MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

NUMBER 47

Editor .. ., Note

ASSOClA'I ION NEWS Fr°"' ttHt President

TAOLE OF CONTENTS

Librarian of Congress responds to HELA

GENERAL NEWS Future Conferences

Electronic Addr11sses

ARTICLES h1la111 in Canada

by Salwa Ferahian

Iraq-Iran Wart a Bibliographical Project by J. Anthony Gardner

Conte111porary Pt!r11ian Press in E1till! by Hasan Javadi and Abazar Sepehri

A Lone Bibliographer at her PC by Priscilla H. Ro~rts

SPRING, 1989

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Increa sing Productivity and Public Satisfaction with Middle East and Judaic Library Services through Use of a Personal Co111puter

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BOO!< REVIEW !!I.~irat al-ma•3rif Ta~hayyu~

reviewed by Abaiar Sepehri

POSITIONS AVAILABLE Princeton Univers ity Sultan Daboos University University of Chicago

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MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

EDWARD A. JAJKO Moover Ins ti tut ion

MEAYLE GASTON NeH York University

JAMES WEINBERGER P~inceta11 ~liver·sity

BRENDA E. BICKETT Georgetown University

PresidP-nt 1989

Vice-P r esident & Progral'I Chair 1?89

Secretary-' Treasurer 1987- 1989

Editor 1900-1990

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MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

NUMBER 47

Editor · g Note

ASSOCIATION NEWS Fro• the Pre9ident

TASl.E OF CDNfENTS

Librarian of Congress responds to MELA

GENERAL NEWS Future Conferenceg

Electronic Addresses

ARTICLES Isla• in Canada

by Salwa Ferahian

lr·aq-lran War: • Bibliographical Project by J. Anthony Gardner

Conte•porary Persian Press in EKile by ftasan Javadi and Abaz.ar SepiPhri

A Lone Biblio9rapher at her PC by Priscilla H. Roberts

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BOOK REVIEW . Davirat al - •a•irif T.a~hayyu'

revieNe d by Abazar Sepahri

POSITIONS AVAILABLE Princeton University Sultan Qaboos University University of Chicago

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FflON IUE EI) I HJR

Many o1 our'" members l 1st no orqan1 zat1onc1 l at f LI 1 ~l ,,,, , 111 tlH:? l"lembersh1p Roster- entrtes. lt seems tt·1al this would LH? u~;C?ftd,

pa,-l1cul.arly it ane l5 look1nq for an unknown naine at a spec1f1c: 1nst1tut1on. The 1hembersh1p list ha~ previously bee1\ used pr-1mdr'"llY tor in~il1nq pur-po'5e'S, but, with ttle wonders ot word processi.ng, .it 15 no lonqer necess•rv to restrict our-selves to this. If you would like to include your position and organization 1n your 11st1ng. pledse send me the correct 1nformat1on~ dlonq with any other correct1cns. Electronic addresses are also welcome.

Response to requests for contributions to l'!l;J,,£1 .. ~NgJ:~~~ has been eHcel l~nt. ~tawever, do not hesitate to 5end me your news. artlcles and thou9hts1 please limit your musings ta library-related matters. Longer issues can certainly be explored. Hopefully. this also 1nd1cates that a more substantial publication, such as Ed Ja1ko s sugges tlon for a Jill!Cnal..__g_f__M_!.~£1..l.g_.£.i!.il . .h!fil~ll!l.2.!l!..P.· c:ou l d be undertaken, I would be interested in your thoughts an a Journal, as well as a demonstration of support tor such a oubl1cation.

Contributions Due to space llmi ta t1ons, ,.r tic Jes should be not loflger than 7 double-spaced pages, although longer works will be considered. Boak reviews uf reference works should be no lonqer tt1an 50u-l~U wards~ Alt contr1but1ons ~hould be complete and reddv for oubl1cat1on in a standard format, w1th footnotes clearly indicated. Contributions 1n WordPerfect can be sent on a 5-J/4" f loppv diskette·.

~ELA natg~ is issued three times a year {Winter, Spring, and Fal ll. Contributions should be received by January for the Winter issue. April for the Spring i ssue, and August tor the Fall issue. Please be sure to send all meeting notices well in ~dvance sa that members can be informed in a timely fashion.

MELA Notes 47, Sprtng 1909

l'ESSAGE FROl1 THE PRESIDENT

:Zb May 1989

Because of a miM-up tn communications, the last issue of ~~\..B..llQ!.£.!. (no. 4b, Winter 1909) included the tlPMt of my letter. to the Librarian of Congress, written on behalf of and at the direction of the MELA membership, but not Dr. Billington·s reply. His letter ifi reprinted in this i•sue, tor the benefit of a 11 MELA memberll , on whose behalf and at whose direction it was writt•n.

h•ve had no further correspondtmce with Dr. 8 ii ling t on or the Library of Congre..,; , I h•v• bl!'an told that tha HELA letter to Dr. Billington ha" generated "ome comm1mt and controversy. One LC staff member telephoned me about my lett•r. We had a v•ry long conversation that was illuminating and, in diplomatic terms, frank, cordial, friendly and constructive. The conversation started out on a wary note but concludl!'d in a v ery friendl y fashion. 1 c ertainly l•arned more about t he problems that impl!'de operations at LC.

The letter had one totally unforese•n result, r•ported by one of our coll•agues, who informed me that his administration has seized on th• eMa~pl•s of high stati,.tics cited in the l•tter as a way of criticiting his cataloging output. I would nev•r have thought of •uch a poss)bility, and am bothered by and d••PlY regret what i s tantamount to a delib•rat• misuse of the information in the letter. I am also very surprised that non- specialist library admin is trators read MELA Notes, or •I•• that sor1uo tal•-b•arin9 busybody would brinQ the lett•r to their att•ntion in order to discr•dit someon• els•; which is c•rt•inly shameful dirty dealing,

Wh•n we discus,.ed th• l•tter to LC in Los Ang•l•s, HELA m•mbers had various sugQ••tions for h•lping LC improve cataloging output. If w• ar• sincer• in our critici,.ms of the pres•nt system at LC and its results, and want to do somathinQ about it, it is important that w• pr••• LC to do what it •hould. On• l•tt•r of criticism, rec•iving a less than enthusiastic response f rom th• Librarian of Con9ress, who has mOr• important thinQ• on his mi nd than a tiny, disor9anizad constituency of Middle East specialists, won ' t do the Job. We n••d to or9aniz• a plan for d••ling with th• cat•loging probl•m, pr•sent it to LC, and lobby for it activ•ly and strongly . I ha v• b••n thinking about such a plan, and try ing to figure out how it could work.

With regard to our all working to9eth•r, in the last MELA Notes 1 called on MELA m•mbers to form sp•cial inter••t groups and to l•t me know what they are int•rested in doin9. Th• r•sponse to that call has b••n absolut•ly z•ro. As is noted above, somebody read the last issue. But no on• r•sponded to my call.

OK, so ma ybe you · re not intenrs t e d in joining another Spec1•l Interest Group. But you are int•rest•d in doing i;omething about you r intractable cataloging backlog, •nd about gettinQ mo r e c ataloginQ copy from the Lib rary of Con9ress. Now is the time to send your sugg•stions to Lucia Rath•r (with a copy tom•, p lease), or, better, to send them to me so that I can collate and organ ize them and present them to Mrs. Rather as an official statement of the Middl• Eas t Librarians Association.

Edward Jajko Pres i d•nt, HELA

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LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS RESPONDS TO MELA PRESIDENT'S LETTER

2 Februar •, 1989

Dear Mr. JaJ ko,

I n your letter o f 9 December 1988 you expressed concern o ver t he low cataloqtng output of the Library of Congress in Arabtc, Per s ian and Turku•h. I am well aware of this problem and share your concern, I want to assur" vou that we take verv serious 1 ·, ou r responsibility for contributing to Middle Eastern librar1an s h10 and scholarship and intend to fulfill that respons1bi11ty a!I well as our resources will allow.

I am pleased to inform you that the prospects for improved output in al I three languao;;ie" are favorable . The dee! ine of ca.taloqinq in Arabic and Persian in the recent past was primarll v due to a shor tage of quallfi"d staff coupled with a hiring freeze which p r e vented recruitment of new personnel with the necessary language skill s . At present, however, staff i ng tor Arabic and Pers i an has improved, with two additional catalogers hired late in 1986 now at a lull level of profi c iency, Our anticipated output for FYB9 is 2, 000 i terns In Arabi c and 2:5.0 in Persian. In Turkish, though we ha ve not increased our staffing, we ar• nev•rth•less proJ .. ctinq an increase of output to BOO items in FVB9.

In the longer term, the most important development is our effort to enhance the catalog i ng operations in our overseas offices . Our goal is to develop the cataloging •Kper~i •• in these off ices t o the point that their staffs can produc• full-level bibliogr aphic records whic:h are l!Qua I in qu.al i ty to those produced b y our Washington staff, Furthermore, we plan to enable these offi c es to produce their records in machine-readable form so that re - keying ot cataloging data ln Washington will be unnec•ssary. This effort is •Kpected to incl"ease subst•ntial ly our ability to provida bibliographic control over the receipts of the overseas offices by .allowing us to utilize more fully than is pres•ntly the case th• linguistic eKp•rtise .available in the countries where th• offices ar• located and by eliminating certain duplication of effort which is pres11ntly a f•atur• of the processing workflow for o verseas off ice acquisitions . New Delhi was th• first ov erseas off ice in which this program wa11 implem•ntl!d. Thia first effort has been ouite successful, and N•w Delhi now pr•pares high-quality full ­level bibliographic records in machine-re•dable form for items acquired by that off ice. Substantial proo;;iress i• being made an our plans ta develop a comparable capability in the Cairo af f ic.. . Th i s d•velopmant is e • pec ted to result in a substantial increase in our output of cataloging in Arabic and Turkish. Thereafter, we would e•pect to proceed with eKpansion of cataloQing responsibil i t y in other o v er5eas offices, including Karachi, where mo5t of our Persian mater i als ar• acquired,

Jn your letter you made an ofter of assi,.tance and eKpressed a willingness to " Join with (u•] In working out solutions to thi" 5eriou~ problem." It you have any spec1f1c tdeas in mind as to how c ooperative effort'9 maqht lead to an improvement i n th• btbliographic control of materials 1n the lanquages of the Middle East, I suggest that you write directly to Lucia J, Ra ther, director for cataloging.

James H. Billingto n The Ltbrarian of Con qr .. s s

MELA Notes 47, Spring 1989 5

FUTURE CONFERENCES

MIDDLE EAST 111CR~OOl1 PROJECT EXECUrtVE COl1111TTEE

The HEMP Ex e cuti v e Committee will meet at the Center f o r Research Li br a ries 1n Chicago on 23 June 1989, from l - l 1 J O p.m. The minute s o f this meeting will be printed in t!fil:a.1::!2l!!..I. 48.

Al1€RICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

2~ Jun e - ACRL / Asian and African Section E•ecuti ve Committee - RTSD /Committee on Cataloging Asian and Afric an Materials

26 Jun" - ACRL / Asian and African Librar i"• in A .. ia and Africa, Middle Ea•tern libr aries

11ELA 1989

Section p rog r am : History includinQ a pre s e n ta t ion

of o n

The ne•t a nnual meeting will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on l!l Nov emb.,.-, in Robarts Library, Uni ver,.ity of Toronto. The Pro Qram will be in the mor-ning, tr-om 9-121301 after lunc h we will r-ec onve ne for the Business Mee ting, from 2-!l pm. The two program s e ssi ons area Middle East Library Resources in Canada and Current I s sue• and P roblems in Middle East Libr arianship . Meryle Gaston, Vic.,- P r esident and Program Chair, is planning t he prog r am. Members will recei ve fuller program information and dining arrangements in Septf!mber/Oc~ober.

Also o f intorrorst, an ••hibitio n on earl y Islamic print i n g i s planned tor Robart• Library at the Univer•ity o f To r o nto .

MESA advance infor~ation d r aws atten tion to t h e fact t h a t Toronto , " referr ed to as the Pa r is of Nor th America is a s pec ial c ity that you won ' t want to miss . • Room rates at the Sh•ra ton Centre are SlOO ( Canadian) single ( =USS 77 1 and 9120 (Canadian) double ( • USS'i2).

MESA al•o adv i s es that e very one will have to pass throuQh Canadian Custo ms . All American citizens mu5t show proof o f c iti z en s hip lbirth certifi cate, passpor t, " Qreen car d " !. Citizen s o f countries o the r t han the U.S . should chec~ with th• Canad i ;on Embassy o r nea r est Consulate before their departure .

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MESA 1969

The twent y-third Annual Meeting wil I be held at the S her aton Centr e 1n Toronto, Ontario, on 15-18 Novem ber 19891 it will be hosted bv the Departm9nt of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the Uni ve rs ity of Toronto. The rec ept ion will be held at th .. Royal Ontar i o Museum, wh•re there will be an ~~hibit of O~iental carpets a nd an e xh ibitions of Persian drawings from the 14th a nd 15th c e nturies loan ed by the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.

Laurie Abbo t t

Magda El-Sherbini Marsha Hamilton Dona Straley Amnon Z1 pin

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MELA Notes 47, Spring iq9q

NEWS OF THE 11Et18£RS

The new Ass1stant to th11 Middle East Bibi ioqrapher, Regen,.te1n Library, Univers•ty of Chicago is Lauri11 Abbott. Congratulattons, Laurie'

At the upcoming ALA conference in Dalla,., Basima Bez1rgan (Uni versity of Chicagol, l98q ch .. u· of the Asian and Alri c an Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, wil I preside ovar the Section ' s program on history of l1brar1es ln Asia and Africa. Lesley Wilkins (Boston Public Library) will present a paper on Middle Eastern librariea through history. Oona Stral ey (Ohio Stat11 University I wil I succeed Bezirgan as chair of the Sec ti on in l q90.

Salw• Fer.ahian (McGill Univitrsity) report,. that she has iust completed Handll.st of M, A, and Ph,p, the,;es 5ubmitted to _tM !!!§..!;~of Islamic Studie5. It is avai l•bl• for USf.3. :50J remittance should be included when ordering and should be addressed to: Satw .. Ferahi•n, MLS

Public Service,. Section Islamic Studies Libr ary McGill Uni versity 348:5 McTavish Montrtral, P.a. CANADA H:SA 1Y1

" Book pub I 1'•hing in Egypt, 1970-198:51 trend&, problem5 and prospects " appeared in !AOL Bulletin 32- 33 (19881. A report on hi5 recent Library/Book Fellow eKperiencv will appear in the ne•t issue of MELA Noto.

Ji111 Pollock (•M Indian• Uni versity) writes that he is editing Calverl•y ' s translation to English of th• Bay9awt11,fah~nr text, lja~au• 11-•nJir sharb Iaw::U t• al-1nwlr, which h• says h "gre.at sport ind a lon9 Job"! Htr h•s rec trntly moved to a retirement community and looks forward to n•ws of •veryone. New 1ddress:

3b Oa~ Line . Washington, IA '23'3 phone • 319-b,J-7481

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The Muslim world, with a ts. h'uge 011 reserves, em1trgvd 1n l '"17J as dn are~ of enormous 1mport~nce t o North Am•r1ca and th~ Western world. It may come a9 a surpr tse f or m~ny North Am~r1c~n6 to le~rn th•t there were 90, lb:i Muslims 1n C•nad• in 1981, ac cording to C:~n~1\.1 ___ g_L_.!;;;!Jl.!!!!!.· ' fhtlO f19ure 1s o.indoubtedl v higher now; moreover. demographers prQd1ct that. in Ontar10 ~lone. there will be an a dd1t1on•I 10,000 Muslim votes in the Nov ember, 1988 . federal elect1ons .J

A great percentagl! or the Muslim commun1ty "'" niqhl v educated. Almost all Muslims adhere strongly to the1r rel191on. !10lam is •n import•nt f•cto r in their wel 1 being. Musli m" in Canada come from diverse ethnic groupings;.

There are few 10tudies about Muslims 1n Canad•. Among them are "fhe Arab Mo5lem community tn the Canadian Mosaic" •nd "Arab Women 1n Canada". The author h•s found when c omp1I1ng thu; b1 bl 1ography th•t not a single study have been conducted 50 lar about lsl•mic and Middle Eastern re5ources in Canada or the United States.

Abu - Laban, Bah•. ·•The Ado Iese en t PQer Group 1n Cro106 Cu I tura I P&rspectlve." Canad i an Rev1cw .. nt Sociology and An.thropology 7 (197011 201-211

" The Arab Can .. cllan Commun ity." In Arab Amer!_i;_ID~L.§tufilll L!l....fils1milatian , ed it"d by E. Ha9opun and Ann P•den. 18-36. Wilmette, lllinoisl Medina University Press lnternation.tl, 1969.

"The Arab Community in the Canadian Mos .. ic. " I 197b) 1 JO-Jl.

"Can .. d1an Muslims! the Need for a New Survival Strategy," J..Q.yrnal !nat1tutp of Muslim Miogr1ty Affairs 2, n o. 2/J, n o .

(Winter 1980/Summer 19811: 98-109,

O!iv• Branch gn the Family Tree! tt•e Ar.ibs in Canada. Toronto, Ott.aw" I McClellan "nd Staw .. rd, in assoc1 a tion with the Multiculturalism Director .. te, Department cf Secretary of Statw, 1980 .

Adams, Charles Joseph. " The Davelopment of lsla1111c: Studies 1n Can .. da. " In I.be Mu5 I 1m Commyn 1 ty in Nor th Amer ic 01, eel i ted by Earle W•uc;ih et al. 185-201. Edmonton: University o t Alberta Prass, 1993.

" The ln5t1tute of l 1> lamic Studies." Canadian !2.f:QllL!!Ph1cal ~l 65 (July 1962): J4 - Jb.

Alvl ,Sa) tda. 1 973) .

"Opt ions beyond the heme." Uilm....Canada 2 I Oc: tober

MEL<~ Notes 47, S or1nq 1'?£19

Aoki, T .• et al. (;!!,!'o!<H~f' E;~f"_l_ng.Hi'..L ... H! ... "_..£'2.l.H1r;;.:1 ...... Q f ... t1~sw.1.ng . V~ncouver1 Center tar th~ Study o f Curr iculum and Instruct ion. Un1vers1ty of Br1t1sh Columbia, 1978.

Attalla, Theoohile. !;;anad1a~. vol . 1968.

"People of L11banese Or1g1n" . I n 1;,Qi;;y<;;.!QP.~!1~ 6, 108-109. loronto: Grol 1er of Canad.t,

Awan, S .td1q Noor Ala,., !!!!!~9..12.1..!! of Pa~ilt~L.Q!'...!_q!f'_ .• !~ . . l;;,ani!Q~l t!:!~FirsL2Y!'!.!:!..'1L ... k!:rrlh'Li'..· Ottawa: S.N.A. Awan, under the .tuspic:es of th11 Canada-Pakistan Association of Ottawa-Hui I, 1976.

Azmi, S.H. "An Analysi" of Rel 1glous Divislono; in the Muslim Community of Toronto." Al-Ba•irih l (J.tnuary 19891: 2-9

Baker , P. Memoirs of an Arc:tic: Ara~. Yellowknife, N.W. T,: Yellowknife Publishing Co., 1976 ,

B.arc:lay, H. B. "An Arab Community in the Canadian Northwe5t." Anthroll9.l29..!.£A n .•. 10 I 1968) 1 143-1~6.

"A L1tbane" 11 Community in Lac: LaBic:he A I ber ta," In Minor i.!:..i'.........!;~!lo.9 .1.ans; Immigrant (lrrn, edited by J "an L. Elliott. 66- 83. Sc•rborough, Ontario: Prentic:e- Hal I, 1961.

"The L•baner;e Musi im Family ." Jn The Canadian Fami!.Y..... edited by K. l<ahwaran. 92-104. Rev. ed. Toronto: Holt , Rinehart and Winston, 1976 .

"The Muslim Experience in Canada. " In Religion 1nd Ethnicitv, edited by Harold Coward and Le•li• Kawamura. 101-113. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laur i er Uni versity Press, 1978.

"The North."

P11rpetua ticn cf Mu11 llm Trad! ti on Tht Myslim World ~9 (19b9l: 64-73,

in th" Canadian

Belkaoui, Janice Mcnti. "'lmag• Creation in the Pre,.tige Press: a Case Study of Arab and l11rt•li !magvs."' M.A . thesis, Oepartm•nt of Sociology and Anthropolot;iy, Carleton Univer11 ity, 1976.

Berry, John W., R. Kalin, and O.M. Taylor, eds. Multiculturalism •nd Ethnic Attitudes in Canada . Ottawa, 1977.

Bin-Say<ted, Khtled. "Th• Predic:ament of Muslim Prote!l<aiontl• in Can.ada tnd ih R•solution." Journal ln1titute of Musi im Minority Atftirt J, no. 2 (199111 104-119.

Bradwin, Edmund, !ht Bunkhouse Meo. Toronto, 1972. published 19291

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8uc:h1gn•n1. Nor-man. Doreen M. lndr.a, Ram Sr1vastav.a. ~!.QY2!:!!.

~~2.!;. .. UJ fiistory of Soyth A1tiilnS in C.i.!li!U.· Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 198~.

C.anad ... Cit1zensh1p·Branch. "Middle East Groups." In [h• c .. nad 1"n ~._!~, edited by M. Storey "nd B. Pear son. 237-243. Ottaw,.1 C1t1zensh1p Branch, 1967.

c .. n ,.da. Department of M"npow•r "nd lmm19ration . Ih~R!L....Y..@.~f..1_!!1

Ca~~QA. . Ottawa, 1974. (First report of .. survey on economic and social •dapt .. tion of immigr•ntsl

Canad... Soicr•tary of St•t•. Thr;> C ;101~ ... Fam1 ly Tree1 Can;u;t.51...._ ~

PeoplRll· Don Mll ls, Ont .. r101 Corpus, 1979.

Canadi"n Ar"b Friendship Association of Edmonton .. eli!neers of __ ~QL..t!:!..l!:..!l._..B.~. Edmonton1 Friendshi p Asaoc1ation, 1973.

!L.lii.J u t!Li!L~ Canadian Arab

Canad1 .. n Society of Muslim•. R•oo r t: gn the !m;ia11 gt !slam_ .. l!l. School Te•tbooks ln the Prov ince of Ontario, N . D.

"Canadi,.ns o f Syrian •nd ArmRni•n Origins ." Citiien 6 !December 19601 1 1-~.

Choudhury, Masudul Alam . "An Occup•tional Distribution of Husl1m& in the Employed Labo ur Force in c .. nadal Estimat•s for 1978." Journal Institute of Mu&!im Minority Affairs 1, no. 212, no. 1 (Winter 1979/Summer 1980)1 63-74 .

and L. K .. w .. mura, Watlirrloo, 1978.

1tds.

llim!t!!.lH.QD...L....S!..L_ l.lU.im in Nor th Amenc• 1 t Symoosjym . University o1 Albert•, 1980.

Edmonton•

El I iot, Je•n L., Sc•rborouqh,

•d . 1971 .

"Mcoi"-nuQ.,rc..1"-· .>ot:cy_,,Cc11iu.n!Ja..,d>lii'l'aQil.._l.!!!m.Ull: ... •!!.n...,t'---"'G"-r_,,o.!!.ll..ll..

F"hlm,.n, Lil•. "Culture Conflict In the Classrooms •n Edmonton Surv•y . " In The Myslim Commyoity in North Amer•c•, Ed1tdd by Earle W•uQh et al. 202-211. Edmonton1 University of Albert• Press, 1983.

A Stydy of the _..Jdn.t.n lt~!! Musi i"' Community in Edmonton. Edmonton?: University of Albert,.? , 1979.

F• th i, Asqhar. " The Ar"b Mosle"' Communi.ty in the Pr•ir1a City." Canad i"n Ethnic St~~ 5 (1976): 409-426.

"Ma ss Media •nd a Hosl1tm lmmiQrant Community in C•nada. " Anthrqpo~ n.s. 15 (19731: 201-230 ..

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--~·--· ' cs11d a.t-1~ Smeaton. "Arabic-Canadian Per1od1cal Pub I ication"." ~A!)adi•n -~_lh~ic ~tudas 5 (1976): 1 · ~.

Ferahian, Salwa. "An;ilys1s of the Reference auestions at the (sl .. m1c Studies Library ." · '11'1-~ll.2. 37 11986): 9-17.

Gacek, Adam. " The l sl.•mi c Studies Libr;ary at McGill Un1 ver'51ty. " tlikmai 3 (July 1988> : 27-30.

"The lsl.omic Studies Library at McGill Universitv," ':!~ ~ote3_ 44 (1988>1 17 - 18.

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Iraq- Iran War: a B1bl1ograph1cal ProJect

Introduction

Tiie bLbliography on thE' Iraq-Iran war beqan as a prOJ OPct in mv spa rv tim11. I n 198b I was aw.arded a s1>1 month sabbat1 c a l leave . scheduled to begin in July, whi c h allo .... ed me to complete a s1qn if1cant part at thv prOJ ect . It «as anoth"r seven mon t hs before I was r eady to submLt a draft to the publishe r . The hook was relea'Sed 1n September, 1988, by Mansell Pu bl1shu1q Ltd. 1n Grea t Britain and is scheduled for r elease in the United S tates bv Gale jn January, 1989. In this pres entation I discuss tne scope, methods o f col lvct 1ng and recording tne book and Journal c1 tat1ons , the organizati on of the entries, and the ed1t1 nq of t he bibl i oo r ap hy .

Background to the Bibliog raphy

Encouragement for this bibliography originated with t he publisher Mansell who con tact"d me ;>fte r reading mv a rt icle "Book Pub li cations on the Iran -Iraq Wa r : a Partial Bi bliography" .'

A s ea rc h of the literature d1sclos•d some bibl i ogr;>phic al effort s . Baqir Raza Mehd i had published an indeK to Engl ish news paper and maqa11ne articles on the war and Simi Muhammad Salin and "Abd al­"Amr "Abd al -K a rim one for Arabic newspaper and Journal articl e s ir1 19B1 in a! - Khal.!.J_ al - " Ar~. Another indeK to European newspaper and j ourna 1 articles w<1" issued by Ahm.ad Mahr ad: Q.!!J:. lr.an-!rak Konflitl in 198~.

Thus, ln 19 8 :> , when I wAs considerinq the project, b1bl ioq r a ohic contro l of publications on t he war had sc arce l y begun. The topic, as 1 was assured, would be well wor th pursuing .

Publish•d mAterials only a r e included . These are limi ted to books , substantial ar ticl es (fiv e or more pages), films, and graphic arts. Interview• with important individuals connect•d to the war . r"gardl••• o1 length, are also consid•r.,d. Although concentrati on is on th" war from its ou t break to early 1987, pre-war publications dealin g with lranian-lraQi border r•l•tion• wer• gathered . Ephemera (pamphlets, broadsides, e t c.) a r e not rep r esented .

Al I books and jou rnal a r ticles l o cated werv f ound ln a 1 ibrarv. S ome books wvre not yet cata loged. Unsven books and fil ms i dentif ied in book lis t5 or fi lmographle s w•re added. These a re

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The first was to i dentif y and search bi bl io9raphica I sources covarinc;i the war mos t compr.,hens ive ly. For Western l an9u a11" periodicals I referred to Middle East1 Ab1trtcts jnd lndr~. ! ndeM Jsljmi c ys, Reider · s Guide to Prri2dical Litvrature, l nterntt ional Politjq!l Sci!lnce Ablltrtct5, lm!CM to Lraal P,.riodicals, Cyr ren t baw !ndeM, and t he bibliography section of Middl" East Journal. I r e lied on publisher ·• blurbs, catalogs, journal and book bibliographies, Ois1artation Abstrac t s lot1rnatian1!, and l1lamic Bqok Review lndg~ tar books.

It was mor~ difficult to track down Arabic and Persian lan9uage publications. Far Arabic periodicals, 1l-Fihri1t wa5 indispensable. The bib I iac;iraphical sect.ion of the Middle East Journal was also helpful. There was nathi n9 comp•rable to i!..l.=. Fihrj<;t for Persian l•nguage periodic•!•, which are not wel 1-repr esented, Ayandth, Nashr-i panith, and the Middle East Acce11ions Litt, as well •s publisher ' s blur bs, catal o9s, and book and journal bibliographies were scanned for Persian lan9ua9e book~. The online databas es Middle E1st1 Ab1t r1c ti and Index •nd Midet, t E..llJt were also searched.

The second step requil'"Rd id•mtifying and th&n v isitinQ res•arch libraries with 11i9nific1nt collection• on the modern Middle E1st . The followin9 libraries were v isited : University Res.,arc h Library, University of Califar-nia at Los Angeles, a n d th• Doe Library , University of California, Berke l e y 1 Near East Room , Widener Library , H•rv a r d Un iver1ity1 the Net r Eaat Section of t he Li br-ar y of Con9ress1 Hoov•r Institution on War , Rev o l ution, and Peaces and th• Oriental Section, New York Public Library.

Thirdly, I informed collea9ues of my project. Many citation5 were acquil'"ed in this way,

Cit1tion1 were recorded according to the Chictao Mtnutl of Style, 13th ed. standard. Each citation contain• •n author or edito r entry (when it ia Qi venl, then the . title, imprint or name of journ•l (with month •nd Y••r), pa9•s, seri•• in1or~•tion, • nd •n a nnotation of the ar-t ic le or book . The above information w1s recorded on a 3M:I card , which w.aa prepared for ent•rin9 on rny computer dat•base.

The form of the 1uthor- 's or editor · s name conforms with th1t used b y the Libr1ry of Con9ress, when it could be determined. Arabic script entries were l'"omanized. The •nnotation was 11iven in t he f o rm of an abstr1ct. St1nd•rdized spel I in9 of terms in the 1bstract occasionally reaulted in spellin9 different from the same term in the cit1tion.

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Organ1zatlon

lher"e ts a two t1ef'" topical arrangem&"nt o f the entries . The Pr" lmar v t1er •~ mv ~ubJ~c t. This is th• patter n s~t b y the ~ubJec t

c o verage of the books and articles collec ted. Some topics rec e i v ed mOr"E coverage than otherst for e~ampte, ''Mliitarv a11d Armame•it~ · ·

( 38 ci tationsl, " Peace Efforts and Peac e P.-ed1c:ti a n<; " t 531. Sometimes cited titles fell into mo.-e than one cateoor v . I" t his ca se I arranqed them by predominat e sub Jee t or put them ir. a " g ene.-al" division. The secondary tier was alphabetica l within each subJect category .

Every citation was assiqned author, sub J ect, and date de scr1olors. A list of the subject descriptors was kept, C1tat 1ons were c ategorized by descriptors into b r' oad s ubJect / per1od qroups. These groups' were th<! basis for the chapter organization of the bibliography. During the editing stage, the grouping was r educed to s•ven chapters '. Within each chapter •ntries were a r romged by subject.

The computer qr.,atly facilitated the compilat1on of the bib liography. U"ing a software package cal led Supe..-ti le. a long with the word process i ng program Wordstar , was able t o crea te a dat abas• and sort the citations by subject, author, or anv other descriptor assigned to a citation.

The citations on the 3 K5 card we..-e transferred to an onl1ne lile us ing Wordstar. Each citation was entered in a fo r m Superftle could read and separated by a symbol understandable t~ Superfile.

Wordstar did (rel•••• 3.11 and still does not (release 41 have the ability to c:reatll' diacritics. With complew manipulation (using the subscript and superscript commands I, I was able to add diac r itics . The results, however , were not satisfac tory on a dot mat r iw printer (my only printer I. Super file would not number the citation5 n or cr•ate an indll'K. I used a Kaypro IV CCP / Ml which is now obso lete . There 15 no comparable variety of software for CP t M machines t oday as there is for ODS machines . I was also unable to use the campus computer printers.

ll groups1 introductory sources1 original s ources1 general studi"•I genesis of th• !raQ-lran conf li.ct; d omes tic impact; foreign impacta impact of th1r war on thl! Gulf; lit .. r-atur-e of the war; memoirs, biography, journals, and accounts o f individuals; and photog raphic essays and films

1 • introductor y s ources1 history o f lr'aQi.-lranian animosity; Iraq and Iran at war, 1980-1987; domestic: impact; fore1gn 1mpac t1 and conflict in the Gulf; and literature and l1lm of th" war .

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After the citations on the database were organ 1zed, all th11 Superfil• codes were erased and each citation was numbered sequentially using a simple PASCAL program I wrot•, The chapter headings were then added to the database (each chapter had been loaded onto a separate floppy disk to facilitate management of th• databas e> . An author and title inde~ were built m•nual ly on the computer us i ng the word processing program.

The publisher refused to print diacritics becau•• of the c ost and the belief they were not crucial to understanding the Arabic and Persian c itations. It did accept the ·ayn and hamza. For the sake of clarification I translated these titles into English.

Initially Mansell wanted me to prepare my teKt disks so they could print di r ectly from them. This r"quirlfd the roemoval of al 1 th• Wordstar codl!s and replacing them wi th print c odes which they supplied. For tunately they decid•d to work from a manuscript copy,

During t he editin g stage I began thinking about a final tit!• for t he bibliography. The publisher wantl!d something with " punc h. " Thiry sugg•sted " Thi! Iran- Iraq War : a Bibliography" . I , think i ng of t hl! lim i tations of the work, was using the working titles "A Reference Guid• to the Iran- Iraq War" . A second issue was the word order of the title . Which country should be listed first'? One point of v i ew was th•t since lra.q had launched the invasion of Iran, it s hould be listed first . Others, Iranians opposed to the war, thought it was immaterial. ThR print media referred to it both way&. I took the libr•rian ' s viewpoint •nd acc•pted th• ord•r established by the Library of Congress.

J. Anthony Gardn•r C•liforni• St•t• Univer•ity, NorthridQ•

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Conte~porary Persian Presg in EMile

Historica l Background

In the early beginnings of Persian 1ournalism in the late nineteenth century , when an y ex prQ~sion of democratic 1deas was e Mt remely difficult, writers abroad arduously campaigne d for reforms and freedom of speech. Most of the periodicals pub lished abroad, in spite of their being banned in (ran, were smuggled 1n by various means and had tremendous impact on the course o t the Constitutional Revolution.

The first newspaper publi shed outside Iran was Akhtar, which began in Istanbul in 187~ and lasted until 1896 . Unde.- the editorship o f /!iqa Muhammad Tahir Tabrrzr and with contributions from such wel I - known' figure,; as Mirzi Aqa Kh~n Kir111anr, Sha ykh Ahmad Ruh! and Mfrzl Mahdi Tabrizr, it gained such a reputation in th~ Middle East t hat its readers were called "Akhtari ma ghab", meaning thos e of Akhtari school of thought, and some fanati cs considered its reading a sin. Akhtar wa1> On• of the first Potrsian newspaper1> to be published with movable typ1t. It soon acquired the rotputation as a we! I-written p11riodical of moderate views. As a result o f pressur,. from the Irani.an government, the Ottoman authorities banned its publicat i on. In a dark period of Iranian history, ful I of tyranny and despotism, ~ had a !OiQnif icant impact o n the minds of lr~ni•n~.•

In 1888, Mrrzl ~Abd al-Rahim Til i boff and Sayy id Muhammad Shabistar! published the first Persian s atirical paper in [st.inbul, sarcastically entitled Shahsavan (Lover of a King) with a note on its cover that •every forty years one igsue would c ome out ." ' I t was printed secretly in 300 copies and then sent in envelope,. to v.oriou'5 clerics, merc hants and statesmen in Iran. In order to conceal its placw of publication, the copi,.s wen~ often sent to Pari,. or London and then forwarded to Ir.in. This paper did not last long, thouQh, and according to Mu~ammad ~Ir Tarbiya t in his Jarayrd -i Aztrbtyijiu it did not survive beyond its first issue.

An outstanding and influential Persian periodical was published by Mirzi Malkum Khan from 1890 to 1906 in London. Qanun wa!O !OUpposed to be • weekly p•potr, but in 15 years only 24 i ssu1ts were publish•d. M•lkum Khan sent the first issue of the paper with a letter ta N:isir al-DI"n Shlfh, sayings "Since we heard that Your Majesty is inclined toward a government of law and o rder i n I r an, the writers of the paper have decided to formulate a con!Ot i t ution tor Iran and send it to you gradually. "' The then prime mini,.ter Amin al-Saltanah, as well as the wholot system of government, were b i tterly

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criticized. From the first issue it,. entry was banned in Iran, but same copies were secretly sent to Tehran for distribution among some intellectuals . The editor was the major writer of the paper and h is bitinQ and critical articles attracted considerable attention. Like 8..1!..t!.li.c• Qanun had a significant impact en the intellectual and po l itical trends of the Constitutional period.

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Egypt, t o o, was home to a couple! o f lonq- las t 1ng Pe rsLan periodicals with a largl! readership. First was ';'ikmat by Mi r za Mahdi Khan Tabriz i (a contr tbutor to the earlll!r Akhtarl wh1ctl b"qan publication in 13 10 H. ( 1892131 and las ted almos t twent y yea rs. It was a we I 1-wr it t<>n, serious papl!r ;ind ttle ed l tor especially wanted to promote the pu re Persian language unta1ntl!d by Arabic. Also published in Cairo wa s the weekly~~· undl!r the editorship of Mirz3 'Al~ Mu~ammad Kh~n KashSni from 1898 until 1900. In the second year Mfr•a CAl! Muhammad Kh~n went to Iran and handed over the paper to Sayyid Fara

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J Al !ah, who continued to publish ~yrayy;, first in Tehran and later 1n Kashln, '

Another eKtremely influential paper outside lr•n was the Habl al­matrn of Calcutta undEPr the editorship of Sayyid Jamal' al-DTn i;iusaynt Mu<-ayyid al-lsl:im, which was publi'Ohed from 1893 for a total of 37 years. During this period, it was b•nnvd 43 times and was denil!d distr-ibution in Iran. Yet, becau .. ,. of it" dllmocratic views and Wl!ll-documented news, it was Vllry popular both in Iran and outside. It had reporters all over the Middlll East, and for the firs t 10 years 5,000 copies were distributed among thll clerics of Iran a nd Najaf, as well as a mong the intellectuals.•

These periodicals all originated outside Iran a nd played an important role in the Constitutional movement inside t he country. But there were also a number of periodicals tha~ began in Iran and were forclld into exile during the period of autocracy ( June 23, 1908- July 16, 1909) . These included ~(Paris ) by Dr. Jal"ll Khln Mu'ayyad al - l;lukami and Shams by Sayyid t-1as•n Tabr'Izr in Istanbul . The three papers of •AlT Akbar Dikhudi published after hig escape from Iran C5ur- i lsrafrl at Vverdonne, SurOsh in Istanbul and Ryh al-Qudus in Paris) contain his beautifull y written piece" of f'olitical satire, Two other weeklies !Az'idl" by Husayn Najf O!Bimzidah and N.tlah-i millat by M!'rzi "1\Ir ~qa Shrrlz'l) appeared in l5tanbul and Mecca reso,.ctively, but none of them continulld beyond the fir-st issue.

The events of the First World War and the threat of Iran's blling divided into two spheres of influence by Russian and England in 1919, !Sent a new wave of Iranian eMil1ts abroad and produced a number of remarkable Journals. Pars, a bi-monthly, of which on ly six lssues appeared in Istanbul in 1921, was founded by Lahut1 and it included a French section edited b y Hagan Muqaddam. As a by­product of the war, the famous journal·~ was published from 1916 until 1919 by Taqr· zadah and Jamalzadah and several other writers with the help of the German government. Though it was a political paper and served the interests of Germany, Klvah contained many scholarly and literary article,.. The Germa n government paid 600 Marks to Taqt 1 z~dah and 200 to the othllr main writer.. . After the war, thi-. wa,. stopped and Taqf 1 z.tdah and Jam3 1 •:ldah had a hard ti111e e arning a I iving . Nonetheless thay published Kivah in a new serie9 for-~ for two years, from J anuary 22, 1920 to Ottcember 1, 1921. In th• nttw saril!s, the journal became strictly literary and cultural and mainly aimed at

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introduci ng Europe•n thought and ways of life to Iranians. Jamalzadah ' !i "'literary manifesto '', wruch Later on i;erv .. d a5 •n introduc tion to hi!i collection ot short stories, appear .. d 1n the5e ser1es.

In 1921, when ~ceased publication, fr.lnshahr beqan its lite in Berl in under the editorship of Kaz1mzidah fr~nsh•hr . It was a respectable journal of literature and.philosophy, with such writers a,; Mul)ammad Oazvfn r, Rai;hTd Yi'samr, Mat_imild Ghan1z~dah and f r~n5hahr himself . In four years, 46 issue'!> w .. re publ 15hed, A monthly, whose aim was to "tear the veil at superstition and ignorance and awaken I ran tram the sl .. ep of carelessness•,• waa published by the young Iranian intellectuals from May 1924 to April 1925, under the title F4ranQi 5tln. Its contributors, who became fam ouli in later years, included Jamilzadah, ~asan Muqaddam, Mushf 1q Ka~1mT and Taqi Ar.int.

A very interestinq but short- lived paper, which began publishing 1n Leipzig in 1930 , was Pavk~r, under the editorlihip o f Murta~J 'Alavr, which i;ecretl y found its way to Ir•n during Reza Shah 's dictatorship. Farrukhf Yazdf, who after man y ordeal s in publishing his famous newspaper TOfln. was afraid for hi 5 life, fled from Iran and c ontinued his; co&ageous, daring, fearl e5s article5 against Reza Shah in ~. The lr•nian ambassador we nt to court 1n order to stop the publication ot the paper, but he lost the case and had to pay a fine of 40,000 Marks. More than a decade l ater, Ruz1qar­.L.!li!!1 began its publication in London, with the financial hel p of the Britilih government, under the editorship of A. J. Arberry and such contributon; as M!nuvr and Farz~d. Thili lit .. ra ry and his tor ica l quarter 1 y, which maintained very high 11 tand•rds and which in many ways resembled the early Kavah, appeared regularly from 1941 until 1945.

Our ing the 53 years of Pahlavi reign, twice thil t I aodga tell of c ensorship opened and an amazing number ct newspaperli and journals we r e publis hed i n lr•n1 once, after the abd ic a tion of Reza Sh•h in 19 41 which lasted almost to the end at the premier11hip of Musadd1q in 19 53, •nd •gain a few months before th .. I11lamic Revolution and a few months after it, From 1941 to 1948, accordinc;i to a list prepared by Elwell - Sut ton , 464 periodicals were publi shed in Iran, while the number in the first three month1> of the RevolutLon was 222. Many newapaper5 be gan publication in Iran, w .. re banned, went abroad, then came bac k and resume d publ ica tion in I ran , and t hen once more were forced out of the country. Here are a few e Kamp l es:

OunyO wali founded by Or. Aranr in Tehran in 1933 , but 1t did not last long and Aranr eventu.ally died i n priso n . It again resumed publLcation tram 1960 to 1963 . In its third period it bagan publication in Sweden and continued until 1978, The fourth and fifth i;er1ei; again began i n Swed•m. Assoc iated with t he Tudah Party wa s the 5at1rical paper Chalangar, wh ich a p peared in Tehra n from 1950 for 1951, under the editorship of Muha mmad 0 AIT Atrashtah . After the 1953 coup, A f r~sht•h fl e d I ran .and went to Bulgaria where he eventually died. After the I slami c Re volution,

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Chalangar was replaced by Ahangar, of wh1ch 16 issues came out 1n

Tehran. In 1981, it resumed publ1c:at1on under the editor-ship of Man~chihr MahJCTbr in Landon, and now, thanks to contributions from Jsma•!t Khu'T and others, it has bec:ome one of the most uutstand1ng Persian sat1r1cal papers. S1m1lar-ly, Par-viz Khatibi publ1shed his satirical weekly Haj1l Baba in Tehran from 1949 t~ 1953. After- the Revolution, lt was published as the c:ontinuat1on of the old periodical, but befor-e long Khat!br had ta flee the country, This time he published til.Jif Baba to;.. two years in New 'lor-k, from 1979 to 1981. '

The Present Erd

Ta study the contemporary Persian p~e5S outside Iran. a revLew of the demagraph1c situation of lranidns living abroad 1s in order. Immediately after the Islamic Revolution of February, 1979 1 a great maJority cf Iranians living in e~ile, who LOuld not or would not go back to Iran under the Shah, r-etur-ned home. At the same time, a number of Iranians, who could not or would not live in Iran under­the new re~ime, left the country, As the Revolution took hold and the initial relaMation in censorship was replaced by r-epression and dictatorsh1p, a new wave of political e><iles wer-e dr1ven out to foreign lands. These wer-e intellectuals, writers and artists who were disillusioned with the Revolution and sought to continue their fight against autocr-acy and despotism from abroad. The economic base of this gr-cup was much less strong than tha first wave, who had generally enjoyed economic prosper-ity under the Shah. To these were added many students and foreign graduates who had arrived in Iran after the Revolution, to find living there lntalerable under the new r-eg1me, and, finally, the Iraqi-Iranian war of 1980 caused the departure from Iran of a large number of young Iranians who would otherwise have been drafted into the army. So the present community cf Iranian$ living ~bread consists a1 th~ fallawing: 11 Political e><iles of two camps! those who were in favor of the Shah"s regime and do have .o good economic st.onding and those who reject both the Shah and Khome ini regimes and are not so well off; 21 Educated lr-anian"' who have left Ir-an with or without th<!ir families and are mostly settled in European countries and North Am .. rica1 31 Students and young Iranians who hav e left Iran after the Revolution; 41 Merchants and retired per-sons.'

In summ•ry the composition at the pre~ent Iranian emigre community consists of a large number of r"l.otively well-educated Iranians, who are dispersed primarily in North America and Europe, without close ties with each other, and with no regular communication with Iran. This kind of profile is reflected in the press outside Iran and, consequently, a variety of periodical publications ar-e being published these days. In general, they can be divided into periodicals of various political organizations and those of a literary and cultural nature with some degree of commercial enterpr ise. Ther-e are also those that do not have a clear ori~nt.a.tion and their contents are a mix cf poll.tic:s, history,

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culture, art and literature. Oue to their wide scatterance and )ack o1 information, a ccimp~ehensive survey of P@r5i•n periodical§ was not po,.sibl... Up to the tim" of submitting this study for publication, we had identified only about 120 titles which began publishing after February, 1979. Obviously, due to space limitations, we could not describe all or even a significant portion of the identified titles here. We have, therefore, opted to describe • few titles in this issue of MELA Notes, and leave the publication of A Directory qf Persian Periodicals in Exile, as an addendum to this article, for another occasion.

It should be noted that, like a vast majority of Persian periodicals appearing and disappearing after the R"volution in lran, many of thl! periodicals published outsidl! Iran since th" Revolution have also disappeared because of financial or other problem!!. Notations of !IUch changes will be includ"d in th .. listing where the information is available.

A Sampling

Soon after th1t Revolution of 1979 Ahangar (a weitkly satirical paper) began publication in Tehran. This wa!I in fact a replacement of the famous satirical journ•l Ch•langar which U!litd to be publi!lhed by thit poet and journali!lt Mu~ammad"l'\lr Afrashtah in the Mu'jaddiq itra. • At the out!let Ahangar, 1 i ke i t!I predece!lsor Chalangar, wanted to k1t1tp its affiliation with the Tudith Party, but a• it was opttnly critic.ill of the Islamic governm,.nt and fol low•d an ind11Pp•md•nt policy, thtt p'lrty denounc::ed the Journal and d•nied any til!!I with it. Aft•r siKtit!!n issues, Ahangar wa!I forced to close by the governm,.nt in Auoust, 1979. Almost two year!I \ atl!r, in 1991, it r1tsumed publication in London "" Ahangar dar tab'rd und•r the editorship of Manuchihr Ma~jObT, with the help of a number of its form•r contributors, includino th• w•ll-known poet 1 sma'tl KhO'r.' Ahangar d•r tab erd is !lti 11 being pub! ished' and like its ori9inal T•hran •dition, it is ontt of the mo!lt wl!ll­writt•n and w•l l-il lu11trated satirical Pl!r!lian papl!r!I, with •n imprtts•ive array of •atirical pil!Cl!!I both in pros• and poittry, as well •• num1trou• cartoons.

Hadi Khursandr, on• of th• most talent•d satirist• of Iran who had been rouohed up in an attack by som• eKtremists on the off ic::• of one of the nl!wspapers of Tehran, on 27 Ju 1 y 1979, be9an th1r publication of TiahUt, whose name wa!I cho!len in defiance of the t!llamic " Ktremi!lts . It was a r•m•rkable achiev•ment that hit wrot .. prose and poetry and •ven illu!ltrated hi!I papitr himself occasionally for !liK months. After tw•nty - two i!lsUe!I othttr sa tirist!! Joined him and the name of the paper was c::hanged to As<jhar Aga (January 1980). tt takes its naml! from a fictitiou!I c haracter who wa!I giv en the •ditor!lhip of th• paper. For •ight years Khursand! managed to bring out th• PaPer with an incredibll! talent and re!lourc•fulne!ls. Hi• familiarity with cla!l!lical Per5ian literaturit and his talent a!I an accompli!lhed po .. t qavit the paper

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a unique quality and, to his satir•, a special richness and depth . Some of the s•tiric•I pieces written by Khur,.andf such •S " The Sermons of Asghar ~q'll " (Khu~bahha-yi Namaz-i Jum'"ah-»i Asghar ~qi) were collected and published as a book. Due to financial problem•, Khursandi could not continu .. his pap•r after 1987, but h• ,; till writes for v arious Iranian periodic•!" abroad, such as Ruzi~Jr-i

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An outstanding liter•ry and political journal publi,;hed in Paris by Ghulam Husayn Sa(:idr was a..!.ii.ll..[. Sa"idi" found•d this mag.nine in 1973 d~ring the reign of th• Shah and, in spite of strict censorship, managed to bring out siM issues, 8etween issues 3 and 4, he wa" imprisoned for eleven months in the notorious Ev in prison . On the eve of the Islamic Revolution, Sicidr and the well ­known poet A~mad Sh3mlu founded, in London, · the weekl y lr[nshahr. On account of his criticism of th• new regime, Si"idi had to flee from Iran and ended up in Paris in April, 1982. Until his de.ath in November, 1985, he published "i" issues of e.!.11Jl.i: and number 7 was pub! ished posthumour;ly. a.Li!.tt[, • journ•I of high I it"r"ry standards, contains not only most of the latorr works of S:icidi", but also the works of some of the b•st lr•nian writ•rs in e x il•. The journal ' s •ditorials, mostly writ torn by si"•id! him!5elf, wllre representati ve of th• vi•w" of .an un•ligned and lib•ral left with an international int•r•st and w•r• highly critic•! of th• Iranian regimor. In his first editori•l, he d•v•loped the idea of "d•cul tural ization" ( farhanr;ikushi) and lamb•at•d the r"gime for repressive measure" against liter•ry and •rtistic eMpressions in lran. frinsh .. hr, yet another r•viv.i 1 of an ear I i•r naml!!, i;;oon •fter b.,ginning public•tion under its first editor, A~~"d Sh6~1u, ch.ing•d into a norw series in W•shington, O. C. and continued until 1984. A w•orkly of lib•ral t•ndenci••, it w•s a v•ry inform•ti ve and wRll-balancl!!d periodical, which came out first in eight, and lattrr in SiMteen, quarto pages. Ztmin-1 naw, Ch•shmandaz and Andf~hth-i izid, which are publish•d in France, Germany and Swedl!!n re!5pectiv•ly, with various degre•s of liber•lism and leftist tendenci•s follow th• same path ts th•t of Alifbi. The first issue of Ztrein-i ntw was published in Paris (November, 1983) and th•n in Kain, and now after thirteen issues, it i11 going to end up in London. Though it is stated that thit journ•l will be published •very two months, betw•en the last two i5sues there was a hiatus of on• •nd one-half Y••rs. Long d•lty5 between iS5Ul!!5 hav• been comp1insated by a considerable incrtr•!5e in the number of page!I. ZamJn-i naw has becom• .a hefty public•tion with numerous schol .. rly articl•s on Iranian politic" and history, political theory and intern .. tional affairs .

Sahand i5 another publication of leftist leaning that is being published in Paris und•r the editorship of Muhammad Aras!. So far, eight is!5ues have "PP••r•d (from f•ll, 1984 ~o summer, 1986). It is a schol•rly Journal of "political •nd cultural studies", mostly devoted to theoretic•!, philosophical and political discu5sions from a non-aligned leftist point of view.

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Cha§hmand~z and Ardi s hah-i azad •re two other journal" with s imilarities to a..l.i.!.ll! · The former i5 published in Paris und•r tha editors hip of Nasir P3kdaman and Muh5in Val f3ni and so f"r four is;sues hav"' app11!4.r!'d (the l.ost one d4\ed 1988). Apart from havinQ some short storie5 and poem,., Chashmandlz leans toward politic"l writi ngs .and theor!'tic.ol or socio-ec onomical an.ill y sis of r1>CC1nt Iranian history. Of An<lj'hah-i izad, which was founded two years ago in Sweden by Murt"t ~aq.ofi and some of hi5 friends, so fa r eight issues ha v• appeared, the last being number 7-8 of spring, 1988. It is an intel lactu"I and scholarly journal of short stories, poems and anal y tical articles about the recent history of Iran as well as som1> translations pertainin~ to the Third World, including Iran,

NtJm-i oyv[n is another publication of similar tendencies, which s;tates that "it will publish "t irregultr in terv als whenever there is som•thin9 to say," It is published in New York, apparently under the editorship of San•atk~r, and its lat•st i5sU!' (number Bl is da ted 5ummrr, 1987 . Th• journ"'l purport•dly belong5 to the Iran ian intellectuals, and, more th"n following a certain leftist po i nt of v iew, tends to fa vor leftist thaorias in studying lran i "n history and literature.

Rahlvard, under the editorship of Hasan Shahb~z, is a Los Angeles­b.,sed quarterly journal, which has publi9hed since 1982. It is predominant 1 y devoted to tha stud y of Parsi an 1 i tera tu re olnd history, Mr. 5hahblz, who is a prolific transl.,tor of European masterpieces into Parsi.,n, occasionally brings in some of his own tr,,.nslations. It is das cribad as " a P•rsian Journal for preserving "nd e xpanding Persian culture.•

RUzi~ir-i naw, yat "nothar rev i val of an earlier name, was founded seven years ago by JaOfar Ri~id undar tha ~itorship of lsmicr1 Purv~1r. Publishing raoularlv •vary month, it normally has around 100 pag1>s, and aims at beinQ a New:sweek or LlJru1. mai;iazine in Persian. RJ1iair-i n1w, basically a political and cultur al Journal, has V•ry informed and sometimes compr•hensiva articles about th• Arab world. Ja•far Rl'id, who was tha Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia "nd an excellrnt Arabist, as wa l l as •A1T R i z~ NOri'zldah, are tha writers of these articles. The diary of tha aditor •ntitlad " My sorrowful life and my Iran " , which began with tha publication of th• journal, has so far run into BO J.ns tal lments.

JrJn 1nimah, a Quarterly journal of Irani.an studie,;, ha,. bean published by the Foundation for Iranian Studies in Wa,.hington, O.C . , sinca 1982. The foundation cama into beinc;i on account of an endowment by tha Pahlavi family, and Jal~! MatlnT is the editor of the journal. Jt is a s cholarly publicat i on devoted mainl y to classical Persian literature "nd Iranian history. However, i n its editorial, Dr. Matin! occasionall y touches on the politics o f the day . In such editor i al s tha editor displays a c onservatism which puts him at odds with ,.o~e o f the above me~tioned journals.

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Another lit!!rary "nd scholarl y Journal is Kivah, which began publication, under the editorship of Mul)ammad CA?imi, in German y in 1964. It is still published, although very irregularl y , in Munich under the same Rditorship, end it is perhaps one of the oldest Jranian journals outside Iran. Unlike Trin 1namah, it covers both modern and classical Iranian literature, and contains poems and fiction by some modernist poets and writers. It also includes a few pages in German, which of t!!n are devot!!d to the stud1es of the German lranologists .

Las ti y, mention shou Id bR madl:! of two week I ie" of consi derab IR popularity and standings ~ju of London and lra~____ti.ml]J;_ !nte!'.:!!!tti.s:mtl of Washington, D,C. The f"lrmer began publtcatton in 1984 under the editorship of Dr. Ni?bah zadah, the former editor of the Tehran daily Kayhan, and th• latter was started by Ja vad Khakbaz l.n 1970 in order to k..-ep the lr.,nian communities of the U.S. and around thu world informed of the h .. ppenings in their homeland. I ran timlls internation;pl_ has "lways been published with .. few pages of English that 5Umm .. rizRs the contents of the new•paper. It has an indlfpendent orientation which m"kfts it diff&rent from ~b~n, which seemingly still h"s a somewhat pro­monarchist point o1 vi1tw .

Hasan Javadi Abazar Sepehri

1. ?adr Hishimr, Mu~ .. mmad. Tarikh-i Jari'id va majallat-i Jran . 2d ed. l?fahin : lntishari"t-i Kami!, 1363 (1984), v. 1, p . 63 .

2. Browne, Edward G, The or1tss and oo!!try of modern Persia. Los Angeles I Kalimat Prwss, 1983, p. 106.

3. Ibid., p. 106.

4. ~"dr Hit1himr, op. cit ., v. 4' p . 97.

!L 1 bid •• v. 2, p. ~Ot.

6. Ibid., v . 4, p. 67

7. Am1nr, Taqi". "N;oshr-i kitab-i F.Or•i dar kh"3r1i "z kishv ar " . Zaman-1 njw, no. 11 CNarch 19~6), p . 219-227.

8 . For a study of thll works of A1rashtah, see the article on him by Ha5an J.avidJ:" and Bahman Shu•1 .. hvar in Encyclopedia lranlca, Fa!!c. 4.

9. See ~asan JavadI and Michael Beard, "Iranian writers abro .. d: survey and e legy• in Wor ld literature today, Spring 1986, p , 2, . Also ~"san JavadI, ~ in Persi"n litgrature, Fairleigh Univ ersity Press, 1988, pp. 282-284.

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A Lone Bibliographer •t her PC

In •n article in ~~1.B. . ~~~~~ 4J, Mike Alban wrote of dev elopments an tne fleld of Middle Eastern bib! i o11r.opni c stud1e,. , fr om the i mmense c o mputer-intensi v e Labrar y of Congress to "the efforts o f " Jone babl iogr•pher •t her PC an Oenver . " fhence, the ti tie of thts p aper.

My efforts •s " lone 01bl1011rapher be gan •n 1 9~2 . in Rabat, wne re l w•s Curator al The Ree d Coltectaan, a p r i v ate I tbrary on Morocco . rhe collector for who m I worked w•nted " e verything" on Mo r occo . We b eQan with 110 book s , mostly English travel books, plus a f11w titles u1 French. As the collect1on grew, the collec t o r wanted morQ - ~nd mor~ - and t' e w~nted them yest erd~ y •

Tr a cking down works on Moroc co in Mor occo became one o f my fu l l­t11ne Jobs, b1rcame a regular v 1s1to r t o R•bat bool<stores and second-nand book de•lers , kept my ears •nd e y es open •t s o c 1•l func tions, went from one qov ernment mtn1atr y t o another f o r pub! ic•t1ons t•ven mimeogr•phed copies ), and scouted " tabac lnosks " wher e pri v ately-pr1nted m•teri•I of ten appeared ne•t to the C IQ•retta" and gum . Oe•lers in London and New York drew my attent i on to Englu;h-l•ngu,.ge works. F iv• d,e;il•rs in P•r1s kept U!I ;ippr1sed of out-of-print French publ1c•tions.

In Morocco, l concentrOlted on French-langu•ge Moroccan publ1cat1ons •nd Sp•n1sh Protectorate works, assiduousl y study1ng the loc•I p res s, Jotting down ovar y ref•rence o r poss1b l e lead for •ut hors and public•tions . I scoured e very f oo tnote . In Rab•t I quickl y n •rr owed my focus to one v ery knowledgeOlble book dealer (n i s s t a r•, ne"r the uni v .. rs1t y , w•s the h•ng - out for 1ntellectuals, budding writer s, professors And r•~e~rche~s, and oook lov ers in gener~l) .

Al I this took th• pl•ce of DIALOG, OCLC, •nd e ven your old­f•shioned card cat•loQ.

soon re.il)ized couldn ' t cope with the rap1dly •ccumul.ilt1n1,1 Mo r occo collection •nd the que,.t1ons my bo ss threw at m" at 9 o 'c loc k on Monday ~ornings and •t ~:10 on Friday evenings1 how man y boo ks in Fr•nch do we h•ve ? How much d1d I spend on Morotco books l•st month? Dow• h a v• any title s by Abda l lah Laroui" Is the Greon March r•prasentod in my collect1 o n ? Do we h~ve an y r vc•nt books written on Western S•h•ra? Wh•t do we hav e on Ki ng H•s s an in the collection? He •lw.il y ,. e•pected immedt•te •nswer ,. .

Not onl y d1d I Q•t ques t ions like this from the boss, but as word spread of his growing Morocco tibr•ry, I w•s c•lled on to answe r reference questlonli from diplomats at t h • American Embassy I and 111omet1mes from the British Embassy!, t each•rs •t the American School, Moroc can researchers (who plac ed their request s thro ugh USIS channels), Fulbrighters, and others.

My hu,.ban d sugQe,.ted th•t the c o mputer could help mo cope, and i n ,.1sted that it w .. ,. !what he c•llod l "user - friend l y. " So , forms were designed to inc o r porate data l needed to answer t hese

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Questions, and more , and I learned how to use our Apple !I f ,

Befo re long , the number of records I had fa r surpassed the c a pac1ty of o ne diskette. Our imaqinat1on was stretc hed to f1qure o u t ha w to produce an " author list" as the database absorbed more and more d iskettes. Separating English and French helped. Oiv•ding English i n the middle of the alphabet helped. But, e ventuall y , I e nded up with eight diskettes. To cope, l copied the basic data into a new databas e with minimal data (author, title, data, etc.I, split that into French and non - French, and further di v ided the French I istinq" in mid-alphabet, ending up w1th ov1rr· 1,:500 records o n three diskettes. From that, I could q1mar.ate an alphabetical autho r listing without too much difficulty. Sorting and analys is wer e possible, but slow and painstaking, and updati n g the three diskettes was a headache.

Bac k in the U.S. by 1986, I had a database of 1,800 t i tles when the collector stopped coll1tctin11 Marocco . had t i me on mv hands, curiosity about Mo rocco in Colorado libr.aries, and the Denv e r Public Libra r y a few blocks away. So I be11an findin11 out how t o do academic research i n a public libr• r y, usinq Colorado s Online Pub I ic Access C.atal ogue cal led CARL, and the ILL of fie.,, I began with Morocco in bibliographies available in U.S. libraries, us1ng ILL and OCLC rather ewcessively, I manually s"arched ten bibliographies and 3 7 years of the Middle East Journal. I assigned a code letter to each biblioqraphy. I looked at every book l1sted that me ntioned Mor occo. If Morocco had two or more entries 1n the indeM and at least one paragraph devoted to it in th" te w t , l included it. 11 th1t work was a I ready in my database, I entered the code to indicat1t which bibli o11raphy it was in. II not found. I added it to my database with its " bibcode" , In addition to t he usual bibliographic information, I also recorded the language and whether or not the author was a worn.on . In the meant1m•, I h.ad converted to a more •ophisticat1td but •til I •u,.er-lr i endly" software on COMPAQ OJskpro with h.ord disk, to dt!al with the mass of materi•I I was locatinq.

Jn a year and • half of rese.orch , the database had grown to o ver 4 ,000 titles (books , mono11raphs, dissertations, and olfprints in We•tern language• ! periodi c al literature i• excluded[. I h ad co~" to the conclusion that the readlly - acce•sible bibliographies did not do Justice to th• Morocco-related documentation a vailable in e very area of study. I decided to apply to the N•tional Endowmen t for Humanitie9 for a qrant to fund the compilation of the above­mentioned biblio11raphy. For the grant application I did anal y ses comparing my database with the principal bibliographies.

My database now ha• ~,37~ titles, but only 4,86l were published in or before 1'702, the cutoff d;ite for the mo•t recent of the bibliographies consulted. My analyses relate these 4,8b3 titles to those in the 11 bibliographies listed in Annex I. A ba,.ic question : How many of the 4,863 pre-1'7Bl titles identified could be found through the most accessible bibliographies? The answer : 1,266, or 26Y.; culling entries from 37 yea~• of 11!.Qdle Ea>t Jpurna1

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adds another 411 title& i8.~'l.).

t.IOROCCO Tifl£S THROUGH 1982 {H - 4,86l) •euoGltAPMC MllMCO

IO~(Jl.OJI

ano 10URCDc (16 .. 11) ~~ .... ,

How much o verlap i s ther• among th• b1bl1ographi•s~ Surpr151ngly little. Of th• 1,o77 title'" apoe•ring 1n th• •lev•n bibliographies co l lect i vely, n on• app•ar ln all eleven; only two titles appear 1n ten ot the bibliogr;aphi•s; eight t1tles appear in n ine of the bib I 1ographie'i; and nearly bOY. or the ti ties appear i n only one b1bl1oqraphy lf1gures range from two titles found onl y i n Howard, to 23~ unique to Findlay and 3b0 to th• Middle East Joyroall.

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The most complete of the b1bliograph1es are the follow1ng: Area handbook Jl6 titles Bennett 362 titles Findlay 456 titles ~ 679 t1tl"s

Using all lour of t hese, one would find l ,385 of the t1tles !8 3% J 1n a 11 e !ev en bi bl i ogn1 phies; om l t t 1ng the r:lil wou Id reduce th• s to 57%. With any two of the four, the bes t one could ha ve (w1th Findlay and MEJ I i!'. 61~.. Bear in mind that these percentages r "l ate to littl" more than a quarter o f the total 14,8631 Morocco titles identified.

The J,186 titles (6~ .~% of the total) not in those b1bllograph 1es at al 1 iHere found in a wide-range of )~5s- •cc essibJe sources 1 en d ­of - chapter bib I iographiRs 1 footnot1>s in scholar I y iourna Is, holdings in pri va te collections, my own res earch in Morocco. These other titles include much fiction with a Morocco setting. t r a ve l books on Spain and the Mediterranean that inc Jude chapt i>rs on Tangier ;md Morocco, pri va tel y printRd wor ks, bib I iogr<iph1es of literary and arti!'.tic personalities who spent some time in Morocco.

No t surprisingly, English is not the predominant language of works on Morocco.

WORKS ON MOROCCO, BY W4GUAGC "•4.u.1

llllDOt JH4 (14.o.)

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And, •s the tol lowint;1 hbl~ shows, the Am1H·1can .ind EnQ l ish bl bl i OQl'•ph111s o1.-e not st.-ong on non- EnQlish wo.-ks.

MEJ + th• TEN 0 T H E R

I.! H!!. l!J§RAe!::l I !1;[l § Q !.! RC ~ § T 0 I A L

FRENCH 681 26.07. 1943 7-f.07. 2624 100.07.

ENGLISH 870 f.7.17. 424 32.87. 1294 too.or.

SPANISH 45 6 . 77. 624 93.Jl'. 669 too.or.

OTHER _JIL ~z .. u.: ~ zo,n; ..:nJL.. l QQ , Q~

TOTAL 1677 -H.57. 3186 65.5% 4863 I00 .07.

The paucity of wo .-ks in Sp&nish is particula.-l y striking when one .-ealites that Sp&in &nd Morocco have b••n intim&tel y invol ved for s ome sev en hundred yea r s. Might this blblioQraphic weaknes s hav e c ont r ibut•d to the fact that in th• las t hund r ed years the r e has b••n only one American doctoral diss11 r tation on Spain's r•lati ons with Morocco?

Onc e a bibliograpnic database is est•bl i shed wi th fields tor such charact•ri .. tics as lanc;iua<,ies, author · s qende r , subject matter, date and place of publication , the pos sibil i ti•s for informati v e &nalysis multipl y .-apidl y. This is but a samplinc;i •. • from a lone b1blio11raph11r at her PC in Oenve.-.

Priscilla H. Roberts

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ANNEK I

AMERICAN ANO ENGLISH BIBLI OGRAPHIES CONSULTED

The "Ten " plus the Middle Et5t Journal

Amert c an Un1versity, Foreign Are• Studies Division. <:.eunt~tudv r fo rmerl y cal led Ariu hindbook tor Washinqton, O.C.1 Government Printing Office, 1986.

Morocco. • Morocco).

AU Y"h, George N. Thi! Con ternpor•ry ~ct9d and annottt1d biblioqr~.

f11ddle E;ist. 1948 -1973.L.~ Boston 1 G.K. Hall, 1975.

Bennett, Norman R. A Study Guide fer Morpcco . Studies Center, Boston University, 196B .

Bos ton1 Afr1can

Ettinghausen, Richard, ed. A Selectvd t o d Annotated Bibl1oqr•~ qt Books and Periodi£•li in Western LjnQyjQIS Dealing with the Near t!'ld Middle East with SoFCiil Emohtiis on Mediaeval and Modern !..i.m.ftl.. Washinqton, O.C.1 The Middle East Institute, 1952.

Findl•Y• Anne M., All•n M. Findlay, and Richard I. L01wless, compi lers. ~~· O~ford , England; S•nta Barbara, California• Clio Press, 1984, (World Bib liograph i c•! Series, vo l. 4 7)

Hopwood, Derek and Oitna Grimwood-Jones, ! s l am1 a Bibli ogrjphict l Introductio n . lnter Doc ument•t ion, 1972.

eds. Middle Eait • nd Zug, Switzerl•nd:

L ittlefield, Otvtd. The Islami c Middle E•st and lslam~n

Anno t • ted Gy ille to Bools1 ____ in ___ ~~..J..QL...Jign::.lall.!!.S:..i.il.l.1.lli • Li ttleton, Co1or1do 1 Libr •ries Unlimited, 1977.

tLUllll._ __ E;ist Jourotl. 1947-1984. Middle East Institute .

Wtshington, O.C . :

Moyer, Kenyon E. From l rtn to Moroc co . from Turkey to the Sydar:u_ t Se lected and Annpttted Bib liogr•phy of North African and th• Near iJ.ruL!jjddl9 E•st . New York1 Mission•ry Research Librtry , 1957 .

University of the State of New York, Foreign Aret M•terials Center , and National Counc il o1 Associations for lnternation•I Studi1t1 . !lld.SU!t Etst and North Africa; • Bibi i ograohy tor Underg r .. du.at@ Librtries. Compiled by H•rry How•rd, Edith Ehrm.an, Kathleen Htl• t n d W.ar d Morehou se. Willi tmsport, Pt.i Bro- D•rt Publi!>hing Co. , 1971.

Zuwiyyah, Jtlal. T~~tr Eas t ISoythwe1t A1i1 tnd North Africal..J._ ~ Bibliograph1 c S t yljy . Metuchen, N. J. 1 Sc arecrow Pres!>, 197 3 .

MELA Notes 41, Spr1nq 1qs7

ANNEX II

TEN NOST COMMONLY CITED TITLES

Found in ten of the bibliographies1

Stuart, Graham H. Thr !nternation..U.~ of Tana1er Westermarck, Edward. Ritual and Belief in Morocco.

And in ninl!t

Ashford, Douglas E. Palitic•l Chance in Morocco Brown, Leon Carl, ed. State and Society in Independent . North Africa 8erque, Jacque!!. Frvnc;h North Afr-ic;ai th• Maohrib between Two World War!I Coon, Carleton S. Caravant the Story of the Middl! East Gordon, David C. North A1ric;t'! French Legacy, l9~4-19b2

Halstead, John P, Rebirth of a Nation: the Origins and Rise of Moroccan Nationalism, 1912-1944 Landau, Rom. Morocctn Dram1, 1900-195' Zartmtn, I. William. Morocco: Problems of New Power

MELA Notes 47, Sprtnq 1909

lncreasinq Productivity and Public Satisfaction with Middle East and Judaic Library Services

through Use of • Personal COfllputer

In January, 1984, the decision to fully romantze cataloq record!i for mate,.-1als u1 Arabic, Hebr-E"w, Ottoman Turk1'ih. Pers1..a"• and V1ddtsh wa!i implemented .. t Tne Ohio State Untvers1 ty LtOrar te<> !OSULI.' In order to prov1de P'"trons w1tn access to .. t l e .. st a portton of the record in the vernacula r scr ipt, an e•tra OCLC card was produced tor each record, and returned to the Middle East IMEJJ and Jewish Studiea <JOSI sections wh1ch typed tne vernacular title o n the card and tiled them in title files in the read1nq rooms. Tempor .. ry slips for uncat .. loged materials were also t y ped and fil ed HI these ltlle tile$! corrtn>ponding romanized short records (author and t1 tle only I were entered into LCS, OSUL s on-1 ine c atal oq, whic h i!i not capable of dtspl,. y ing vernacular scr ipts.

The procedures for procassinq vernacular acQuis 1t1ons were taOo r ­intensive and reQuired that each piece be handled by a number of different people several times {see Illus. ll. The temporary slips u sed for the vernacul•r title files were either flimsy CMEJI, thus assuring a short life, or necessitated a separate card being typed <JDCI, In addition, little of this work could be used to notify facult y members of new accessions . MEJ produced in one copy only for circulation among a few faculty members an accessions lis t. consisting of photocopie s of the this slip (of six, which had been typed as part of the processing r out i ne and which freQuentlv was difficult to read, as well as producing an extremely bulky list.

In July, 1987, • M•cintosh SE was purchased for the joint use of both sections. By using FileMaker Plus, a database manager, two vernacular word processing proqrams (AlKaatib 1.2 and Mouaewrite 2 .171, •ond Switcher :i . 1 (a program which allows more than on" application to be open at th• same time), both units developed new proce!iising procedure• which significantly streaml1ned th!!lr workf lows and which enabled them to produce easy-to-read .. ccess1ons lists in multiple copies tor faculty members (see Illus . 21.

Essentially, the n•w procedures al lowed a single person, working at the computer, to assign a pre-cat (accessionsl number to each book, to create a romanized record, and to add the vernacular title to that record, in one workflow. Due to differences in the accessions lists, there are variations i n the routines of the two sections. The JDC accessions list c ontai ns only vernacul .. r materials and is completely 1n the vernacular scripts; this list is produced first, and the titles are then moved into the romanized processing records uging the "cut" and "paste" commands. New vernacular accesaions are only pa rt of the MEJ access i on ,. list, which a 1 so con ta ins western I anguaqe mater ia I and records for materials newly c;it•lor;ied; therefore, th• processing recor ds are cre;ited first and, <1fter being printed, the r e cord,; a r e then transferred to a new fde in which they are reformatted and

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integrated into tha other record~ . In dddition, each ~e~o~d in the MEJ accessions ligt i5 assigned a language code (Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Westernl on .. hich F1leM .. ker- Cdn ;art. Thu5, faculty memb.,r5 r"ceiving the MEJ I is ts can !!pee 1 fy in Hhlch of the language; th"Y are inter~sted.

The precessing records (see I 11 u5. 31 are pr ln ted twice. They are produced on 3/5 inch six-part carbonless forms. one of wt,1ch is removed and sent ta th~ Acquisitions Departm~nt for input into INNOVACO, an dutamated acquisitions system, and thence by tape-lead into LCS1 the remaining forms are placed in the back for use by the Cataloging Department. The records are then printed again on 3x5 inch hard c .. rd5 and filed in the vernacular ti~le files .

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The benefits of these new procedure5 have been enormous, First, the amount of time spent on processing has decreased, and each book is handled fewer times, both of which have been very popular with the staff member5 of the two sectionw. Dur to the clarity of the printing on the proce5sing forms and ta th• fact that the top form is; now used by the Acqui!litions Deipa.rtmeint 1 feiw_.r input ef"ror!I occur when the records a~e typed into INNOVACO by students with no knowledge of these languages. The title file cards for uncataloged materials now contain much more information, which i'5 ••tremely u se ful not only to patrons but also to th• staff of both sect ions in resolving problem5. Individual copi•• of the accessions li s t ha ve proven to be of great value to faculty members, who a r e now informed in a timely manner of new titles acquired by the Libraries and who are able to reque5t a book from the I ist for immediate cataloging and u5e by them.

Dona S. Straley Amnon Zipin

The Ohio State University Libraries

l. s .... Amno n Zipin, '"Romani:ed Hl!brew 5cript in the on - I ine catalog "t Thot Ohio State University Libraries", Judai c a Librari.anshiD 1 (19841, p. 53-571 Dona S. Straley, "Romani:ing Arabic s c ript cat.alog record5: trialw, tribulations and succes~ at Ohio Stat""• MELA~ '12 (1987), p. 8-13.

MELA Notes 4 7, S pr 1nq 1? 89

BOOK REVIEW

Diy i rat ;i.l-m.o•.ir if- i Tt$h.oyvu" Zfr - i nHar-i Ahmad Sadr HaJ j Savv 1d Javidf , Kimrin Fini , B.oh li' a 1-or.; Khurr.on,,;hJhf . Ti hr an: Buny~d-i lsl~mi-i !Shir, 1366 - [ 1qe7- <vol. 1 >

The e vent that brought Shi ' ism to the fo r e w•• the 19Jq revo lution i n lr-.on, which repl;u: ed thor Sh;i.h · s reqime b y .o Shr•ah fund;i.ment.olist QOv orrn ment to be led and domin;i.ted by clerics , with its f.or-r-e.ochinQ implications for- the Middle E;i.st and the world as a whole. Consi d ered by many Islamic countries as a hereti c al sect, Shi<ah ideology •nd schol.orship were not Qiven their det.erv@d sp.oces in encyclopedias and dictionar i es ;i.bout Islam compiled in Ar•b countries or in the West. Even tho•• compiled in Iran during the past h.olf century "did not tre•t Shi ' i sm adequatel y ". This is the claim of the Tahir Islamic Foundation , which, in spite of two m.o j or enc ycl o pedi.o projects on Iran and Isl.om undertaken since 1q 7 ~

<Dini s hnimah- ' i [rin v • !slim and Enc yclppedia l r anica), ha5 embarked upon this new project to " correct deficiencies and shortcoMings that eKisted in the ea r lier works,"

Thor introduction inc: lud•S a nJv iew . of s,.v,.ral important encyclopedias such .os piyirat a)-m•'lrit IslimTy.oh-i TrJn v4 htma~I-i M;a'Jrif-i ShI'ah-'i !sna "A1harfY;ah of CAbd aJ-"Azfz ~ l!;iib- i Ja vihi r , Diy ira t al -maclrif.j A "!JmT by Shaykh Mut;ammad ~usayn AC15mr MihrJlnT Hi'irT, Dlyirat al-mtcirif a!-ls!lmlyah •1-Shi<iyah (published i n Arabic in Beirut) , Encyclcp•dia of IJl•m, and Oini11hnamah-' i Trln v t lsl•M (whi c h was published from 1q75 to 1982 by Bunyid - i TarjuMth va Nashr - i Kitlb but did not continue bey ond " al-lkhvin al-MuslimCTn• .as th• la•t •ntry in Fascic l e 10) . No m"ntion is made of Enc:yclop1dia lranica in Enqlish, 1dit1d b y lh•an Yar'5h.atorr, of which the first fascicl• was publish"d by Routl•dQ" and K191n Ptul in 1982 and th• first bound volum" in 1985,

G1n•ral principles and th1 critrria applied in th1 compilation of th• 1ncyclop .. dia can be summariz1d asl 1) articl1s •r• based on Shi ' ah sources rath•r than on th1 .authors ' p1rson.ol opinions and pr1judic:•s1 2l Sunni sourc1s hav• be•n used for purpos•s of comparison, v1rification and 1mphasis1 ::Sl trtic:les ar1 descriptive, writt1n from historical p1rsp1cti v1s, and only occa•ional!y do they contain analysis or criticism1 41 most of the articl•s ar• short tnd treat sin91't subj1cts1 5) lonqer a r ticl•s dortlin9 with mor• tha~ on• subJorct ar1 divided up into s1ctions relatinq to thos• subjects! bl althouqh this is a sporcitliz•d work, articles ar• writt•n in as simplor Pl'rsiiln ts possibl•I and 7) Iran, boring the center of Shi' ism has r•c•ived sporcial t r eatm,.nt.

MELA Notes 47, SprlnQ 19H9 17

Th" proJect i5 to contain 20,000 article'll, non• translat"d from foreign languages. Its ma1n subJect" include Our>an, Hadith, theology, Islamic law, logic, philo!loptiy, gnostici,.m, biography, important historical event!I in Islam, geograptiical locations, Persian liter"•ture ... ith emphasis on 5hicah poets and scholars, Arabic literature with biographies of g r eat Shi~ah Arab scholars, art and arctiaeology, and important works of 5hIGah writers. ~pec1al emphasis is given to biographies at ShfCah scholars and their works as we 11 as their f ami Ii a I gen ea I og it.,.. More than 300 Shr'-ah scholarly families of Iranian or Arab origin have been described. The Arabic familial de5i9nation AL precl!'de" these entri""· A second category of family groups preced"d by BANI is ta be l1st~d

in volume 3. Featured are rnau.isoleums 9 !ihrines and histori~c1.l monuments ~ssociat"d with Shrcah leader5 and per•onalities all aver the Islamic world. More than 1,000 place!5 with cfescriptions of their architecture •nd histori•s •r• 1Pnvisaged. Historical geographies of cities and town5 conn@ct•d with Shi 1 ism ar11 yl!'t another distinguishing feature of this project. Publications used as !50urces of artic le!!i ar• 1 isled ;it th• end of each ar'tic le. Volume 2, which complete!5 entr'ie5 for th• lwtt•r A, is to include a cumulative listing of all sourc•s for all articl•s in the whole .... t'

A total of 30 author's, with 13 list•d as th• main contributors, are responsible for al I of the 20.000 articltts planned for the; set, Author5' nam•!5 are not giv•n at th• IPnd of articles, but the introductory part in velum• 1 lists th•m and give5 their responsibilities.

If compl1Pted succ1Pssfully, thi5 will b• a morlP comprehensiv,. r•f•rence work fer ShI'ah lsl•m than any others so far published. The cumulativ• bibliography , a• part of volum• 2, will itself be a very useful sourc• for th• study of various aspect" of Shi.ism.

Abazar Sepeh.-i University of Texa!!i at Austin

38 MELA Notes 47, Spring 1989

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBAARIES, Princeton, New Jer••Y•

Princeton Univer•ity Libraries are a major re9earch library which catalogs appro•imately 65,000 titles a year with a cataloging staff cf 25 professionals and 12 support staff. Princeton•• Near Ea•t collections are among th• most impo rtant in North America . This pos i tions ofhrr • th• opportunity to becom• part of a d yna"1i c , progre•sive, service-oriented operation which i• a recognized national leader in th• development of innovative approaches to cataloging •ppl ic:.tion• and innovative •olLJticn• to cataloging challeng••· It would provide the •~perienced profess i onal with a broad seep• of opportuniti•• for continued professional growth and development, or woLJld p r ovide th• new profession•! with a strong foundation for a career in any branch of acad•mlc librarianship,

Cata h><J•r, Libr .. rian I or 11, ~•r East T•••• Descriptions Perform• original subject and descriptiv •

cataloging of monographs in N•ar East•rn langu ages, u•ing the RLIN databa•e, AACR2, Libra r y of Congress subject h••dings and cl.n••ification. Prepar•s authority records "for input to t h• Library of Congr•ss Nam• Authoriti•s File (NACO). R•vis"" RLIN m .. mber copy to conform with national cataloging standards . Resolves problems , p•rforms 9•n•r•I d•p•rtm•nt•I duties and participat•• in sp•cial proj•ct• •• need•d.

Qualification•• A good r••din9 knowled9• of Ar•bic or Persian is r•quir•d, includin9 ability to romaniz•. Knowled9e of oth•r N•ar E••t l•nQu•g•• is d••ir•bl•. A b•ch•lor' • de9r•• i• required! an P1LS from •n ALA accr•dited libr•ry school •nd a subj•ct b•ck9round in the hum•nitie•, soci•l sci•nc•s or area stud i•s are p r e f•rred, Applicants shou Id have .. strono intl!r•st in bi bl iooraphic control of I ibrary mat•rials, 9ood .. nalytic:Al skit l•, th• Ability to adapt in a rapidly-changing autom .. t•d en v ironm•nt •nd th• •bility to work effectively with other library staff.

B•n•fitss 24 vacation days/ year, plus 11 paid holidays . AnnLJ ity progra~ (TIAA/ CREFI, 9roup life insurance, h•alth cov•r•g• in•urance, and disabi Ii tv insurance, .. 11 paid for by th• University. Position i• "vail•bl• 1 JLJne 1989. To ensur• full con•id•r•tion, candid at•• shou Id send applications, including r•sume and the nam••• title•, address ""d phone nu~b•r• of thr•• r•f•r•nc•• to be contacts, po•tmark•d by 1~ Hay 1989, tot

Cat .. loQer S••rch C01H1itt•• c/o Maria B. BoptPI, P•r•onn•l Librarian Princeton University Librari•• On• W•shington Road Princ•ton, NJ 08~44-2098

MELA Notes 4 7, S or1nq 19 89

51JLTAN OABOOS UNIVERSITY LIBRnRY, Sultanate of Oman :

AV/Media Librarian Re quirements: MLS, workin9 l<nowled9er of AV materr1•ls,

k n owledge of ~utom•tvd systems, extensiv e 11br&r y eMp~r1ence, at least 5 yrs. in university librar•es.

Salary : 980 Rials Omani/month (RO 1 % USS 2.581 B1tnefits1 Free housinq, ticket!I to and from place of

residence, paid annual home leave, bonus at end of contract. Send resume and cover letter to1

Director, Recruitment Officer Sultan Oaboos University P.O. Bo>< 32500 Al-Khod t1uscat SULTANATE OF Ot1AN

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LlllflARY, Chica90, lllinois1 J positions

Th" Uni verr11i ty of Chica90 Library holds over 5 mi 11 ion volu.,,es, recei v ePs 48,000 currernt serials and adds 100,000 volumes each year . The! Catalo9in9 Department is r•sponsibl• for catalo9in9 monog r aphic materials 1ucept for Chine"'"'• Jo1p.anese, and Kore.an, and in a 11 subjects e•capt law . Th• Serials Dl'!'partment acquire•" rercords, catalo9s, and binds serial mat•rials. All catalo9in9 an d processin9 acti v iti•s ar" Bupport"d by the Library ' s central dat.a man119em.,nt system. Thor Libr .. ry p .. rticip•tes in the National Coordinated Catalo9in9 Oper .. tions (NACOi and is a member of the National Coordinated Catalo11inq Pro9r•m INCCP) . Cooperative mono11raphic cataloging is performord online throu11h • direct computer link to th" Library of Con9ress database.

Mono9raphic Cataloger - 2 p0Bition91 Duti•• and responsibilities1 Under the superv ision of the

Head of th• Original Cataloging section, performs original cataloging of '"'"terials in a variorty of lan9ua9es, and in a wider ran9e of subjects1 appliors AACR2 rules and LC rule interprortations for bibliographic description1 porrforms related authority workl classifies materials accordin9 to LC classification systl'!'ml assi9n5 subject headings in accordancor with LCSH1 and may particip11te in sporcial projects such as NCCP and NACO and in the inteoration of OCLC mermber copy Into the local biblio9raphic system.

Education 1 Gr11duate dergrore in I ibrary '5Cierncer from an accredited librar y school rerquirord1 broad educational back9round in social science or humanities

E><perri•ncort 1 - 2 Y"•r11 "Kperience in an ac .. de,,.ic or re'5earch librar y pref•rred1 good knowled9e of AACR2 rules, Library of Congress ct .. ssification and '5Ubject analysis1 famili .. rity with Library of Congr•ss rule interpretations and good knowlerdger of MARC fo r mats .

Europll.an Lanqu'"g"s: lanquage is

Good know I edge of "'ore than oner wes torrn r•quir•d; in .. ddition, good knowledg" of

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Persi~n, Turki §h or Habr•w is r•Quired f or one o f lh• monograph1c catalog•r post ...

S•ri•ls Catalo9er1 Duties and r•sponsib i liti•s : under the "upervision of the

Head of the Ser i a ls Cataloging section, performs orig•nal c•talo9in9 of serials in a variet y of western European languages and in a wide range of subjects! applie5 AACRZ rules and LC rule interprvtations for bib I i ogr-.11phic descr ipti on; p1trform• r elated authority wo r k; c lassifies serials according to LC classification "yste~ and performs subject headings in a .:<:ordan c e with LCSH.

Education, EMpe r ience, Languaoes: Set! abov e under Monograph ic Catal o ger

Salary a n d benefits1 Appointment salary will be based on q ua lificati o ns and eMper i ence . Salary range begins at t22, 400 per year . Benefi ts inc lude •contributory retirement plan, health and life in5urance, 22 v acation days, b Uni v ersity holidays, S personal holid•ys, and '5ick ltrave. There i& a tuition benefit plan for college age and younger children. Letters of applic ation should include curriculu~ vitae a n d names, addresses, and telephonv numbers of three r eferences. Applications recelved b y 1 July 1909 will recei v• first consideration . Earl y applications will be considered for intervi•w• at the ALA annual meeting in Dallas. Pl•••• submit applic•tion to:

Personnel Off ic•r The Univ•rsity of Chic•oo Libr•rv 1100 East ~7th Stre•t ChicAgo, IL 60b37

ISRAELI FOREIGN RELATIONS DOCUMENTS AVAI LABL Et

lltff Consula te General o f lsr.!lel 1n New York has generou sly o ffe red tu make ava1lable to libraries, free of charge, the seventh vo lu me 11 I l~r!!!..tl ~-- foreign r:tl..iUQD_;;; _~lf:J; .t•ll. . .. d~!!'..l..!J.!..1....__l."tlU :- l~e;:, pub I I shed by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign At fa1r 5. Fu ture v nlumes may also be available.

r ·m · your c opy c ontact: Dr. T:ion Evrony Consu l for Academic Affa1rs Con su late General of Israel 800 Second Ave., l~th floor New York NY 10017 tel. I 212- 351 - 5272

tf111 1tarlier a nnouncemtlnt contained an incorrect addre"s listing. fhw IHH t or r egrets an y im;onvenience.

INTIF~pAH t1AlERIALS AVAILABLE

lntafl~ah mat•r ials published by Bisan Pre•s (publisher of f' ilt11~In a! - tho<rthl are availablt•, in limited numbers, from th"' l'•l•slin• Affairs Center in Wa.5hington. For furth•r information, 1, 1111tac t 1

l<halil Foutah Assistant Dir•ctor for Information Pal•stin• Affair s Center 1730 K St, NW, Suite 701 Washington DC 20006 t•l .1 202- 78~-8394

MELA Notes c/o Brenda E. Bickett Cataloging Dept. Georgetown University Library P.O. Box 37445 Washington, D.C. 20013 USA