Network of Arab independent research institutes in the US & Europe. Includes the Arab Democracy Index (2008-)

Respected organization based in Washington DC & Beirut. Its ezine Jadaliyya offers useful information on current events in the region.

Digitised interviews on gender & politics with 96 women across the Middle East, collected 2013/14 by academic Nicola Pratt. Hosted on the growing Digital SOAS platform (SOAS is the major specialist library for African, Asia & Middle East studies in the UK)

Part of the START Terrorism Data Archive, hosted on Harvard Dataverse. MAROB covers 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa over the period 1980-2004. It provides information on the characteristics of 22 ethnopolitical organizations most likely to employ violence and terrorism in pursuit of perceived grievances.

The mission of The Washington Institute is to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them

Digitised archive of video, photos, and documents from the 2011 uprisings.

Interactive and regularly updated map indicating the worldwide reach of Hezbollah from the 1980s onwards in terms of plots/attacks; finance/logistics; counterterrorism. Created by Matthew Levitt (author of Hezbollah, 2nd ed., 20024)

Official gazette of the Palestinian National Authority (in Arabic, 1994-), digitised by the Institute of Law, Birzeit University