On May 8, experience the vibrant intercultural tapestry of Jewish and Islamic musical traditions from Spain and North Africa. From the eighth century onward, Southern Spain—known as al-Andalus—became a vibrant crossroads of faith and culture. Jews, Muslims, and Christians cultivated rich traditions in the arts, sciences, and music under the rule of Muslim caliphs.
The Library’s Asian Division is pleased to announce the digitization of the Hindi and Urdu editions of “Hindostan,” a propaganda newspaper for South Asian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Germany during World War I. The Asian Division is notable for having nearly complete runs of this pro-German newspaper, which was published in Berlin from March 1915 to August 1918. A total of 159 issues of the Hindi and Urdu editions are now freely available in the South Asian Digital Collection.
Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in Latin American Literature, after his recent passing highlighting his connections to the Library and its collections.
A new batch of fifty recordings from the PALABRA Archive (an audio archive dating back to 1943) featuring Luso-Hispanic writers are released as part of National Poetry Month.
On September 5, 2024, the African & Middle Eastern Division hosted a captivating lecture by Dr. Mohamad Hajji Mukhtar, a distinguished professor from Savannah University. The event titled “The Rise and Expansion of Islam in Somalia”, provided a journey into a lesser-known chapter of Islamic history.
The Library of Congress holds a wealth of primary and secondary sources in multiple types of formats on the study and recognition of Greek independence and Philhellenism. The blog post introduces readers to some of them.
(This post is by Nevila Pahumi, Reference Librarian for Modern Greek in the European Reading Room.) February 9 marks International Greek Language Day. In celebration, this blog post discusses modern Greek and the Library of Congress’ modern Greek collections. Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά) dates to the Renaissance. It is derived from Byzantine and ancient Greek, …
This blog post explores the posters included in the Minjuhwa Undong (South Korean Democratization Movement) collection housed in the Asian Division. It highlights how these posters, in conjunction with Minjung Art, vividly portray the key agents, objectives, and strategies of the democratization movement during the 1980s.
The Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress recently acquired a set of the writings of the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, which the author had presented to his daughter, Sophie. Today, on her birthday, we remember how Sophie and her family used to receive visits from the famous fairytale author, Hans Christian Andersen.
