The Impact of CRL
Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.
![Filistin Biladi, April 1980. Monthly publication issued by Tokyo office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Filastin%20Biladi%20041980_edited.jpg?itok=hC4qMPfi)
Unique Arab Diaspora Materials Saved for Future Scholars
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) microfilmed Arab-language publications from several diaspora communities in non-Arab countries, continuing to affirm MEMP’s role as a provider of rare and distinctive documentation.![al-Yawm, August 20, 1950, p. 4. Letter to the editor decrying lack of medical services in a small town, hoping “our screams will not be in a valley but will find receptive ears from the authorities.”](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Al-Yawm%20Image%20for%20website_0.jpg?itok=mT_KEIVI)
Insights on Israel’s Palestinians from a Rare Arab-language Newspaper
CRL's newspaper collection played a critical role in shaping Brothers Apart, a study of Arab Israeli citizens in the 1950s-1960s by University of Arizona professor, Maha Nassar.![Official Gazette of Iraq, June 17, 2003. From Global Justice Project: Iraq. S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Iraq-Gazette-Image-crop.jpg?itok=tVSeW6P2)
Documenting the Legal Record of Precarious Regimes
CRL’s Official Gazettes and Civil Society Documentation website offers published versions of new laws, legislative debates, and court decisions from at-risk regimes.![Shigal Tarna garrison, Afghanistan, 1987. Erwin Franzen https://www.flickr.com/photos/erwinlux/with/1002019852/](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Afghanistan_1200x400.jpg?itok=xjquvYBU)
Afghan Documentation Spans Tumultuous Century
Daily newspapers and cultural journals collected by LC's Field Office in Islamabad have been preserved through the efforts of MEMP and SAMP.![26th MEU Secure Freeport of Monrovia, 2003. Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/26th_MEU_secure_Freeport_of_Monrovia.jpg?itok=BokGlrkC)
Preserving News from Conflict Zones
CRL programs aim to preserve "first drafts of history" from zones of conflict throughout the world.![Mosque, Bursa, Turkey (between 1890-1905). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, ppmsc 0600, from Wikimedia.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Bursay_Turkey_photochrom_cropped.jpg?itok=9RCbv0k7)