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Laila Hussein
Middle East & North African Studies Librarian
Assistant Professor, University Library
lhoussei@illinois.edu
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New Middle East Books
The following materials are all FREE and OPEN ACCESS web resources. They have been divided into the following categories:
Interactive Maps
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univeristy
Professor Lauren Gardner , a civil and systems engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, built the dashboard with her graduate student, Ensheng Dong. It is maintained at the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering, with technical support from ESRI and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Gardner is co-director of the CSSE. The map was shared with the world on January 22, 2020.
MeD-MeM: Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage
Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem) offers the general public some 4000 audiovisual documents from the countries in the Mediterranean area. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are accompanied by a trilingual documentary note (in French, English and Arabic).
Virtual Walking Tour of the Alhambra
Provides a virtual 360 degree walking tour of Spain’s Alhambra, one of the great masterpieces of Islamic architecture.
Internet Projects & Research
News
- World News Connection (FBIS and JPRS): online access to nearly immediate full text English translations of current non-U.S. media sources
- Middle East Newspapers and News Sites
Cambridge Histories Online
This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives (ETANA)
ETANA (Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives) has digitized, and continues to digitize, texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies.
Mamluk Bibliography Online
The Chicago Online Bibliography of Mamluk Studies is an on-going project of the Middle East Documentation Center at the University of Chicago, the aim of which is to compile comprehensive bibliographies of all primary sources relating to the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria, as well as all research and discussion–scholarly and popular–germane to the subject.
ASK Working Paper
Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg . History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250 – 1517)
Middle East Microform Project (MEMP)
The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) preserves on microform unique, rare, hard to obtain, and often expensive research material for Middle East studies. It also preserves deteriorating printed and manuscript scholarly materials.
The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide
This guide was created by Professor Joseph W. Roberts but was no longer maintained. Feeling that it would provide valuable resources to visitors who are interested in the subject, it is not updated and maintained by Samuel Chong of Pasadena City College, in order to serve the needs of scholars, students, and interested individuals in finding and using internet resources dealing with the Middle East.
Online Archive of California (OAC)
The OAC allows free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. The OAC contains more th 220,000 digital images and documents including a significant amount of material related to the Middle East and North Africa.
Ottoman History Podcast
Beginning in March of 2011 as an experiment aimed at finding an alternative form of academic production that explores new and more accessible media, the Ottoman History Podcast records interview and lectures that provide serious and constructive academic discussion in an easy to understand format.
Oxford University Research Archive
Research publications, research, and dissertations from the University of Oxford.
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran
This digital archive of women in Qajar Iran contains a wide array of writings, manuscripts, legal documents, artwork, photographs, and oral histories. The website is available in both English and Farsi.
Online Bibliographies & Resource Compilations
Bibliography of Books About Women in the Middle East
Many of the entries were taken from the book, Women in the Middle East and North Africa: an Annotated Bibliography by Ayad al-Qazzaz which includes abstracts. A few other abstracts have been included for more current works and, over time, more abstracts will be added.
History in the News: The Middle East
This excellent site, produced by the Department of History at the State University of New York-Albany, maintains links to other sites that cover Middle Eastern culture, economics, geography, history, politics, religion, etc. Bibliographies of both electronic resources and more traditional materials are available at many of the linked sites.
Human Rights Organizations & Resources
This page contains names of human rights organizations, other organizations doing substantial amounts of human rights work, and resources (such as libraries and internet-based information) of use to human rights activists and researchers.
Islam: A Bibliography
A list of English-language works on all subjects compiled in 2003 by Patrick S. O’Donnell, Santa Barbara City College.