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  COUNTRIES

  

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INDEX

 

Afghanistan Algeria Berbers Egypt Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kurds Kuwait Lebanon Libya

Morocco Oman Palestine/Palestinians Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syria Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen

Afghanistan

 

Afghanistan 1976-78 [Douglas R. Powell] http://WWWGeoImages.Berkeley.EDU/GeoImages/Powell/powellafghan.html

 

Afghanistan Online http://www.afghan-web.com/

 

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

 

Interactive Central Asia Resource Project http://www.icarp.org/

 

RAWA: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org/

 

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Algeria

 

Algeriainfo.com http://www.algeriainfo.com/index.htm

 

Algerian Darja-English Dictionary http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3279/

 

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Berbers

Amazigh Online http://www.amazighonline.com/Tamazgha/default.htm

 

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Egypt

"Abdul Wahab on Family and Gender: The Challenges of Modernity in Egypt" (Rugh) [AN January 99]

 

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

 

"An Anthropologist Makes Photographs of Fin-de-Siecle Cairo" [Cynthia Myntti] AN April, 1999

"Anthropology in Egypt" (Hopkins) [AN January 98]

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

AL WAFD PARTY http://www.alwafd.com/ 

"Confounding experts, an ancient culture thrives in Egypt" (CNN) http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/08/egypt.nubia/index.html

Egypt: A Country Study (Library of Congress)http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/egtoc.html

 

Egypt: State Information Service http://www.sis.gov.eg/

 

Links to Egypt Sites http://www.arabambassador.com/linkstoegyptsites.htm

 

Nicole's Egypt Page [Links] http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~i9248809/egypt.html

 

"REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK AMONG THE SINAI BEDOUIN WOMEN" (Ann Gardner) http://www.sherryart.com/women/bedouin.html

  

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Iran

 

"An Anthropologist's View of the Komachi View of the Anthropologist" (Bradburd) [AN November 99]

 

Ankaboot [search engine on Iran] http://www.ankaboot.com/

 

Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA) http://www.dac.neu.edu/cira/

 

Iranian Cultural Information Center http://tehran.stanford.edu/

 

Isfahan Homepage http://www.anglia.ac.uk/~trochford/isfahan.html

 

Revolution: 1979-1999 http://www.iranian.com/revolution.html

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Iraq

Assyria On Line http://aina.org/aol/

 

Iraq National Congress http://www.inc.org.uk/

 

Iraq Net http://www.iraq.net/

 

iraqipages.com http://www.iraqipages.com/

 

Pictures from Iraq http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/arab/multimedia/iraq-pictures.html

 

The Supreme Council for Islamic Revoluion in Iraq http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sciri/

 

URUQ Link (official Iraqi site) http://www.uruklink.net/

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Israel

"Anthropology in Israel" (Ben-Ari) [AN January 97]

 

iGuide (Guide to Israeli Internet) http://www.iguide.co.il/

 

Israel Ministry of Information http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/

 

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

 

Kotel Kam [Live cam on Jerusalem] http://virtual.co.il/city_services/kotel/kam/index.htm

 

Maven: Thousands of Jewish.Israel Links http://www.maven.co.il/

 

National Photo Collection of Israel http://194.90.92.50/topsrch/defaulte.htm

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Jordan

 

H. M. Queen Noor of Jordan Web Site http://www.go.com.jo/QNoorjo/index.html

 

Indigenous hardiness structures and state formation in Jordan: Towards a history of Jordan's resident Arab population [Øystein S. LaBianca] http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/paj/pajtoc.html

 

Official Website of King Hussein http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/

 

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Kurds

akaKurdistan http://www.akakurdistan.com/

 

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

 

Kurdish Democratic Party http://www.kdp.pp.se/

 

Kurdish Information Network http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/index.html

 

Kurdish Language and Linguistics http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/kurd_lal.html

 

Kurdish Library and Documentation Center http://www.kurdishlibrary.org/

 

The Kurdish Tribune http://home.nordnet.fr/~sdara/

 

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan http://www.puk.org/

 

Washington Kurdish Institute http://www.kurd.org/

 

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Kuwait

 

Kuwait University http://www.kuniv.edu.kw/

 

Pictures from Kuwait http://ecealpha.ece.eng.kuniv.edu.kw:8080/kw-gallery.html

 

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Lebanon

"A Glimpse of Yesterday: A Typology of Regional Variation and Cultural Continuity in Lebanese Place-Names " (E. Wardini) http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/400/410/412/elies_project/glimse_of_yesterday.html

 

CLS Lebanon Related Internet Resources http://nonuniv.ox.ac.uk/cls/links.htm

 

Lebanon http://almashriq.hiof.no/base/lebanon.html

 

Leabanon.com News Wire http://www.lebanon.com/news/newswire/index.htm

 

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Libya

History of the Jewish Community in Libya http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibyanJews/LibyanJews/thejews.html

 

Libya: Our Home http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/

 

Libya Resources on the Internet http://Geocities.com/LibyaPage/

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Morocco

 

Images of Daily Life in Morocco (James Miller) http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/Miller/millerone.html

 

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

 

A Moroccan Henna or "Berberiska" http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1717/Culture.html

 

Threads of Time: Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez, Morocco (L. W. Mackie) [video] http://romlx6.rom.on.ca/pub/fez/

Juland's Omani Oasis http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/2692/

 

Nizwa Net http://www.nizwa.net/

 

Oman (Arabic Daily) http://www.omandaily.com/

 

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

 

Omannet http://www.omanet.com/

 

Sultan Qaboos University http://www.mistral.co.uk/squ/

Palestine

Birzeit University Homepage http://www.birzeit.edu/

 

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

 

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre http://www.sakakini.org/

 

"Nationalising the Sacred: Shrines and Shifting Identities in the Israeli-Occupied Territories". (G. Bowman) http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/glenn/Man.html

Palestine-net http://palestine-net.com/

 

Palestinian Folklore (Barghouti) http://www.barghouti.com/folklore/

 

Palestine Information Center http://www.palestine-info.org/

 

Palestinian Popular Proverbs http://www.barghouti.com/folklore/proverbs/ 

 

"'A Country of Words': Conceiving the Palestinian Nation from the Position of Exile (G. Bowman) http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/glenn/Laclau.html

 

A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (N. Parry) http://nigelparry.com/diary/

 

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Qatar

 

Qatar Info http://www.qatar-info.com/index.htm

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Saudi Arabia

 

Saudi Arabia... Culture (arabnet) http://www.arab.net/saudi/saudi_contents.html

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Sudan

Turabi Home Page (Dr. Hasan al-Turabi) http://www.turabi.com/

 

The Sudan Foundation http://www.sufo.demon.co.uk/

 

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

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Syria

Syria: A Photographic Journey http://www.manhal.com/

 

Syria Net http://www.sscnet.UCLA.edu/syrianet.htm

 

Syria Online http://www.mysite.com/syria/syria.htm

 

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Tunisia

Radio Tunis

http://www.radiotunis.com/

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Turkey

The American Research Institute in Turkey (Library) http://arit.dartmouth.edu/arit/

 

"Anthropology in Turkey" (Bartu) [AN December 96]

 

ATATÜRK AND HIS REFORMS http://www.mfa.gov.tr/GRUPA/a5.htm

 

Freedom under Wraps (U. Reinart) http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/j2no3a5.html

 

Istanbul Boy (Aziz Nesin) http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/cmes/pub/iboy/iboy.html

 

Paul Sterling's Ethnographic Data Archives http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/notes.html

 

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

 

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

 

Turkish Village (P. Sterling) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/StirlingContents.html

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United Arab Emirates

Emirates Infosite http://www.georgetown.edu/users/featherc/offramp/offramp.html

 

The Land and Its People http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/Land/introduction.html

 

UAE Interact http://www.uaeinteract.com/homefrm.html

 

UAE Newsgroup http://www.uaenewsgroup.com/home.htm

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Yemen

 

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

 

Centre Français d'Etudes Yéménites http://www.univ-aix.fr/cfey/

 

A Farewell to Khat? http://arabculture.about.com/culture/arabculture/library/weekly/aa101599.htm

 

"Getting Away with Murder: The Application of Marriage Laws in Jewish Yemen" Dina Dahbany-Miraglia http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/journal/vol2n1/article1_d.html

 

Images of Arabia (Yemen and Saudi Arabia) [Jean-François Troin] http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/TroinArabia/TroinArabia.html

 

Yemen Times http://195.94.0.34:80/yementimes/  

 

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

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