NYPL's first-ever Curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies on the traces of history left in manuscripts and clubbing alone

meet hiba abid

meet hiba abid

If you find yourself wandering through the stacks at The New York Public Library, you might run into Hiba Abid, the Library’s first-ever Curator of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies — she spends most of her time on the second floor of the flagship location in Bryant Park, but she loves the Library Services Center in Queens, too. When she’…