This site includes webpages and on-line articles relevant to the cultural anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa. The list is provided as a service to anyone interested in anthropology of the Middle East and is not intended as an endorsement of the information at these sites by MES or any of its officers.

If you know of a site that could be linked here, or you find an error,

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last updated 10/23/01

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The September 11 Tragedy: Anthropological Resources
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/wtc.htm
 
"Ask Bilqis" ["Dear Abby" for Muslim women]
http://zawaj.com/ask.html
  
 
INDEX TO TOPICS

Links Sites
General Information Sites
Arab Americans
Arabic Language and Study Programs
Book Sellers and Publishers
Clothing
Customs
Development
E-cards
Economics
Embassies
Ethnoastronomy
Food
Folklore
Gender and Sexuality
Health and Ethnomedicine
Home Pages
Human Rights
HumorInternet and Computing
Islam
Judaism
Languages
Libraries
Maps
Middle East Centers
Music and Dance
Orientalism and Travel
Organizations
Periodicals
Photography
Poetry
Proverbs
Sports
Weather and Climate
Wildlife

FOR COUNTRY INDEX, CLICK HERE
 
 
Links Sites
 
Academic Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies Web Site http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/MESCenters.html
 
Albawaba http://www.albawaba.com/
 
Arab Net http://www.arab.net/

Arab World Online http://www.awo.net

 
Arabia.com http://www.arabia.com/english/
 
Arabic Around the Web http://www.arabic2000.com/links.html
 
Arabist http://www.arabist.com/
 
Islamic Nations and their Neighbors on the Information Superhighway http://vassiliansdepot.com/iranweb.html
 
Indigenous Resources for Asia &the Middle East http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html#asia
 
The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html
 
The Middle East on the Internet http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/links.html
 
Middle East Network Information Center http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html
 
Middle East Sites on the Internet (University of Bergen) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Midtspraak/links.htm
 
Middle Eastern and Arab Resources on the Internet http://www.ionet.net/~usarch/WTB-Services/MiddleEast/WTB-MiddleEast.shtml   
 
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Middle East http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/index.html
 
General Information Sites
 
albab.com http://www.al-bab.com/
 
CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
 
Country Reports (1997) of Dept. of State http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic/trade_reports/neareast97/index.html
 
Encyclopedia of the Orient http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
 
Miftah Shamali [for North Africa] http://i-cias.com/m.s/index.htm
 
Planet Arabia http://english.planetarabia.com/  
Arab Americans
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee http://www.adc.org/
 
Arab American University Graduates http://www.aaug.org/
 
Aswad, Barbara C. "Arab Americans: Those Who Followed Columbus" http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/Pres%20Addresses/aswad.htm
 
Cafe Arabica http://www.cafearabica.com/
 
Washington Report on the Middle East http://www.washington-report.org/
[includes sample articles]
Arabic Language Programs
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic http://www.wm.edu/aata/
 
AMIDEAST http://www.amideast.org/
 
Arab Academy ["The world's first and only professional site for learning Arabic and Quran"] http://www.arabacademy.com/
 
Arabic Studies Programs in the Arab World (Barbara R. von Schlegell & John L. Hayes http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/arabstud.htm
 
Arabic Teacher (CDs) http://www.arabicteacher.com/
 
Babel: Arabic http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
 
Lingua Guide Arabic http://www.linguaguide.com/arabic.asp
 
Yemen Language Center http://www.ylcint.com/
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/
 
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
Clothing
Islamic Clothing On Line http://www.angelfire.com/biz/IslamicClothing/index.html
 
Threads of Time: Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez, Morocco (L. W. Mackie) [video] http://romlx6.rom.on.ca/pub/fez/
 
The World of Beduin Weaving http://www.beduinweaving.com/
 
Customs
 
 
 
 
Development
 
The Applied Anthropology Computer Network http://www.acs.oakland.edu/~dow/anthap.htm
 
"Development Anthropology: A Rewarding Career for Middle East Anthropologists" (El Sukkary-Stolba) [AN April 98]
 
Indigenous Plant Protection in Yemen: Development Anthropology in Action http://www.aiys.org/webdate/plant1.html
 
"Practicing Anthropology in the Middle East" (Huxley) [AN May 98]
 
UNDP http://www.undp.org
 
USAID http://www.usaid.org
 
The World Bank http://www.worldbank.org
 
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  
Economics and Commerce
MENARA Business (The North African Business Bulletin Board) http://www.casanet.net.ma/menara/businessHome.asp
 
Muslim World Yellow Pages http://www.muslim-yellowpages.com/
 
Embassies
 
Arab Embassies in the United States http://www.awo.net/trav-ent/embassy/home.asp
 
Permanent Missions to the United Nations http://www.undp.org/missions/index.html
 
United States Embassies in the Arab World http://www.awo.net/trav-ent/embassy/home.asp
 
Ethnoastronomy
 
Stars and Texts in Arabia (D. Varisco) http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/ae16.html 
Food
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
Folklore

Palestinian Folklore http://www.barghouti.com/folklore/

Gender and Sexuality
"Ask Bilqis" http://zawaj.com/ask.html ["Dear Abby" for Muslim women]
 
Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) http://www.geocities.com/amewstudies/
 
"Passion, Power and Politics in a Palestinian Tourist Market " (G. Bowman) http://www.ukc.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/glenn/Passion.html
 
Polemics on Veiling Egyptian Women in the Twentieth Century (Ghada Barsoum)  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3519/
 
"REFLECTIONS ON FIELDWORK AMONG THE SINAI BEDOUIN WOMEN" (Ann Gardner) http://www.sherryart.com/women/bedouin.html
 
RAWA: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan http://www.rawa.org/
 
Women in the Middle East (links) http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/women.html
 
ZAN: A Directory/Anthology about Iranian Women http://www.zan.org/home.html
 
Zawaj.com http://zawaj.com [Muslim matrimonial site]
Health and Ethnomedicine

"Introduction to Ethnomedicine: Examples from Yemen" [Beth Kangas] Yemen Update 35 (1994: 22-27)

"Murshidat ,Midwives and Nurses: Women Transforming Health Care and Social Relations in Yemen" [Walters, Delores M.] Yemen Update 40 (1998:32)

Home Pages
Anderson, Jon W. (CUA) http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/anth/anderson/
 
El Guindi, Fadwa http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~elguindi/
 
Shankland, David (Univ. of Wales-Lampeter) http://www.lamp.ac.uk/anthropology/dshankland.htm

Omanis on the WWW http://www.oman.org/omanis.htm

 
Varisco, Daniel Martin (Hofstra) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9361
Human Rights
The Arab Organization for Human Rights http://leb.net/ao
 
AHBAB: Gay and Lesbian Arab Society http://www.glas.org/ahbab/home.htm
 
CAFMENA (Mesa Committee on Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa) http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/cafmena.htm
 
Middle East and North Africa: Human Rights Activism in Cyberspace (Nancy Gallagher) http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/gallegh.htm

The Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia http://www.miraserve.com/

 
Humor and Jokes
 
Humor [includes some Nasruddin jokes] http://Fox.nstn.ca:80/~ihussain/Humor.html
 
Iran [Satire and political cartoons] http://www.iranian.com/Times/Subs/Revolution/satire.html
 
Iraq4u.com Jokes page http://www.iraq4u.com/advscripts/jokes/search.asp
 
Jokestan [Persian Jokes] http://www.jokestan.com/
 
Nasruddin Humor http://Fox.nstn.ca:80/~ihussain/Humor.html
Internet and Computing
 
Amr's Arabic Archive http://www-ceg.ceg.uiuc.edu/~haggag/arabic.html
 
The Arabian Oasis: Arabic on the WWW http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3285/arabic.htm
 
Arabic Computing (YemenNet) http://members.aol.com/yalnet/computer.htm
 
The Arabic Macintosh http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/Institutter/smi/ksv/arabhome.html

Arabizing the Internet (Jon Anderson) http://www.ecssr.ac.ae/periodicals/03uae.occpap30.htm

 
Aramedia http://aramedia.com/
 
"Civic Pluralism & New Media in the Islamic World" (Anderson) [AN April 97]
 
"Cybernauts of the Arab Diaspora: Electronic Mediation in Transnational Cultural Identities" (Anderson) http://www.georgetown.edu/research/arabtech/anders97.htm
 
The Internet In the Middle East and North Africa http://www.hrw.org/advocacy/internet/mena/index.htm
 
The Internet and the Middle East: Commerce Brings Region On-Line [Jon Anderson] http://www.georgetown.edu/research/arabtech/meer97.htm
 
"Is the Internet Islam's 'Third Wave' or the 'End of Civilization'?" (J. Anderson) http://www.usip.org/oc/vd/confpapers/polrelander.html
 
Jaghbub Font Package for Mackintosh http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/ksv/jaghbub.html
 
Middle East Studies On-Line (J. Anderson) http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/anderson.htm
 
Network Resources for the Middle East Scholar http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/ksv/NetResources.html
 
Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology (Corinne Blake) http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/
 
Islam
 
"A Clash of Fundamentalisms" (S. Weir) http://www.merip.org/mer/mer204/weir.htm
 
A Directory of Internet Resources on Islamic Studies http://www.academicinfo.net/Islam.html
 
"Abdul Wahab on Family and Gender: The Challenges of Modernity in Egypt" (Andrea Rugh) [AN January 99]
 
The American Muslim Council http://www.amconline.org/newamc/
 
Al Azhar Mosque http://www.alazhar.org/index8.htm
 
"Globalizing Politics and Religion in the Muslim World" [JON W. ANDERSON] http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/archive/Anderson.html
 
Gregorian-Hijri Dates Converter http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~tawfig/convert/
 
Internet Islamic History Source Book http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
 
Islamic City http://islam.org/
 
Islamic Encyclopedia http://216.21.156.6/encyclop.htm
 
Islam Links (Varisco) http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/daniel_m_varisco/islamlink.html
 
Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic and Religion http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas
 
Islamic Studies Pathways http://www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways/
 
Political Islam (Megastories) http://www.megastories.com/islam/
 
A Shi'ite Encyclopedia http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/
 
Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology (C. Blake) http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/
 
Topical Index of the Quran http://www.islam.org/Mosque/TOPICI.HTM
 
Translations of the Quran http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/
 
"The Underground Friends of God and their Adversaries: A Case Study and Survey of Sufism in Contemporary Yemen" [Buchman, David] YU 39 (1997:21-24)
 
Judaism
 
A Brief History of Iranian Jews [M. Price] http://www.persianoutpost.com/htdocs/iranianjews.html
 
THE CONTRIBUTION OF YEMENITE JEWISH WRITINGS TO YEMENITE HISTORY [Yosef Tobi] http://www.aiys.org/webdate/tobi.html
 
"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
 
"Jews of Iraq, A Will To Survive" [Shlomo Bakhash] http://www.bjcny.org/our.htm
 
Sephardic-Moroccan Page http://www.jewishglobe.com/Morocco/
 
Languages
Algerian Darja-English Dictionary http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3279/
 
Arabic Naming Practices And Period Names List (Da'ud ibn Auda) http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/daud/arabic-naming/
 
Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
 
Semitic Languages [On-Line Dictionaries] http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/afroasia.html#semitic
Libraries
 
American University in Beirut Library http://newton.library.american.edu/
 
Bergen Middle East Centre Library http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/bib/bib.html
 
Berlin -- Center for Modern Oriental Studies http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/inside/orient/zmo-bibl.htm
 
Chicago (University of) Middle East Studies http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/
 
Columbia University Middle East and Jewish Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/
 
Cornell University Library (Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/universi.htm
 
Haifa University Libtrary http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/
 
Leiden University, Oriental Department http://www.leidenuniv.nl/pun/ubhtm/ubor/ordep.htm
 
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
 
Maps
Atlas of the Middle East http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Atlas_middle_east/Atlas_middle_east.html
 
Maps of the Middle East http://www.princeton.edu./~humcomp/dimensions.html
 
Maps of the Middle East http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/middle_east.html
  
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 Documentation Center (Chicago) http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/medoc.html
 
Middle East Network Information Center http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html
 
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
 
 
Music and Dance
 
Arabic Music Info Source http://members.aol.com/amisource/
 
Aramusic http://www.aramusic.com/ http://www.aramusic.com/
 
Images of Marrakesh (1995 Marrakesh Folk Festival) http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/~jr/gallery/
 
Introduction to Rai Music of Algeria http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/rai/
 
Jukebox Arabia http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~t97_aif/music.html
 
Little Egypt Home Page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/IDD/littleeg.htm
 
Mediterranean Shopping On Line http://www.shamra.com
 
Music of the Middle East http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/music.html
 
Near Eastern Music http://www.medieval.org/music/world/ne.html
 
Resources on Arabic and Maghrebian Music http://sunsite.kth.se/feastlib/mrf/yinyue/arab/arabic.html
 
Turath http://www.turath.org/
 
Umm Kulthum Home Page http://almashriq.hiof.no/egypt/700/780/umKoulthoum/index.html
 
van Nieuwkerk , Karin (1998) " An hour for God and an hour for the heart": Islam, gender and female entertainment in Egypt ." Music & Anthropology #3.http://research.umbc.edu/eol/MA/index/number3/nieuwkerk/karin_0.htm
Newspapers and News Sources
 
AJR News Link [comprehensive listing by country] http://ajr.newslink.org/nonusa.html
 
Arab Ambassador http://www.arabambassador.com/
 
Arabic News.Com http://www.arabicnews.com/
 
Arabic On-Line Publications (list) http://www.arabic2000.com/index/online.html
 
al-Ayyam http://www.Al-Ayyam.com/
 
al-Hayat http://www.alhayat.com/
 
BBC Arabic Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/
 
Beirut Times http://www.beiruttimes.com/
 
Gulf Times http://www.gulf-times.com/
 
The Jersualem Post http://www.jpost.co.il/
 
MERIP http://www.merip.org/
 
Middle East Times http://www.METIMES.com/
 
Morocco Today http://www.morocco-today.com/
 
The News Channel by Arabia.On.Line http://www.akhbar.com/
 
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs http://www.wrmea.com/
 
Yemen Times http://www.yementimes.com
Organizations
See AWO list at http://www.awo.net/orgs/arablinks.asp
 
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee http://www.adc.org/
 
American Institute for Maghreb Studies http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/mena/aims/index.html
 
American Institute for Yemeni Studies http://www.aiys.org
 
American Iranian Council http://www.American-Iranian.Org/
 
The American Research Center in Egypt http://www.arce.org/
 
The Arab Organization for Human Rights http://leb.net/ao
 
ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aram/index.html
 
Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) http://www.geocities.com/amewstudies/
 
European Association for Middle East Studies http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/eurames/
 
Gay and Lesbian Arab Society http://leb.net/glas/
 
Institute for Palestine Studies http://www.ipsjps.org/
 
Middle "East Librarians Group (MELCOM) http://www.ex.ac.uk/MELCOM/
 
Middle East Studies Association http://www.mesa.arizona.edu
 
Middle East Medievalists http://www.MiddleEastMedievalists.org/
 
Netherlands Institute for the Near East http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/nino.html
 
Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/nsm/nsmhome.html
 
Ornithological Society of the Middle East http://www.osme.org/index.html
 
SOTA (Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan) http://www.turkiye.net/sota/sota.html
Orientalism and Travel
Ameen Rihani http://www.ameenrihani.org/
 
"Deadening a Beaten Camel: Is Middle East Anthropology Relevant?" (Varisco) [AN October 98]

The Edward Said Archive http://tesa.leb.net/

 
Gertrude Bell Archive http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/home/index.htm
 
The Lawrence of Arabia Factfile http://www.castle-hill-press.com/teweb/index2.htm
 
"Orientalists and the Event of Ghadir Khumm" (M Rizvi) http://www.al-islam.org/short/Ghadir.htm
 
Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust? (Abdallah Laroui) http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/laroui.htm
Periodicals
 
Al Jadid -- A Record of Arab Culture and Arts http://www.aljadid.com/
 
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
 
Journal of Palestine Studies http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/
 
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
 
Middle East Journal http://www.mideasti.org/html/journal.html
 
Middle East Report http://www.merip.org/
 
Middle East Review of International Affairs http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/
 
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/welcome.htm
 
The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/intro.htm
 
New Arabian Studies http://www.ex.ac.uk/ags/nas.htm
 
Oman (Arabic Daily) http://www.omandaily.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/
 
Yemen Update http://www.aiys.org/webdate/update.html
 
Photography

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/

Photographic Gallery of MOHAMED MANNAI [Send an Arabic greeting card]
http://www.mmannai.com/english/index.htm

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

Poetry

Nizar Qabbani (Syrian poet) http://www.palestine-net.com/cafe/walmag/nizar.html

"Qasidas on Cassettes" [Flagg Miller] Yemen Update 39 (1997:25)

Proverbs
 
"As the Arabs Say" (I. Sabbagh) http://www.awo.net/trav-ent/culture/intro.asp
 
Modern Lebanese Proverbs (A. Freyha) http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/800/890/892/proverbs/freyha/index.ht

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

Sports
 
Hebrew-English Basketball Dictionary http://www.shamash.org/bball/dictionary.html
  
Weather and Climate
Climate (FAO) http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/agl/aglw/aquastat/profil.htm
 
Weather Post  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/world.htm
Wildlife
Arabian Wildlife On Line http://www.arabianwildlife.com/
 
Ornithological Society of the Middle East http://www.osme.org/index.html
 
Wild Egypt: An Online Safari http://touregypt.net/wildegypt/