Libraries of the Middle East

Shared Heritage Online

The collaborative digital library of the BnF and its partners, bringing together public domain documents on the history, cultures and societies of the Near and Middle East

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Partners and Contributors

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Symposium

Libraries of the Middle East

June 20, 2024 at the BnF

Watch the recording

Institute of the Arab World, Paris, 3 April-2 Novembre 2025

Treasures Saved from Gaza: 5000 years of History

See the exhibition

Institute of the Arab World, Tourcoing, 20 Septembre 2025-11 January 2026

Baghdad : Rediscovering Madinat Al-Salam

See the exhibition

Shared Heritage