Poster from the Palestinian Political Poster collection

Arabic Block Print

Italian Jewish Community Broadside Collection

Tarīkh madīnat Dimashq is a biographical dictionary written by Ibn ʿAsākir, a 12th c. scholar who dominated political, cultural and educational life in Damascus then. It celebrates Syria and Damascus, and offers a glimpse onto the lives and…

This account of an early Western encounter with the Islamic East was written by the son of a coffee merchant, and was originally published in Amsterdam and in Paris in 1716 as Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse. It contains a description of the Arabian…