DFAJ is the first directory of free online scholarly full text journals published in the Arab world. Included are journals covering all branches of human knowledge published by various scientific and academic bodies in 17 Arab countries. In Arabic, English, and French.

East View and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) launched the charter phase of the GPA CRL Alliance in 2019 to develop a special series of collections for the East View Global Press Archive (GPA). With a focus on providing global access to a wide selection of newspapers from around the world, the GPA CRL Alliance has successfully released eight collections to date, including five Open Access collections:

• South Asian Newspapers (Open Access)
• Southeast Asian Newspapers (Open Access)
• El Caribe Digital Archive (CRL-wide access)
• East African Newspapers (CRL-wide access)
• Imperial Russian Newspapers (Open Access)
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (Open Access)
• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers (Open Access & CRL-wide Access)
• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (Open Access)

EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) is a collection of the University of Chicago Library's image-based texts, i.e., digital facsimiles. These historical accounts and primary sources, which range from 1485 to the early 20th century, offer rare glimpses into the ancient world. Although the full texts are not searchable, users can navigate through these digital facsimiles using the digital tables of contents and the page turner or page navigator.

A multi-institutional collaborative project funded by the Mellon Foundation to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. Contains collection of the earliest written texts (cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and alphabets) in digitized form, archaeological site reports, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world (ABZU), and a Web repository for translations of Akkadian materials (eTACT).

The Encyclopdia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. “Endangered” means material that is at risk of loss or decay, and is located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited. “Archives” refers to materials in written, pictorial or audio formats, including manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings. The Endangered Archives Programme primarily funds digitization projects to record and preserve the content of archives. Our projects create digital material in a format that facilitates long-term preservation, and at least two copies of these are stored: a primary copy that remains at an appropriate repository in the country of origin, and a secondary copy held at the British Library. The EAP website provides access to these digital collections for research, education, and enjoyment. Digital collections reflect archives from many African, Caribbean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, South American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian countries.

The main mission of the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies is to promote research, achieve a better understanding and provide crucial insights into the society, economy, politics, religion and culture of Iran and other Persian Gulf countries. The Ezri Center is also a center of advanced research on the relations between Israel and Iran, as well as on the Jewish communities of the Persian Gulf, in particular Iran. Blogs, e-books, lectures, conferences, the Ezri Center Newsletter, and the Persian Gulf Observer are freely available on the site.

Historical Photographs of the Land of Israel are collections of photographs from various sources that have been donated to the library's Digital Media Center in order to make them part of the library collections and to provide accessibility to these historical photographs for educational and research purposes or for private use. The project started as a cooperative venture with the department of Land of Israel Studies at Haifa University and the Bitmuna project. Library staff scans and catalogs the photographs. Identification of documented locations, people and events is done with the help of collection owners, information received from users, and others. Users can access the photograph collections according to theme, contributor, or geography, as well as the Digital Media Center's search options, where users can search freely for various materials. All the photographs in the Historical Photographs of the Land of Israel website are available to the public, under fair use and copyright limitations.

The Palestinian Poverty Atlas is a WMS map that uses unit record data from the Palestinian general Population and Housing Census of 2017 and PECS 2016. The PECS is a national household expenditure survey conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) that collects information on a range of topics including food and non-food expenditures, core data on socio-economic and health characteristics, dwelling conditions, and labor activities and incomes. It is used to calculate official poverty rates for the Palestinian Territories. The Palestinian Poverty Atlas includes a technical report and two interactive dashboards (with one or two indicators, e.g., population, poverty, index, unemployment rate, home employment, share of children out-of-school). The Atlas differentiates between regions, governorates, and localities, with depictions as maps or bar graphs. Interactive dashboards are used to make the poverty map more user-friendly and accessible. In addition to indicators of poverty and inequality, the dashboards also visualize many different indicators from Census 2017 (such as employment, access to services, etc). All indicators of poverty and inequality are visualized as standalone indicators, as well as with other indicators of living standards and welfare. The Jerusalem governorate has been excluded from the Poverty Atlas.

Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ) is a unified platform where all scholarly journals published by Iraqi universities and research institutions are indexed and discovered. All journals in IASJ are peer-reviewed and Open Access. The main aim of IASJ is to improve the online discoverability and visibility of and access to the published scholarly research of Iraqi academics. IASJ will help Iraqi authors to disseminate their research globally. IASJ currently includes 289 academic Open Access peer-reviewed journals from 65 institutions in Iraq.

The Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture is an organization for various activities related to Iranian Studies, Ancient Near East Studies and the Persianate world at the University of California, Irvine. Dedicated to drawing on the strengths of the entire UC Irvine campus, the Center focuses on interdisciplinary research projects that bridge the arts, humanities, engineering, medicine, and the sciences.

This website tells the story of Mohamed Ali Eltaher (also known by his traditional Arab nickname, Aboul-Hassan). It is also the story of his wife. It provides the sources and references needed for those who are interested to learn more about him, and, more importantly, to learn about the history of the Near East and North Africa between 1912 and 1974, and the political and historical issues of the countries spanning from Morocco to Iraq, and from Syria to Indonesia. Those who know Egypt through the writings of Lawrence Durrell and Konstantin Kavafi and other famous Western writers, will be able to have a glimpse of that side of Egypt these talented writers did not write about.

The complete historic archives and papers of Mohamed Ali Eltaher have been acquired by the Library of Congress. To consult the Collection on-site for research and academic purposes please contact Nawal Kawar ([email protected]).

This site hosts e-books from authors who are censored in Iran. The books are novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs that may cover topics such as art, history, society and politics. The site also contains podcasts and a blog.

Developed by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, QScience.com is a peer-reviewed online publishing platform. The main QScience.com is the online home for a growing range of peer-reviewed open access journals, e-books, and conference proceedings. Journal topics cover Medicine and Bioscience, Healthcare, Social Science, Islamic Studies, and Engineering. All abstracts are available in both English and Arabic and all content is accessible and fully searchable, 24/7, on the user's desktop or mobile device. QScience Proceedings is a forum for the dissemination of abstracts and full length papers given at meetings and conferences. The QScience COP18 collection consists of more than 140 articles drawn from the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference, covering the areas of ethics, corporate responsibility, food security, engineering, science, energy security, carbon capture and storage, sustainability, LNG, renewable energy, and business & management.

The Arabic Manuscript Manuscript System (AMMS) is a bi-lingual database that was originally developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). Subsequently, seven other West African collections have been entered, including the manuscript libraries at the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, Nouakchott Northwestern University the original hand-list of manuscripts at the IHERIAB (Centre Ahmad Baba) repository in Timbuktu the library of al-Hajj `Umar conserved at the Biblioth??que Nationale, Paris and a number of print catalogues from West Africa published by al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation. For more information on the activities and publications of the Foundation and these catalogues, click here. Additional collections are being added to further enhance the database as both a resource and an authority file for the identification of manuscripts.

The database is comprised of five interactive data sets: the manuscript records, their authors, the authors?? nisbas, subjects, and the collections themselves. It has a search engine designed to identify manuscripts and authors when only fragmentary information is available, in Arabic or Latin characters. Experimental linkage of digital images of manuscript texts to the records is currently underway.
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Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library (1475-1900) is the first full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books, it exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world.

Scholars can search on the full text of items in Arabic, English, French, German, Latin, Italian, Dutch and Spanish while also being able to discover content in Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Syriac and more. Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library supports comparative approaches to the study of the Middle East and the Muslim world and inspires original research on Islamic religion, history, language, literature, philosophy and science. The collection will become an essential resource for every major library in the Middle East and institutions world-wide needing primary source material in Arabic for research, teaching and learning.

Collection of news and financial information for over 100 emerging market countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America. Included are primary news sources (full-text), financial data (including reports on financial markets, companies and industries), over 1 million listed and private company profiles, statistics, macroeconomic forecasts and analysis, and legal and regulatory information. Arranged by country, ISI emerging markets also includes country profiles, exchange rates, and business and political news approximately 9,000 publications of data, research and news from unrivalled sources (from the Economist Intelligence Unit and ViewsWire, as well as other local and global sources).
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. Access is available to the 2nd (new) edition, the 3rd edition, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam Glossary and Index of Terms. Additionally, access is provided to the Historical Atlas of Islam, 1st and 2nd editions.

Foreign Office Files for the Middle East 1971-1981 is among the valuable collections sourced from the National Archives Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom. This collection is an essential resource for understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s. It addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution are examined in detail, as are the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia. Commercial interests are also scrutinised, with in-depth analyses of Middle East nations economic stability and reviews of international arm sales policies. The activities of oil producing nations such as Saudi Arabia are closely monitored, with particular reference to the Gulf States and members of OPEC.

Utilising this significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict. Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 is split into three modules:

• Module 1: Middle East, 1971-1974: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis
• Module 2: Middle East, 1975-1978: The Lebanese Civil War and the Camp David Accords
• Module 3: Middle East, 1979-1981: The Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War

GlobalCapital is a leading news, opinion and data service for people and institutions using and working in the international capital markets. It provides you with clearly-voiced, lively coverage of key markets based on the comments of those who work in them, together with a wealth of transaction data and archive material. Whether you wish to pick up the pulse of your market, to research in detail an issuer, intermediary or asset class in a particular sector, or to check out how your institution is performing relative to its peers, our service is for you.
GlobalCapital descends directly from EuroWeek (“the voice of the markets”), which has been covering new issues in primary markets for 26 years. Joining the platform are also several key capital markets publications from the Euromoney Institutional Investor Group: Asiamoney, Total Securitization and Derivatives Week. GlobalCapital also sees the introduction of a brand new service on the internationalisation of the RMB.

The combination of these elements on state-of-the-art new web technology provides a device-neutral, flexible global news and data service where relevant related articles and data are a click away.

This resource contains detailed information on Islamic finance markets and securities providing top news, company information, financial markets data, research reports, legal and current affairs, deal details and league tables. It includes a news archive and the Sukuk database which is a fully searchable database, focusing on the international deals in the Islamic market. The site also covers the Islamic financial market and the Shariah-compliant financial industry. It provides daily email alerts to keep users up-to-date with transactions and market developments.

Rare Printed Books from The Valmadonna Trust Library, London. The Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic books from Baghdad comprise an unparalleled resource for the study of oriental printing, Hebrew liturgical history, Judeo-Arabic literature, and the history and culture of the most ancient Jewish diaspora community. With this publication IDC Publishers makes this important collection generally available to modern research.

Rare Printed Books from The Valmadonna Trust Library, London. The Valmadonna Collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India is a unique and unparalleled resource for the study of oriental printing and lithography, Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. IDC Publishers will make the entire corpus of Indian Jewish literature accessible to researchers for the first time.

Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere (including the Arabs in Spain). Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Subject coverage includes: Accounting Archaeology Arts Bibliography & Scholarship Economics Education Middle East Geography & History Islam Law Literature Natural & Applied Sciences Philosophy Politics Religion Social Sciences Theology Travel and Zoology. Updated annually.

Index to Jewish Periodicals provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more.

Original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major policy statements and other working documents are set out in context, the minor documents and marginalia reveal the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Includes photographs and color maps, as well as contemporary film.

A compendium of early works of an astounding variety of disciplines from important Arab writers, spanning fields from feminism and social theory, to classics of literature, history, and the sciences. Includes works by the Four Imams of the Sunni Sect, the Al Azhar Modern Sheikhs, various authors of the Modern Arab Enlightenment, and rare works by the former Egyptian royal family.

Kotobarabia E-Library covers over 1,400 established authors, NGOs, publishing houses and magazines. By establishing and maintaining business development channels with Arab publishing institutions, Kotobarabia regularly continues to add more contemporary content. Over 4,500 titles and growing of all types of publications: banned literature, fiction, non-fiction, scholarly and popular, written by Arab authors Leading authors from Egypt, increasing content from other countries Over 80% of the titles are unavailable or very hard to acquire even in print form. Content is mostly in Arabic, with metadata in both Arabic and English and bilingual English/Arabic search interface, including a virtual Arabic keyboard for easy text input.

The Modern Arab Renaissance Collection is made up of an exclusive electronic archive of books published from 1820-1914 from across the Islamic world, with special focus on Egypt and Syria. With over 2,500 titles, this collection covers humanistic, intellectual and scientific fields. Subject categories include philosophy and theology, literature, arts, history and politics, including writings from Mahmoud Abdo, Gamal El Din El Afgahany and Rashid Reda. Content is mostly in Arabic, with metadata in both Arabic and English and a bilingual English/Arabic search interface, including a virtual Arabic keyboard for easy text input.

The Lithographed Editions of Firdawsis Shahnamah is a collection of extremely rare and illustrated lithographed editions of the famous Persian epic The Book of Kings by Persian author Firdawsi. The Shahnamah was completed at the beginning of the eleventh century C.E. and it is both a monument of classical Persian literature and of Iranian national identity. Scholarly research on the work has mainly focused on the establishment of a faithful and reliable text. However, there are numerous 'Oriental' editions that have received little attention. It has never been thoroughly studied how many of these different editions exist or what the exact nature of the known editions is.

The lithographed Shahnamah editions have distinct characteristics that are particularly relevant to the the study of the growing appreciation of the work in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. First of all, each copy of an edition is potentially unique due to the specific circumstances of lithographic printing. Secondly, various editions might have different wording and might thus offer additional clues to the establishment of the text itself. Thirdly, all Shahnamah's lithographed editions contain illustrations adding to their popular appeal.

The present collection offers the complete text of thirteen lithographed editions of the Shahnamah. It includes the Indian Bombay editions of 1262/1846 and 1266/1849, as well as the first Iranian edition Tehran 1265-67/1851-53 and all four of the ensuing editions published in Iran and also a selection of eight Indian editions published in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Beyond their importance as historically produced texts, some editions are noteworthy for their calligraphy, such as the 1277/1855 Bombay edition prepared by Awliya' Sami', or the 1307/1889 Tehran edition prepared by Muhammad-Rida Safa Sultan al-kuttab . Particularly the illustrations in the Iranian editions are quite appealing and have been produced by major artists of the day such as Mirza 'Ali-Qoli Khu'i (

The Middle East and Africa Database is a bibliographic and fulltext database that provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America. The database is designed to provide easy bibliographic and fulltext access to journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, press releases, books, manuals, magazines, and ephemera.

MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Over 12,000 records of recently published & grey literature are added annually. Coverage includes the following fields: political affairs & law international relations economic affairs cultural heritage arts & humanities society & social welfare ethnic diversity & anthropology significant religious events & movements recent history (1900 - present) & archaeology. Hundreds of links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are included.

Comprehensive online legal database maintained by Nevo Press Ltd. which has exclusive distribution rights to publish the official text of Israeli court decisions. In addition to officially published court decisions, the database includes decisions not published officially, summaries and history of cases from first instance to appeal posted within one hour after delivered, full text of books (published by Nevo Press Ltd.) and law periodicals. Also includes a daily legal news brief summarizing newly passed bills and significant Israeli court decisions.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more. Bibliographies are currently available in the following areas:

• American Literature
• Anthropology
• Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
• Atlantic History
• Biblical Studies
• British and Irish Literature
• Buddhism
• Classics
• Islamic Studies
• Jewish Studies<
• Medieval Studies
• Music
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Urban Studies
• Victorian Literature

RAIOH aims to provide an independent and continuous online oral history programme through comprehensive (average of 10 hours per narrator) video oral history interviews and by considering witnesses of their time from a variety of social and ethnic groups including those who played an important role in student, women and peasant movements as well as opposition groups and military activists. In addition to the complete interviews, main subject themes relating to specific historical events concerning the last century as well as aspects revolving around the political, organisational, social and cultural life in Iran have been extracted from the narrators' life-stories. The compilation of a subject index enables scholars to research the field of their interest by comparing and contrasting differing perceptions of the narrators on a particular subject.

To date 1100 hours of interview material has been uploaded in conjunction with (internal) bulletins, journals, pamphlets, original correspondences (mainly handwritten copies), and other historical documents related to the oral history accounts. These documents, which have been collected during oral history field work in the last 30 years cover the period from 1870 to the present.
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Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half-dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community's spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran's nuclear program.

Topics covered include U.S. recognition of Israel and the 1948 Middle East war, overthrowing Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran (1953), 1956 Middle East war, 1967 Middle East war, Israel and the atomic bomb, Muammar Qadhafi's 1969 coup in Libya, 1973 Middle East war, 1973-1974 OPEC oil embargo, the fall of the shah of Iran and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini (1978-1979), Iran-Iraq war (September 1980-August 1988), Lebanon (1982-1984), the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990), the Iraqi WMD intelligence assessments (2002-2003), the abortive Syrian nuclear program (2006-2007), the Iranian nuclear program (1970s-present), the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the U.S.-Israeli intelligence relationship, and spying on Israel.