Join UCLA Library for a presentation from 2026 Karmiole Fellow Garrett Davidson. Lecture title and additional details forthcoming.

The lecture will be followed by a display in the Distinctive Collections Classroom featuring selections from Library Special Collections' Islamicate and Arabic-script manuscript collection—the second-largest in North America.

Learn more about the Tekes Collection of Ottoman Persian and Arabic Manuscripts at Library Special Collections, UCLA Library’s Islamicate Manuscript Initiative to increase discoverability and access to these materials and the recently-awarded CLIR grant helping to fund digitization and curricular partnerships around these unique cultural heritage materials.

Dr. Davidson is the Director of the Asian Studies Program and associate professor of Arabic and Muslim World studies at the College of Charleston.