diff --git a/PROJECTS.json b/PROJECTS.json
index 17cb58d58..a67db572d 100644
--- a/PROJECTS.json
+++ b/PROJECTS.json
@@ -411,6 +411,10 @@
     "title": "Middle East Librarians Association",
     "path": "/PROJECTS/mela/"
   },
+  "5e47c830-a6f5-43f5-aa26-cc57bff2115b": {
+    "title": "The Middle East Virtual Library",
+    "path": "/PROJECTS/menalib/"
+  },
   "aec92ee9-7c8a-49ce-8491-46667fc75505": {
     "title": "Memory Spaces: Mapping Oral History in Mosul",
     "path": "/PROJECTS/mesmom/"
@@ -686,6 +690,10 @@
   "9ca46873-3089-4a04-99fa-89c0c1b01213": {
     "title": "Understanding Written Artefacts",
     "path": "/PROJECTS/understanding_written_artefacts/"
+
+
+
+
   },
   "a2984fec-9396-488e-ad56-d3d21dc49052": {
     "title": "Verse und Sprueche: Impulse und Reichweiten wissenschaftlicher und popularisierender Diskurse im arabischen Sprachraum",
diff --git a/PROJECTS/furqan/29603647-10fb-4843-aaab-b9a621c72275.json b/PROJECTS/furqan/29603647-10fb-4843-aaab-b9a621c72275.json
index f05fa29f8..00099c632 100644
--- a/PROJECTS/furqan/29603647-10fb-4843-aaab-b9a621c72275.json
+++ b/PROJECTS/furqan/29603647-10fb-4843-aaab-b9a621c72275.json
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         "manuscript"
       ],
       "category": "digital_preservation",
-      "comment": "project has no affiliation with a university, manuscripts based on a survey conducted in the 1990s"
+      "comment": "project has no affiliation with a university, manuscripts are based on a survey conducted in the 1990s by the foundation."
     }
   }
   
diff --git a/PROJECTS/ismi/725a2604-9720-4dad-b82e-a0f2e98f707f.json b/PROJECTS/ismi/725a2604-9720-4dad-b82e-a0f2e98f707f.json
index 79a7b68b2..a4459af62 100644
--- a/PROJECTS/ismi/725a2604-9720-4dad-b82e-a0f2e98f707f.json
+++ b/PROJECTS/ismi/725a2604-9720-4dad-b82e-a0f2e98f707f.json
@@ -92,11 +92,10 @@
         "biographical_data",
         "catalog",
         "digital_preservation",
-        "history_studies",
+        "image",
         "islamic_studies",
         "manuscript",
-        "science_history",
-        "visualization"
+        "science_history"
       ],
       "category": "digital_preservation",
       "comment": "Project is still hosted by the MPIWG, yet operated lastly from Medeniyet University Istanbul"
diff --git a/PROJECTS/menalib/5e47c830-a6f5-43f5-aa26-cc57bff2115b.json b/PROJECTS/menalib/5e47c830-a6f5-43f5-aa26-cc57bff2115b.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6bd23774f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PROJECTS/menalib/5e47c830-a6f5-43f5-aa26-cc57bff2115b.json
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
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+      "record_created_on": "2024-10-24",
+      "record_created_by": "Sido Bozan, Joudy",
+      "last_edited_on": "",
+      "interviewed": false
+    },
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+      "abbr": "MENALIB",
+      "type": "project",
+      "ref": [],
+      "date": [{ "from": "2016", "to": "" }],
+      "maintained": true,
+      "websites": [
+        "https://www.menalib.de/en/"
+      ],
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+      "places": [
+        {
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+            "text": "Halle (Saale)",
+            "ref": ["https://www.geonames.org/2911522/"]
+          },
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+        }
+      ],
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+          "org_name": {
+            "text": "Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt",
+            "ref": [
+              "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1600777",
+              "https://ror.org/03c241w53"
+            ]
+          },
+          "websites": ["https://bibliothek.uni-halle.de/"]
+        },
+        {
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+          "org_name": {
+            "text": "Webis",
+            "ref": []
+          },
+          "websites": ["https://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/webis/index.php/Webis_-_Sammelschwerpunkte_an_deutschen_Bibliotheken"]
+        }
+      ],
+      "related_entities": [],
+      "contacts": [
+        {
+          "pers_name": { "text": "Adam, Volker", "ref": [
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+              "https://d-nb.info/gnd/123956951"
+            ] 
+          },
+          "roles": ["supervision"],
+          "websites": [
+            "https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/people/management/eteaching-coordinator"
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
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+          ],
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+              "licensing": [],
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+            }
+          ]
+        }
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+        "backend": [],
+        "frontend": [],
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+        ],
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+      },
+      "policies": [{ "description": "", "ref": [] }],
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+        "catalog",
+        "digital_preservation",
+        "iranian_studies",
+        "islamic_studies",
+        "semitic_studies",
+        "turkology"
+        
+      ],
+      "category": "digital_preservation",
+      "comment": ""
+    }
+  }
+  
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