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The Near East Section retains custody of materials in over 40 languages of the area known as the Near East, including the countries and peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The main linguistic groupings- Arabic, Armenian, Central Asian, Georgian, Persian, and Turkish and Turkic Armenian, Georgian–form the basis of a particularly potent and vital research center on all things Middle Eastern. Its specialists are available for briefings, for rapid and long-term reference and research assistance, and for detailed bibliographic and subject analyses.
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Founded in 1841, the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations offered the first formal program of study in Near Eastern languages in the United States. Early department faculty, such as Edward Salisbury, produced the first American scholarly studies on Arabic and Islam, cuneiform studies, and Semitic epigraphy, and founded and edited the first professional journal in America devoted to Oriental Studies.
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The University Graduate Library is the main depository for Near Eastern Collections. The collections which are maintained and supervised by a Near Eastern bibliographer, contain more than 329,785 monograph titles, 1,158 serial titles, and 32 current newspapers. Of these titles, approximately 195,000 are in the languages of Middle East and North Africa: Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Turkish and several others. Particular collection strengths lie in ancient and modern history of Near East, modern Arabic and Hebrew literature, Hebrew Bible, the ancient Near East, and politics of Near East. A Near Eastern Reference Room is maintained in the library, containing important encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, and other reference works, and ... provides study space for Near Eastern Studies students. For more information, visit the Near Eastern Division and the Harlan Hatcher University Library websites.
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The years after the Great Depression saw shifts in the balance between wealth and poverty on the Near North Side. City officials tried to erode the western slum by replacing part of it with the Frances Cabrini Homes. By 1982, the high-rise Cabrini Extension and William Green Homes constituted a new neighborhood—Cabrini-Green. Deterioration spread eastward... and the promise of public housing in Chicago was not fulfilled.
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The Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology houses collections from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Materials from Egypt, Iraq, Greece, Cyprus, and Syria are included among these, most notable are the exhibits from the Michigan excavations at Karanis in Egypt and Seleucia in Iraq.
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