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Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Music with a Conscience

الضمير العربي
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Labels: Arabs, culture, politics

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This is a portal for Middle East, Central Asia and Islamic materials. The articles posted here are articles I find interesting and are collected from Open Access sites, journals, and newspapers. To view the original source of the article, click on the title. Created, Uploaded and Updated by Sean Swanick.
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Search using Springshare LibGuides

  • Libguides

Arabic resources

  • American Association of Teachers of Arabic
  • Arabic at U Pennsylvania
  • Arabic Gems (جواهر العربية)
  • Arabic Grammar (PDF)
  • Arabic Music and Song Translations
  • Arabic Reading & Writing Course
  • Arabic Verb Conjugator
  • IFPOrient
  • Learn Egyptian Arabic
  • PERSIAN in Texas!!!
  • Sakhr--Arabic/English Dictionary
  • Shawshara--Arabic Music
  • Study Arabic
  • The Arabic Student
  • Yamli (Arabic-English Transliteration)

Books

  • Book Finder
  • Brill
  • CA&CC Press (Central Asian materials)
  • Eisenbrauns (Ancient Near East & Biblical Studies)
  • Eren Books (Turkey)
  • Gerlach Books (Germany)
  • Greenwood Publishing (ME catalogue)
  • Gutenberg Books
  • Harrasowitz
  • Humanities E-Book (Middle East e-books)
  • Institute for Palestine Studies
  • Iran Farhang-Persian books
  • Isis Press (Turkey)
  • Joppa Books
  • Kalima
  • Ketabook--Books from and about the Maghreb
  • Khizana (Arabic books)
  • Kotobarabia (Arabic E-books)
  • Laboratorio Religione e Sfera Publica
  • Leila Books (Cairo)
  • Libra books (Turkey)
  • Lynner Rienner (Germany)
  • M. Bin Rashid Foundation
  • Mazda Publisher (Persian literature)
  • Middle East Basic Reading List
  • Middle East Bookstore (Canada)
  • Neel wa Furat (Egypt)
  • Shah Muhammad Books (Afghanistan)
  • Sulaiman's Bookshop (Beirut)
  • Tughra Books (Islamic books)
  • YBP

Libraries of Interest

  • American University of Beirut (AUB)
  • American University of Cairo (AUC)
  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  • Boston University (Research Guide)
  • Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (U Michigan)
  • Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies--Cambridge
  • Columbia--Middle East
  • Cornell U. Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection
  • Cornell University (Research Guide)
  • Harvard--Middle East
  • King Abdul Aziz Library (Arabic Union Catalogue Project)
  • Library of Congress
  • McGill-Islamic Studies Library
  • NYU-Bobst Library Sources
  • Oxford University-Centre for Islamic Studies
  • Pars Times-Middle East Resources
  • Princeton-Near East Collection
  • U of Arizona Near East Dep't
  • U of Durham: Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
  • U of Edinburgh Islamic and Middle Eastern Library Resources
  • U of Exeter: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
  • U of Texas Middle East Resources
  • U of Washington-Near East
  • UCLA-Centre for Near Eastern Studies
  • University of Berkeley (Film collection)
  • Yale Near East
  • Yale-Arabic Middle East Electronic Library (AMEEL)
  • Yale-Avalon Project
  • Yale-Online Access to Consolidated Informaion on Serials (OACIS)

Associations of interest

  • Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
  • Center for Research Libraries
  • International Federation Library Association (IFLA)
  • Lebanese Library Association (LLA)
  • Middle East Librarians Association
  • Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCOM)
  • Middle East Studies Association
  • The Islamic Manuscripts Association

The Arabic Book

  • 29 Letters--Arabic Type; Typography
  • Arabic Type and Typography
  • Exhibition of the Arabic Book (French)
  • Hakawati (Storyteller)
  • Islamic Manuscripts
  • Islamic Manuscripts-Reading List

Newspapers, Opinions of Interest

  • al Ahram (Arabic)
  • al Ahram (English)
  • al Hayat (English)
  • al Jazeera (Arabic)
  • al Jazeera (English)
  • al Mashriq (Levantine News Sources)
  • AME Info (Bus. sources from the UAE)
  • Arab News from Canada (Arabic)
  • Arab Reform Initiative
  • Arab Thought Forum
  • Arts & Letters Daily
  • Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  • Current History
  • Daily Star (Lebanon)
  • Embassy (Canada's Foreign Affairs Newspaper)
  • Haaretz (Israel)
  • History Commons
  • History News Network (HNN)
  • Hurriyet (Turkish)
  • Institute for War & Peace
  • Inter Press Service
  • Iranian--Nothing is Sacred
  • Magharebia-news from North Africa (Arabic, French, English)
  • Middle East Strategy (Harvard)
  • Middle East Times
  • One Stop Iran News
  • Oxford Analytica
  • Persian Mirror
  • Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
  • Robert Fisk
  • The Middle East
  • The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
  • The National (Abu Dhabi)
  • Turkish Weekly

Cultural Sites of Interest

  • al Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies
  • al Bab
  • Al Jadid-A review & record of Arab culture and arts
  • Arab Media & Society
  • Arab News from Canada (Arabic)
  • Banipal--Magazine of Modern Arabic literature
  • Canada Council on Arab Relations
  • Carnegie Endowment for Peace: Middle East
  • Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research (CAMRO)
  • Centre for Arab-British Understanding
  • Damascus Online--Everything Syrian!
  • Doha Debates--Forum for Free Speech in the Arab World
  • Historiae--Iraq (Southern Iraq)
  • ibn Khaldun Center for development studies
  • International Museum of Muslim Cultures
  • International Society for Iranian Studies
  • Iraq History Project (IQHP)
  • Jihad Unspun
  • Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Edinburgh)
  • Kefiya (Enough!)
  • Marefa--Cultural project collecting in Arabic
  • MEB (Middle East Broadcasting Journal)
  • MENASSAT: Arab/Middle East Media
  • Middle East Institute
  • Middle East Report Online
  • Middle East Virtual Library
  • Muslim Heritage
  • Qantara--Dialogue with the Islamic World
  • Quilliam Foundation--Counter Extremism Think Tank
  • RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers)
  • Reset Doc-Dialogues on Civilizations
  • Saudi Aramco
  • Words Without Borders

Silk Road & Central Asia

  • Afghan culture & history
  • Caucasian Review of International Affairs
  • Center for Afghan Studies--U of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at U Texas at Austin
  • Central Asia-Caucasus Institute: Silk Road Studies Program (Johns Hopkins University)
  • Central EurAsian Studies Society
  • Central Eurasian Studies World Wide: Resources (Harvard University)
  • Danish Society for Central Asia
  • Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University)
  • Discovery Bookshop--Arts & Crafts of Central Asia
  • Far Eastern Economic Review
  • Forum 18 (Oslo)
  • Images of Kyrgyzstan
  • Institute for Afghan Studies
  • Kyrgyzstan--Neweurasia
  • New Eurasian News
  • Pajhwok Afghan News
  • Registan--Central Asian News
  • Steppe Magazine
  • The Golden Road to Samarqand (Blog)
  • The legacy of Genghis Khan (Art exhibition)
  • The Silk Road Foundation
  • The Times of Central Asia
  • Transoxiana--Journal of Central Asia
  • Turkic Studies
  • Turkish Daily News
  • Turkish Weekly
  • UZ Report (Uzbekistan Business)

Noteworthy Blogs

  • Age of Jahiliyah
  • Al Sharq (in German)
  • Caliphates of Baghdad
  • Conflicts Forum
  • Digital Librarian--Middle East websites
  • Foreign Policy Blog: Marc Lynch
  • Forward Magazine Blog (Syria)
  • Helena Cobban
  • Informed Comment (Dr Juan Cole)
  • Islam in Europe Blog
  • Kamil Pasha (Jenny White)
  • Khazen & Comp. Blog about the Middle East and the West
  • LIS in India
  • Music of the Middle East
  • Muslimah Media Watch
  • Qifa Nabki (Lebanon)
  • Raed in the ME
  • Syria Comment
  • The Arabist

Islam with a focus on Sufism

  • Abu Muhammad al Ghazali
  • Compendium of Muslim Texts: Sunnah and Hadith
  • Darvish
  • Fethullah Gulen
  • ibn Arabi Society
  • Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
  • Islam in China
  • Journal of Comparative Religion
  • Mevlana Rumi
  • Nimatullahi Order
  • Said Nursi--Risale-i Nur (Commentary on the Qur'an)
  • Sufi Articles & Books (Nimatullahi)
  • Sufi Book Store (Powered by Amazon)
  • Sufi Live--Naqshbandi Order
  • Sufi News from the World
  • Sufi Order International
  • Sufis and Sufism--an Introduction (U of Georgia)
  • Sufispot (Shaykh Nazim-Naqshabandi Order)
  • The Ikhwan (Islamic Brotherhood) Web
  • Wild Dervish Writes

Digital Collections of Interest

  • Abdulhamid Collection of Photographs-LoC
  • Afghanistan Digital Library--NYU
  • AUB-Arabic Manuscripts
  • AUB-Political Posters
  • Calligraphy-LoC
  • Digital Collection (Britain)
  • Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Cultures
  • Islamic Manuscripts from Mali-LoC
  • Islamic Manuscripts Project--Leipzig University
  • Khtt Network for Arabic Typography
  • Middle East Images
  • Middle East Medieval Collection
  • Pattern in Islamic Art
  • Persian Gulf Online
  • Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)-Rice Uni.
  • U of Washington Silk Road Project
  • World Digital Library
  • World Library

Index

  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Arabia
  • Arabs
  • Armenia
  • arts
  • Azerbaijan
  • blogging
  • book review
  • camels
  • Canada
  • cartoons
  • Central Asia
  • China
  • civil society
  • culture
  • diaspora
  • digital
  • Dubai
  • economics
  • Egypt
  • Europe
  • exhibition
  • facebook
  • Festival
  • history
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Islam
  • Jordan
  • journalism
  • Kazakhstan
  • Khalij
  • Kurdistan
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • language
  • Lebanon
  • library
  • Libya
  • Maghreb
  • Mediteranean
  • Middle East
  • Morrocco
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
  • politics
  • Qatar
  • Quran
  • religion
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Science
  • Silk Road
  • Spain
  • Sudan
  • Sufism
  • Syria
  • Tadjikistan
  • travel
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • UAE
  • Uzbekistan
  • women
  • Yemen
 

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