The Area Studies subject guide gives you access to useful library databases and trusted Web resources, relevant for researching many topics with a geographic focus
Useful blog which originated from New York University in 2010 and offers links to good open access resources, such as historical newspapers & periodicals
Arab Council for the Social Sciences initiative to bring together open datasets from or about the Arab region. Includes economic, survey, geospatial, and public opinion data (including Arab Barometer). Highlight is the MENA Historical Data Archive - a major collection of more than 1,000 statistical yearbooks from 8 countries in the region, which were published from 1867- onwards
Respected independent institute based in Washington DC that produces and disseminates analysis of Middle East events through various means, including its ezine Jadaliyya - https://www.jadaliyya.com/
Major portal from the Council on Library & Information resources (US) and others to digitised collections around the world on all aspect sof the Middle East
Website from the Arab Cultural Trust, includes nearly 400 full-text searchable e-books on astronomy, history, mathematics, poetry, medicine, geography, religion, music, and audio recordings of poetry and literature
Book discovery platform created by the Daleel Al-Nashirin project that supports small Arab publishers & helps readers explore different ideas, events, and cultures through the works of authors from the Middle East
Founded in April 2014, Middle East Eye is a digital news organisation covering stories from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as related content from beyond the region. It offers on-the-ground news, comment and analysis that brings local viewpoints to the fore. Note: MEE source of funding is not indicated, but believed to be from Qatar
Qalamos provides direct access to metadata and digitised copies of Oriental manuscript collections in Germany. It comprises approximately 135,000 manuscript datasets from Asian and African script traditions (primarily Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Turkish)
International collaborative research project exploring 20th century anti-colonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. Outputs include a directory of key publications, browsable by geography, date, theme, language
Online access to the content of 228 Arabic literary journals, from 23 Arab countries, dating from the early Arab renaissance (al Nahda) in the mid-nineteenth century onwards
ACRPS was established in 2010 as an independent social sciences and humanities research institute, which also fosters links between researchers and organisations in the Arab world and beyond
The Middle East Institute in Washington DC has the largest Oman collection outside the Library of Congress, and has digitised a large number of rare books and manuscripts from 1700 onwards
Aims to preserve Iranian & diaspora web archive snapshots from the Woman, Life, Freedom mass protest movement of Iran, which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini
230 manuscripts written in Hebrew or cognate languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Yiddish. It is a highly diverse collection with materials ranging from rabbinic responsa and commentary to poetry, Jewish magic, and folk medicine
Bibliographic database of journal article references on all aspects of Jewish studies, taken from journals in Hebrew, English & other European languages since 1966
Very interesting digital-born project by Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Film, Freie Universität Berlin). Retraces and maps the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America.
Conceived by the Institute for Palestine Studies (Beirut) as part of a joint project with the Palestinian Museum, The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question traces the history of modern Palestine, from the end of the Ottoman era to the present.
