External Links
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Artists/Galleries/Museums/Exhibits
- American Legation Museum in Tangier-Morocco
- Arab Artists Resources & Training
- Davids Samling (The David Collection) in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Palestinian Heritage Foundation
- The Textile Museum
Films and Video
- After 911 Videos Project
- Arab Film Distribution
- ArtMattan Productions
- Arte East
- Bullfrog Films
- Cinema Guild
- Documentary Educational Resources
- Docuseek
- Filmakers Library
- Film Movement
- Films for the Humanities & Sciences
- First Run/Icarus Films
- Global Film Initiative
- Landmark Media
- Media Education Foundation
- New Day Films
- Octane Seating - Resources for student filmmakers
- Ruth Diskin Films
- Tamouz Media
- Third World Newsreel
- Women Make Movies
Funding Agencies
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright)
- Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (Fulbright)
- School of Historical Studies
- Social Science Research Council
- United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Program for Int’l Peace
Job Search Engines
- ESLworldwide.com (for language instructors)
- ESL employment.com
- teachingenglish.ca
Language Study Online
- ArabAcademy.com
- Arabiccomplete.com
- eslpartyland
- Foreigncy.org
- Native Monks (language tutors marketplace)
- Online Colleges in Ohio
- On-Line Turkish
- Qasid Online
Publications
- Al-`Arabiyya (the Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic)
- Arabies Trends, International Magazine on Arab Affairs
- Arab Studies Journal
- Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East
- Cyberorient (peer-reviewed online journal of the virtual Middle East)
- Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies
- Gulf States Newsletter
- International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
- Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
- Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition
- Maghreb Review
- MESA Review of Middle East Studies
- Meridians
- Middle East Economic Survey (MEES)
- Middle East Institute/Journal
- Middle East Report
- Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
- Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin
- Middle East Policy
- The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
- Oman Arabic Daily (in Arabic)
- Popular Communications
- Syria Net
- Tingis a magazine on and about Morocco
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Working Papers on New Media & Information Technology in the Middle East
Publishers/Software/Music
- American Educational Trust
- Arabic Music Internet Reference
- Arabic Music Source
- Aramedia, Arabic Software Localization Translation
- Archaeology & Art Publications of Istanbul
- Birsen Architectural Publications (on Turkish architecture)
- Norman Ross Publishing, Inc.
- Oh My Gosh Publishing
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Sakhr Software
- Syracuse University Press
- Turath.org (promotes Arab and multicultural arts)
- Turath (Arabic and Islamic books on CD rom)
Research Institutes/Organizations/Portals
- American Institute for Maghreb Studies
- American Institute for Yemeni Studies
- American Research Center in Egypt
- Arab Social Science Research
- bab.la (online dictionary for 28 languages)
- Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien
- Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM)
- The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University
- Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University
- Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
- Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Mada al-Carmel: The Arab Center of Applied Social Research
- Middle East Institute/Journal
- MyNetResearch.com
- Online Colleges in Ohio
- ResearchGATE
- Social Science Research Council
- University of Tokyo, Islamic Area Studies Project
Societies/Associations
- Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
- AMIDEAST
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
- American Association of Teachers of Arabic
- American Institute for Yemeni Studies
- Americans for Middle East Understanding
- Amnesty International
- Association for Environmental and Developmental Studies in the Arab World
- Association for Israel Studies
- Assyrian Academic Society
- British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
- Canadian Committee of the Middle East Studies Association
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
- Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine
- Central Eurasian Studies Society
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
- European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES)
- Institute of Turkish Studies
- International Institute of Islamic Thought
- The International Qajar Studies Association
- Ivri-NASAWI (New Association of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists and Writers International)
- Lebanese Studies Association
- Middle East Institute/Journal
- Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)
- Middle East Medievalists
- Middle East Research Associates
- Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (Fulbright)
- Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
- Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
- Search for Common Ground
- Shahnameh
- Society for Armenian Studies
- Society for Iranian Studies
- Syrian Studies Association
- Tetouan Asmir Association (Morocco)
- Turkish Studies Association
Special Projects
- Arab-American Educators Network
- Arab Culture and Civilization (website by National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education-NITLE)
- Arabic Music Info. Source
- ARSHEEF
- A Bridge To Egypt
- Carrie, Full-Text Library (documents on Central Asia)
- Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
- The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University
- Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Islam and Human Rights Project of Emory University
- Islamic Networks in National and Transnational Contexts (18th-20th Centuries), Junior Research Group at the Oriental Department, Bochum University, Germany
- Islamic Studies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion
- Kan Zaman, Community Ensemble (Classical and Folk Music of the Arab World)
- The Maghrebi Studies Group of Binghampton University: Maghrebi Literature Web
- The Maghrebi Studies Group of Binghampton University: Music from the Maghreb
- Marhaba: Welcome to the World of Arabic (Special project of the Middle East Center at UPenn and the School District of Philadelphia)
- Middle East/North Africa Financial Network (MENAFN)
- Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR)
- Pars Times (information gateway Iran and the Middle East)
- Records on Islam
- Transregional and Emerging Areas Studies (TEAS), Japan
- Truth in the Middle East
- Turkish Archives Site
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (Middle East region)
- Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP)
Study Abroad Programs
- Abroad101: student reviews of study abroad programs.
- American University of Beirut-Summer Arabic Program
- Arab American Language Institute in Morocco (AALIM)
- Arabesk Studies in Damascus
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
- Center Sidi Bou Said for Languages - Intensive Arabic Language Program
- Cairo Housing Revolution (help with rentals in Cairo)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) German Academic Exchange Service
- GoAbroad.com
- GoGrad - Expert Guide to Graduate School Abroad
- Guide to Internships Abroad
- Lebanese American University–Summer Institute for Intensive Arabic Language and Culture
- Maher Language Institute
- Maryville University Online: ESL Resources for Teachers Guide
- Noor Majan Training Institute in Ibri, Oman
- Passage to Morocco: cultural and linguistic immersion program in North Africa sponsored by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the Virginia Military Institute
- University of Florida-Arabic Language Institute, Summer Arabic Program in Fez
- SIT Study Abroad-Middle Eastern Studies Programs
- StudyAbroad.com
- StudyLink.com
Technology/Internet
- Al Bawaba - The Middle East Gateway
- Arab Information Technology Project, Georgetown University
- Arabist (comprehensive Middle East search engine)
- ArabO Arab Sites Directory
- Azerbaijan Internet Links
- Grammica - Grammar Check
- Islamic Studies Pathways
- Lebanon Links
- Middle East Network Information Center at Univ. of Texas at Austin
- Muslim Students’ Association News Scholarbase (MESANEWS)
- Musalman
- Native Monks (language tutors marketplace)
- The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
- www.AccessGCC.com (informational portal serving Bahrain and the GCC states)
University Programs
- The American University in Cairo
- American University of Beirut, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Arizona, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Arizona, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies
- Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University
- Ben-Gurion University, Department of Middle East Studies
- University of Bergen, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Binghamton University, Institute of Global Cultural Studies
- Binghamton University, Middle East and North Africa Program
- Birzeit University
- University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- University of California, Los Angeles, Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Middle East Studies
- California State University, San Bernardino, Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMES)
- The Center for Arabic Language & Eastern Studies
- University of Chicago, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Galillee College
- Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
- Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program
- Harvard University, Center of Middle Eastern Studies
- Indiana University, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures/Middle East Studies Program
- Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin—Working Group on Modernity and Islam
- International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization (ISTAC)
- University of Maryland, College Park Middle East Studies
- University of Michigan, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies
- Moroccan Arabic Language Center
- Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University
- New York University, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
- University of Oxford (U.K.), Near Eastern Studies Programme
- University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center
- Portland State University, Middle East Studies Center
- Qatar University, Gulf Studies Program
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Institute for Middle East, Central Asian and Caucasus Studies
- University of Texas at Austin, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Tyler Junior College
- University of Utah, Middle East Center
- University of Virginia, Middle East Studies Program
- University of Washington, Middle East Center
- Virginia Military Institute
- Yale University, Council on Middle East Studies
- Yale University, Program in Islamic Studies
- Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies