Selector for these areas:

• Arabic Studies
• Islamic Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Near Eastern Languages, except Hebrew
• Near Eastern Languages, Persian Specialist
• Turkish Imprints

Librarian for these majors:

• African Studies
• Modern Middle East Studies
• Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Associations:

MELA (Middle East Librarians Association)
MELCOM (UK) (Middle East Libraries Committee UK)
MELCOM International (European Association of Middle East Librarians)
MESA (Middle East Studies Association)

Links:

African Collection on Facebook
African Collection on Yale Library page
Near East Collection on Facebook
Near East Collection on Yale Library page

Publications:

• Dance and the Dancer in Egyptian Film. Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2005: 145-171.
  Available in Orbis http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7158566.
• Badia Masabni, Artiste and Modernist: the Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000: 243-268.
  Available in Orbis http://orbexpress.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=4639196.
  Available http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8k4008kx&chunk.id=ch11&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch11&brand=ucpress.
• Review of Fahras makhtutat bad al-maktabat al-khassah fi al-Yaman. MESA Bulletin : (1996).
• Review of Fahras makhtutat Dar al-Wathaiq al-Qawmiyah al-Nijiriyah bi-Kadun. MESA Bulletin : (1996).
• Review of The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. Digest of Middle Eastern Studies (DOMES) 5:1 (1996): 89-92.
• Review of Umm Kulthum: a Voice like Egypt. MESA Bulletin : (1996).
• Review of Bedouins of Qatar. Digest of Middle Eastern Studies (DOMES) 4:1 (1995): 58-63.
• Review of The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press. SHARP News (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) 4:4 (1995): 3-4.

Skills and Services:

Language: Arabic, Language: Persian, Language: Turkish (basic)