gt;ALA-LC Romanization Tables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:45:54 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Persian Miniature Art</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Persian Miniature Art&quot; src=&quot;../../../photos/photos/original/khamseh_shirazschool.jpg?1331160034khamseh_shirazschool.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Khamseh Nezami&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shiraz School&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From a 15th century manuscript at the British Museum&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:42:16 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Core Databases</title>
      <description></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:53:13 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Other Useful Databases</title>
      <description></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:57:32 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>E-Books</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:41:29 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul (Calligraphy)&lt;span style=&quot;border-width: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #474534; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f2efe8;&quot;&gt;Published&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-width: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #474534; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f2efe8;&quot;&gt;&lt;abbr style=&quot;border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-bottom: 1px dotted #666666;&quot; title=&quot;2:17 pm&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul &amp;ndash; Turkey&quot; src=&quot;../../../photos/photos/original/sultan-ahmed-mosque-in-istanbul-turkey-calligraphy.jpg?1330978519sultan-ahmed-mosque-in-istanbul-turkey-calligraphy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #474534; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f2efe8; display: inline ! important; float: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #474534; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f2efe8; display: inline ! important; float: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt; Published in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;border-width: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #da0a0a; text-decoration: underline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #f2efe8;&quot; title=&quot;Return to Islamic Architecture Around the World&amp;nbsp;4&quot; rel=&quot;gallery&quot; href=&quot;http://karim74.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/islamic-architecture-around-the-world-4/&quot;&gt;Islamic Architecture Around the World&amp;nbsp;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:17:40 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>E-Reference</title>
      <description></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:10:44 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>The Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;The Citadel, Cairo&quot; src=&quot;../../../photos/photos/original/The_Citadel_Cairo.jpg?1331160336The_Citadel_Cairo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interior of&amp;nbsp; Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Saladin Citadel of Cairo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:56:07 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Dictionaries</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A short selection of dictionaries&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:10:06 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Encyclopedias and Atlases </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This list contains a short selection of reference sources.&amp;nbsp; Please check our catalog for more sources.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:41:52 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Web Sources</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Open Source materials:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;AMIR&quot; href=&quot;http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Iran Human Rights Documentation Center&quot; href=&quot;http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/&quot;&gt;Iran Human Rights Documentation Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #888888;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;</description>
      <author></author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:02:31 -0700</pubDate>
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