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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:09:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mesut Uyar <uyarmesut@...>

Dear All,

I guess many H-Turk members are not aware of a very important digital archive of Ottoman periodicals,
namely the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection. I decide to introduce this important source after seeing
frequent requests about different Ottoman periodicals.

Beyazıt State Library (İstanbul) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies started an important project
to digitilize the holdings of the library. I'm giving an excerpt from the project web portal.

"As is well known, the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection is one of the best private collections of books and
periodicals. After Mr. Hakkı Tarık Us (1889-1956) passed away, an independent library was founded
within the Sibyan Mektebi of the Beyazıt comlex to keep the collection, which was managed by a newly
founded vakıf. For many years, this library was visited by numerous researchers and readers. Yet, in
order to ease its administration, in 2003, it was decided that the library should be transferred to the
Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and, consequently, began to be kept in the Beyazıt State Library.
During its preservation at this library, the Center for Documentation and Area-Transcultural Studies
of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies proposed a joint project with the Turkish Ministry of Culture
and Tourism, for the preservation and utilization of the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection. With the signing
ceremony on August 25, 2003, the “Project for Preservation and Digitization of Periodicals in the
Hakkı Tarık Us Collection” was started. After an interruption between 2007 and 2009, the project was
continued within the framework of the “Research and Educational Project of the Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies” at the same university, before being completed as a whole in March 2010."

You can download available titles and issues either page by page or as a group. The project is still ongoing
and you might not happy to see that your beloved journal/newspaper is not digitized yet. But do not worry
they are adding new journals and newspapers. So do not forget to visit the portal frequently.

Web portal - http://www.tufs.ac.jp/common/fs/asw/tur/htu/

Regards

Mesut Uyar, Ph.D.
Turkish Military Academy
http://kho-akademik.academia.edu/MesutUyar
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:32:15 +0100 (BST)
From: Caspar Hillebrand <reenpier@...>

Dear Till,

You can find a few issues of "Suriye" under this link:
http://www.tufs.ac.jp/common/fs/asw/tur/htu/list2.html#s.

Best,

Caspar Hillebrand
PhD candidate,
Bonn University

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New book for review in MELA notes

Re: Locating the provincial gazette & other Damascenenewspapers of late Ottoman times

Also try the Turkish National Library's web site they have catalogue for
all the Turkish Ottoman periodicals they have  (pdf format)

http://sureli.mkutup.gov.tr/pdf/katalog.pdf 

Also IRCICA and Ministry of Culture Syrian Arab Republic jointly
published this title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Bilad al-Sham during the Ottoman Era Damascus, 26-30 Sept. 2005.--
Istanbul, 2009

Best wishes,

Magdy

Magdy A. Hosny
Turkish Specialist (Acq. & Cataloging)
Library of Congress, Cairo Office
American Embassy, Cairo, Egypt
Tel: + 202 2792 2176
Fax: +202 2796 0233
Mobile: +2 010 250 7919
e-Mail: mhos@... 

>>> "Riedlmayer, Andras" <riedlmay@...> 03/31/11 5:27 AM
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response to his address <Grallert@...> as well as to the
list.
Thanks,
AR
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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:36:45 +0200
From: Till Grallert <Grallert@...>

Dear Colleagues,

For my research project on the social history of Damascus between 1870s
and 1920s and the production of public places and public space through
collective action, I am desperately trying to locate local newspapers.
Prior to 1908, these are

a) Suriye, the province's official gazette published in Arabic and
Ottoman.
b) al-Shām; according to Philip di Tarazi published from 1896 onwards.
Yet, Beiruti newspapers reported the concession being granted in
December 1891.
c) Dimashq; 1878-87.

Most prominently I am searching for copies of Suriye. No library or
archive in the region (Syria, Lebanon, and the Başbakanlik archives in
Istanbul) seems to hold any but a very few copies. The same is true for
the otherwise vast Middle Eastern newspaper collections of libraries in
Germany, France, Britain, or the US. I just discovered that Martha Mundy
mentions in a footnote to her 2007 book that the Millet Kütüphanesi in
Istanbul holds some 500 successive numbers dating from the 1860s. I have
not made it there yet, but the somewhat limited online catalogue does
not make claims to any later holdings.

I would thus deeply appreciate any hint towards possible collections be
they as vague as they may.

Thank you very much.

Best,

Till Grallert

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PhD Candidate
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Freie Universität Berlin

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14195 Berlin
Germany

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Recorded conversations in Arabic

I have someone who is looking for a corpus of recorded conversations in 
Arabic.  This is not for teaching materials.  They want actual 
recordings of meetings or literal transcripts including pauses and 
non-verbal utterances (uhs, ahs, ums etc.) As they describe it:
"We have an ongoing project looking at the linguistic features that 
people use in various interactions to indicate the social structure of 
the interaction.  We have been looking for a suitable collection for 
Arabic, but we have not yet been successful...Specifically, we are 
looking for audio recordings and the associated transcripts for meetings 
of three or more people. It really should be a series of meetings that 
have recurring participants. The style should be relatively informal.

Do any of you out there possess any such recordings or transcripts or 
know where they might be located?
Thanks,
John

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Recorded conversations

Thanks to those who responded to my query on recorded conversations.  
Unfortunately they do not meet our researchers criteria.  They do not 
need scripted materials intended for teaching Arabic.  They need actual 
recordings of repeated meetings of groups, committees, etc. that have 
not been edited.  They would like a number of meetings of the same group 
of people discussing common matters.  I fear that such material may be 
difficult to locate thus I put out my query to the MELA list.
John

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