Q Life Magazine Q Magazine December 2016 | Page 38
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The British Library
Qatar Foundation
Partnership
In June this year, Her Highness
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al
Missned met with His Holiness
the Pope in Vatican City, where
an agreement was signed between
the Vatican Library and the Qatar
National Library, along with the
Qatar Foundation, to digitise the
Vatican’s manuscripts relating to the
Gulf and other Islamic regions.
This is the most recent library
digitisation programme that Qatar
has undertaken. In January 2013,
the British Library and Qatar
Foundation entered into a long-
term partnership to create an
online resource portal documenting
the Islamic world, Arab cultural
heritage, and the modern history of
the Gulf.
Described by Oliver Urquhart-
Irvine, who leads the partnership, as
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