MELA Notes
Parent: UC San Diego
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4m13f3tn | Archiving of Persian Classical Music in the Past Century | 778 | 146 | 632 | 18.8% |
| 84j9r6cc | The Albert Nekimken Turkish Theater Collection: Censorship, Contentious Politics, and the Cold War Stage | 361 | 117 | 244 | 32.4% |
| 9cg5j814 | Persepolis, 1960-1971: Material Culture, State Ideology, and Melancholic Contemplation on National Identity | 323 | 168 | 155 | 52.0% |
| 6h35t5zj | A Tradition of Stewardship: Documenting and Promoting Egyptian and Regional Heritage at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library, The American University in Cairo, Egypt | 272 | 69 | 203 | 25.4% |
| 83f78713 | From Court to Archive: The Mughal Imperial Library and the Institutional Afterlife of ʿArafāt al-ʿĀshiqīn | 258 | 179 | 79 | 69.4% |
| 2nx6x7h4 | Nasser Bakhshi’s Museum-Archive: Excavating the Hidden Layers of Memory | 240 | 163 | 77 | 67.9% |
| 0f68259r | Renaming (and Reshaping) The University of Edinburgh’s “Oriental” Manuscript Collection | 228 | 99 | 129 | 43.4% |
| 53j108xz | Solidarity Across Shelves: Children's Literature, Archives, and the Hijabi Librarians' Collective | 169 | 84 | 85 | 49.7% |
| 255176qt | Paleography and Textual Editing Practices in Afghanistan During the 20th Century | 168 | 59 | 109 | 35.1% |
| 26r806xs | A Library Worthy of a Prince: The Collection of Iʿtiżād al-Salṭana Qajar at the Sipahsālār Library | 154 | 80 | 74 | 51.9% |
| 6bs610dz | Muḥammad Ramaẓānī: A Bridge for the Transmission and Continuity of Written Heritage in the Transition from the Qajar to the Pahlavi Era | 153 | 70 | 83 | 45.8% |
| 20m5x64x | Keykāvūs Jahāndārī: A Key Figure in the Transition to Modern Librarianship in Iran, with a Focus on His Bibliographic and Iranological Contributions | 134 | 53 | 81 | 39.6% |
| 08m691cc | From Hamadan to Los Angeles; The Life and scientific legacy of Dr. Hooshang Ebrami from Shaping Iran’s Information Infrastructure and Founding Academic Librarianship to Cultural Activism in Immigration | 133 | 58 | 75 | 43.6% |
| 82p9v7gt | Strategic Preservation of Rare Books in Iranian Libraries: Toward a Context-Sensitive Policy Framework | 122 | 47 | 75 | 38.5% |
| 6pb9b7vv | Mahdavi: The Myth of Middle East exceptionalism: Unfinished Social Movements | 109 | 30 | 79 | 27.5% |
| 8r42h324 | Middle East Studies Beyond the Middle East Archive – Promises, Predicaments and Practices of MENA research in Western Governmental Archives | 97 | 29 | 68 | 29.9% |
| 2745j4gx | Shaikh & Seedat: The Women’s Khutbah Book, Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice From Around the World | 89 | 27 | 62 | 30.3% |
| 8w78r5tp | MELA Business Meeting 2022 | 84 | 28 | 56 | 33.3% |
| 3js1s3pr | Brookes: On the Sultan’s Service: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s Memoir of the Ottoman’s Palace, 1909-1912 | 82 | 19 | 63 | 23.2% |
| 84639720 | Advertisement | 80 | 25 | 55 | 31.3% |
| 3567251f | Merhavy: National Symbols in Modern Iran: Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory | 67 | 17 | 50 | 25.4% |
| 196906q4 | Fahmy: In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt | 65 | 31 | 34 | 47.7% |
| 31k3r057 | MELA Business Meeting 2023 | 65 | 32 | 33 | 49.2% |
| 81b8g6wd | Nūshāfarīn Anṣārī and the Development of Librarianship and Children’s Literature in Iran | 65 | 37 | 28 | 56.9% |
| 8z30h05h | El-Ghobashy: Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situtation | 64 | 29 | 35 | 45.3% |
| 43k6n0w9 | Marr: Egypt at the Crossroads: Domestic Stability and Regional Role | 62 | 28 | 34 | 45.2% |
| 7847x7dr | Table of Contents | 62 | 29 | 33 | 46.8% |
| 9n24n73p | Editor's Note | 62 | 22 | 40 | 35.5% |
| 94g4s53r | Biography of Nūshāfarīn Anṣārī | 57 | 17 | 40 | 29.8% |
| 4vh6t18n | Frontmatter #97, 2025 | 55 | 18 | 37 | 32.7% |
| 1jm7d6v8 | Table of Contents | 54 | 15 | 39 | 27.8% |
| 1v6909c5 | Front Matter | 54 | 16 | 38 | 29.6% |
| 56k6551q | Ahsan-Tirmizi: Pious Peripheries: Runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan | 53 | 23 | 30 | 43.4% |
| 6k70v9rz | Libraries of Care: Nushafarin Ansari and Feminist Democracy in Iranian Librarianship | 53 | 16 | 37 | 30.2% |
| 8j2602v2 | The Impact of Noushafarin Ansari on Increasing Women’s Cultural Participation in Iran | 53 | 9 | 44 | 17.0% |
| 97x240j3 | Table of Contents | 51 | 12 | 39 | 23.5% |
| 5d97w21g | Editor's note | 46 | 21 | 25 | 45.7% |
| 8d07t564 | Reviews | 43 | 6 | 37 | 14.0% |
| 1v53b0sg | Introduction to the Special Issue: Nūshāfarīn Anṣārī: Books, People, and Institutions | 35 | 6 | 29 | 17.1% |
| 1kq1f5wm | Nūshāfarīn Anṣārī Noush-Afarin Ansari and the Development of Social Librarianship in Iran | 34 | 7 | 27 | 20.6% |
| 0909109k | Frontmatter | 33 | 5 | 28 | 15.2% |
| 16694637 | Nush-Afarin Ansari and the Children’s Book Council of Iran: Cultural Institution-Building, Organized Voluntarism, and the Logic of Sustainability | 32 | 6 | 26 | 18.8% |
| 4kf7w4p6 | Bibliography of Nūshāfarīn Anṣārī | 31 | 11 | 20 | 35.5% |
| 6pb3g1j8 | Editor's note | 29 | 5 | 24 | 17.2% |
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