Middle East Studies Resources

Booksellers

The American University in Cairo Press.
E.J. Brill
Kegan Paul (Middle East list)
TELA/Scholar's Press

Departments, Centers, and Institutes

American University of Cairo.
Arab Gulf Studies Centre at the University of Exeter.
Center for Middle East Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Centre for Non-Western Studies at Leiden University.
Columbia University Middle East Institute.
Columbia University: Middle East Area Studies
University of Connecticut Ancient Near East Archaeology
Dartmouth College Arabic Program
University of Denver Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies
Department of History: Sudanese and Sufi studies at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (Arabic) of the University of Bergen (Norway).
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of Amsterdam in Dutch.
University of Durham Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). The Arab Studies Journal, the graduate student edited journal of CCAS, is also available.
Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near East Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Harvard Middle East Studies Program.
Institute of Middle East Studies at St. Andrews University (Scotland).
Institutt for Xsteuropeiske og Orientalske Studier at the University of Oslo (Norway).
Directory of Middle East scholars.
Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at the University of Tel Aviv includes links to other Israeli sites.
McGill University: Program for Middle East Studies
Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies of the International Center.
Middle East Information from the University of Oslo.
Middle East Network Information Center of the Middle East Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A system that lists a great deal of information on the Middle East including links to other gophers, on-line databases, and other items including this guide. It is maintained by Elizabeth N. Bouri.
Netherlands Institute for the Near East at Leiden University.
Oriental Department at Leiden University.
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute Virtual Museum provides pictures, movies and other resources from the collection.
University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center
The Qumran Seminar (Sweden).
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of Toronto Middle East Studies Center.
University of Toronto Middle East Internet Resources.
University of Uppsala: Department of Asian and African Languages. Mostly in Swedish.
University of Washington: Middle East Studies Center
Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van het Islamitische Midden-Oosten (TCIMO)

General

ABZU. The Guide to Resources for the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the internet. It is maintained by Charles E. Jones.
Economic Cooperation and Integration in the Middle East: A Literature Survey. A project of the University of Toronto Centre for International Studies, the University of Jordan, the Palestine Society for the Study of International Affairs, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey.
Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. A periodic, academic journal of Middle East studies publishes scholarly writing in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities as well as interdisciplinary work related to the Middle East. EJMES is a non-partisan publication and does not support or discriminate against any ideological, political, or religious viewpoint. The EJMES editorial board makes publication decisions based on the academic merit, and quality of writing of individual submissions.
Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. This service is based at the University of California at San Diego.
True-Blue Middle East Resource Guide.
The Virtual Media Lab of the University of Pennsylvania providing information on the Salt Temples of Pakistan, The Step Pyramid Complex in Djoser, Egypt, and Judaica.

Libraries

University of Haifa Library (Israel).
The Maps of the Middle East Collection of the Perry-Castanda Library of the University of Texas at Austin.
The Middle East Documentation Center of the University of Chicago. An archive of over 1400 titles ranging from popular press to historical documents in the Catalogue of Microforms Projects in Ottoman, Persian, and Arabic is available with more being added regularly.
The Middle East Documentation Unit (MEDUSA) of the University of Durham is now available on-line. This is a collection of almost a quarter of a million official government reports, statistical publications, development plans, and special reports of international and domestic agencies and political parties, etc.
Near East Division of the University of Michigan Graduate Library.
Oriental Department of the University of Leiden Library.
Sudan Documentation Centre of the University of Durham.

Societies

Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies (Montreal) List. ICASNET is a list for Canadian Scholars of the Middle East. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to subsscribe by sending a biography to the list maintainer Rex Brynen.
Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies (Montreal) List. IUCAS is a forum created by the Consortium for Canadian researchers. Send subscription request including a brief biography to the listowner and moderator, Rex Brynen, at McGill University. The forum is designed to facilitate scholarly communication of the Arab world and to publicize visiting speakers, Canadian Conferences, and publications.
Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies (Montreal). Includes information on current projects, recent publications, Middle East links, and the Canadian Committee of the Middle East Studies Association.
Middle East Studies Association Gopher includes the Tables of Contents and notes on 'research resources' beginning with the December 1992 (Vol. 26, No. 2) issue. It is located at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Please direct questions to Jon Anderson.
Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

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