Web Resources
- The Indo European Documentation Center features information on Indo-Iranian and Anatolian languages
- The Library of Congress provides country studies as part of their Area Handbook Series; 101 country studies are currently available online
- Scholarly associations include:
- There are also websites for the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) and the European Association of Middle East Librarians (MELCOM)
- There are many research and educational organizations that publish journals focusing on the Middle East including:
- Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU) (publishers of The Link)
- The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) (publishers of the Journal of Palestine Studies)
- The Jerusalem branch of the IPS, the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), are the publishers of Jerusalem Quarterly
- The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS)
- The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) publishes the ISIM Review
- Many of ISIM's other publications, including its annual report, are available full-text & for free from its webpage.
- The Middle East Institute (publishers of the Middle East Journal)
- The Middle East Policy Council (publishers of Middle East Policy)
- The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) (publisher of Middle East Report and Middle East Report Online)
- The Middle East Review of International Affairs (publisher of MERIA Journal)
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) website
- MELA Notepad, the blog of the Middle East Librarians Association
- News sources:
- Arabic
- Akhbaar.com (links to a large number of daily, weekly, and monthly Arabic publications, as well as links to Arabic radio and TV stations online)
- Eyoon.com (links to a large number of daily, weekly, and monthly Arabic publications, as well as links to Arabic radio and TV stations online)
- Persian
- Turkish
- Kurdish
- Arabic
- Religion:
- Islam
- The Muslim Student Union (MSU) at the University of Southern California has put together The Noble Qur'an, which presents a transliteration and three English translations; and a searchable Hadith Database
- Al-Islam from the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project presents a lot of information on Shi'ah Islam.
- The International Association of Sufism is an international Sufi organization that publishes Sufism: an Inquiry
- Serving the Guest: A Sufi Cookbook & Art Gallery features some good information on Sufism, as well as recipes and artwork.
- Islamic calendar from Islamicity.com
- Calendar converter, to convert Islamic, Persian, and Gregorian dates, as well as Kurdish & Afghan calendars, to Gregorian & back again (based on Formilab's Calendar converter).
- Zoroastrianism
- The Zoroastrian Archives is a good source for information on Zoroastrianism.
- Islam
- Other subject guides
- A brief guide to Naguib Mahfouz and modern Arabic prose, by Kaoukab Chebaro, Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries.
- The 21 "best" books in Middle East studies, based on a survey by Garth Hall of 52 faculty members around the world (November 2005).
- Government and NGO resources
- Most Middle Eastern countries have official government websites; there are also sites for the League of Arab States, and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
- U.S. Government information and documents relating to the Middle East can be found in many places, including:
- Thomas, a resource created by the Library of Congress to track legislation in the U.S. Congress
- The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
- The State Department has also produced a website called Muslim Life in America
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both provide information on human rights in all countries including those in the Middle East
- The United Nations website provides access to U.N. information and documents on all countries, including Middle Eastern countries
