MIDDLE EAST CENTRAL ASIA   LINKS   This webpage contains a variety of links about the Middle East and Central Asia. It is by no means exhaustive, nor is it a specific endorsement of any of the sites. You can use this page to find out information on a variety of topics and to search for specific kinds of webpages about the region.     Daniel Martin Varisco Director, MECA Program at Hofstra     Suggestions of links are welcomed.   Last update 10/23/02

INDEX

• General Information • Links • Middle East Centers • Institutes and Research Centers •Online Newspapers, News Sources and Magazines • Photos and Images • Book Sellers and Publishers

Send an e-card or Islamic Holiday Greeting     Convert an Islamic Calendar Date     Middle Eastern Food and Recipes

 

• General Information

Albawaba http://www.albawaba.com/

[General "Yahoo"-like site, also called "The Middle East Gateway"]

 

Arab Net http://www.arab.net/

[Provides information by country.]

 

CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

[Up to date information from the U.S. government.]

 

Encyclopedia of the Orient http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm

 

Al-Mashriq: The Levant http://almashriq.hiof.no/

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Links Sites

 

Indigenous Resources for Asia & the Middle East http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html#asia

 

Islam Links http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/islamlink.html

 

Islamic Nations and their Neighbors on the Information Superhighway http://vassiliansdepot.com/iranweb.html

 

Islamic Studies Pathways http://www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways/

 

MERIA Links Page http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/links.html#list2a

 

MES Links http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/meslink.htm

[Anthropology links from the MiddleEast Section of the American Anthropological Association]

 

Middle East Network Information Center http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html

 

The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html

 

Middle East Sites on the Internet (University of Bergen) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Midtspraak/links.htm

 

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Middle East http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/index.html

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Middle East Centers

For a list of Research centers and university departments dealing with the Middle East, see The Middle East on the Internet http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/links.html

 

Bergen (University of) Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/smi.html

 

Directory of Middle East Scholars gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:71/11/clioplus/scholarly/MidEast/Scholars

 

Georgetown University Center for Contmporary Arab Studies http://www.ccasonline.org/

 

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast

 

Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Study http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/

 

Middle East Network Information Center http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html

 

University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies http://www.cmes.uchicago.edu/

 

University of Ghent Middle East Studies Center http://ctws.rug.ac.be/MESC/

 

University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/mec/home.html

 

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Institutes and Research Centers

 

The American Association of Teachers of Arabic http://www.wm.edu/aata/

 

American Institute for Maghreb Studies http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/index.html

 

American Institute for Yemeni Studies http://www.aiys.org

 

The American Research Center in Egypt http://www.arce.org

 

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aram/index.html

 

Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) http://www.amews.org/

 

European Association for Middle East Studies http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/eurames/

 

Institute for Palestine Studies http://www.ipsjps.org/

 

The Middle East Institute http://www.themiddleeastinstitute.org/

 

Middle "East Librarians Group (MELCOM) http://www.ex.ac.uk/MELCOM/

 

Middle East Studies Association http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/index.html

 

Middle East Medievalists http://www.MiddleEastMedievalists.org/

 

Netherlands Institute for the Near East http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/nino.html

 

Oman Studies Centre http://www.oman.org/

 

Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/nsm/nsmhome.html

 

SOTA (Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan) http://www.turkiye.net/sota/sota.html

 

The Turkish Studies Association http://bsuvc.bsu.edu/~tsa/index.html

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Advocacy Organizations

 

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee http://www.adc.org/

 

American Iranian Council http://www.American-Iranian.Org/

 

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) http://www.aipac.org/

 

American Kurdish Information Network http://www.kurdistan.org/

 

AMIDEAST http://www.amideast.org/

 

Arab American Institute http://www.aaiusa.org/

 

Arab American University Graduates http://www.aaug.org/

 

The Arab Organization for Human Rights http://leb.net/ao

 

Arabian Wildlife On Line http://www.arabianwildlife.com/

 

Gay and Lesbian Arab Society http://leb.net/glas/

 

Ornithological Society of the Middle East http://www.osme.org/index.html

  

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Online Newspapers, News Sources and Magazines

 

al-Ayyam http://www.Al-Ayyam.com/

[Egyptian, with English section]

 

al-Hayat http://www.alhayat.com/

[Based in London]

 

Al Jadid -- A Record of Arab Culture and Arts http://www.aljadid.com/

[Essays and features on Arab arts and music]

 

Arab Ambassador http://www.arabambassador.com/

 

Arabian Wildlife On Line http://www.arabianwildlife.com/

[Articles and resources about wildlife on the Arabian Peninsula]

 

Arabic News.Com http://www.arabicnews.com/

 

Arabic On-Line Publications (list) http://www.arabic2000.com/index/online.html

 

BBC Arabic Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/

 

Beirut Times http://www.beiruttimes.com/

 

Gulf Times http://www.gulf-times.com/

 

Haaretz http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

 

International Journal of Middle East Studies http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cmenas/ijmes/ijmes.htm

 

International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy Newsletter http://hsc.tamu.edu/humanity/newsletter/index.html

 

The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.co.il/

 

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm

 

Journal of Palestine Studies http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/

 

MERIP http://www.merip.org/

 

Middle East Journal http://www.mideasti.org/html/journal.html

 

Middle East Review of International Affairs http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/

 

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/welcome.htm

 

Middle East Studies Association Newsletter http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/onlinenews.htm

 

Middle East Times http://www.METIMES.com/

 

The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/intro.htm

 

Morocco Today http://www.morocco-today.com/

 

The News Channel by Arabia.On.Line http://www.akhbar.com/

 

Sudanic Africa http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/sa/sahome.html

 

Syria Times http://www.teshreen.com/

 

Transnational Broadcasting Studies (AUC) http://www.tbsjournal.com/

 

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs http://www.wrmea.com/

 

Yemen Update http://www.aiys.org/webdate/update.html

[Online Bulletin of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies]

 

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Photos and Images

 

Earthrise [Satellite Photos of Middle East] http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/earthrise/political/me/

Images of Afghanistan (R. Ellis) http://www.pressroom.com/~rellis/afghan.html

Images of Marrakesh (1995 Marrakesh Folk Festival) http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/~jr/gallery/

Middle East Photo Archive http://www.lib.uchicago.edu:80/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/PhotoArchive.html

Fondation Arabe pour l'Image http://www.fai.org.lb/

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Book Sellers and Publishers

 

Arab World and Islamic Resources http://www.dnai.com/~gui/awairproductinfo.html

 

The Arabic Library on the Web http://www.arabiclibrary.com/

 

Boustany's Publishing House http://www.boustanys.com/

 

Interlink Publishing http://www.interlinkbooks.com

 

Joppa Books Lmt. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/joppa/

 

Leila Books (Cairo) http://www.leila-books.com/

 

Maktaba al-Nil wa al-Furat http://www.neelwafurat.com/

 

The On-Line Islamic Bookstore http://www.sharaaz.com/

 

Publishers and Bookstore on Middle East Studies http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/Pubs.html

 

Worldwide List of Islamic Book-sellers http://www.msa-natl.org/resources/Bookstores.html

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E-cards

Arabia.com http://www.arabia.com/cards/english/

 

Al-Bawaba Cyprus [cards of scenes from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia]

http://www.albawaba.com/ecards/index.php3?lang=e

 

Photographic Gallery of MOHAMED MANNAI [Send an Arabic greeting card]

http://www.mmannai.com/english/index.htm  

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Islamic Calendar Converters

 

Conversion of Islamic and Christian Dates http://www.ori.unizh.ch/hegira.html

 

Gregorian-Hijri Dates Converter http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~tawfig/convert/

 

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Middle Eastern Food and Recipes

ABC of Arabic Cuisine http://www.arab.net/cuisine/welcome.html

 

The Egyptian Recipes Page http://touregypt.net/recipes/

 

Food (albab) http://www.al-bab.com/arab/food.htm

 

Food from the Arab World http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600/640/641/khayat/title.html

 

An Islamic Dinner http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/islamic_dinner.html

 

The Middle East Cookbook http://members.home.net/stoma/ Vision Quest

 

Middle Eastern Links http://www.goodcooking.com/mideast.htm

 

Middle Eastern Restaurants in USA http://www.muslim-yellowpages.com/Mid_East_rest.html

 

Recipes (Arabic News) http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Recipes/RecipesDB.html

 

Turkish Cuisine http://www.dominet.com.tr/turkey/recipes.html