Records of the Center for Dialogues
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Abstract
The Center for Dialogues was established after September 11, 2001 to foster greater dialogue between "the Islamic World, the United States, and the West until its closure in 2015. The collection contains materials documenting the history and programming of the Center for Dialogues.
Historical Note
The Center for Dialogues was established after September 11, 2001 to foster greater dialogue between "the Islamic World, the United States, and the West." It was launched as a a forum and evolved into an institute that held conferences, published policy papers, and other programming. The Center was affiliated with the New School for Social Research from 2002-2005, and with NYU from 2005-2015. The Center closed at the end of January 2015. The Center reported administratively to the Office of the Provost.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist.
Content Description
Administrative records, correspondence, recordings (audio cassette/DVD/VHS), electronic records (direct transfer/3.5" floppy disks), realia, photographs, websites, and other materials documenting the history and programming of the Center for Dialogues.
Subjects
People
Conditions Governing Access
Material pertaining to individual student records may be restricted in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Please contact the Archives with specific questions regarding access to such records. Original accession is unprocessed and not available to researchers.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Records of the Center for Dialogues; RG 37.50; box number; folder number or item identifier; University Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Records of the Center for Dialogues; RG 37.50; Wayback URL; University Archives, New York University.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated by Mustapha Tlili in 2015. The accession number associated with this gift is 15.005. http://islamuswest.org/ was selected by Aleksandr Gelfand in 2015 and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In October 2022, https://nyucenterfordialogues.tumblr.com/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.088.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2022, the archived websites were added and the resource record was updated for ACM and DACS compliance. Processing decisions prior to 2022 were not recorded.
Repository
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Archived Websites
Scope and Contents
The Center for Dialogues was established after September 11, 2001 to foster greater dialogue between "the Islamic World, the United States, and the West." The website contains event descriptions, policy reports, photos from events, press clippings, video listings, the activities of founder and director Mustapha Tlili, and other resources. The organization focused on specific topics such as the Arab Spring, Islam and Elections, Iran-United States relations, Palestine and Israel, ISIL, Sunni and Shia, Tunisia, relations between the Muslim World and Christian Europe and the United States, and Turkey and Erdoğan. Also includes the tumblr page with articles written by Tlili and Aubrey Clark-Brown and a listing of their conferences from 2002-2014.
Appraisal
Scope was expanded to include Facebook and LinkedIn. The majority of the video in the website was not captured.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/5255/*/http://islamuswest.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/5255/*/https://nyucenterfordialogues.tumblr.com/