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Projects preserved and digitized with grants administered by UCLA Library’s Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) highlight archives and community stories from South America, the Middle East, Asia and beyond. Take a behind-the-scenes look at current MEAP digitization projects and some of the materials which may soon be published on the UCLA Library Digital Collections site for access by researchers, students and other scholars.

Amé Archive in Argentina documents over 100 years of photography, style, social relationships and urban transformations, capturing memories of the La Pampa region. Community members were invited to help the project team identify images from the archive. Here, the hand of Ofelia Amé is seen as she identifies members of her family.
The news program “El Mundo al Día” was broadcast daily on the Dominican Republic’s first television station from 1954 to 1996. Here, the project team cleans film canisters as they meticulously work to save a moving image archive that documents significant events in the Dominican Republic throughout the 20th century.
The Photo Jack photography studio in Tripoli, Lebanon captured the diversity of northern Lebanon and its communities from 1939 to 1997. Digitization of the Photo Jack collection, held by the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, includes approximately 45,000 photographs on 1250 rolls of 35mm film, depicting public spaces and private events.
Peshawar University librarians are helping to catalogue and digitize endangered archives of Sufi monasteries and shrines within the Pashtun tribal regions on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier. Digitization of these materials will result in preservation of texts in Persian, Pashto, Arabic and Urdu languages, revealing a rich sacred tradition preserved by local stakeholders.