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
 

Last Update 10/07

Suggestions of links are welcomed.

INDEX

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

Check out a blog 

 
 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/
Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East http://www.tabsir.net
 
Virtual Middle East Library http://ssgdoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vlib/html/

 
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 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
 
 
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Middle East http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/index.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/international.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 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/directory.html
 
Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies http://ccas.georgetown.edu/
 
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast
 
Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Study http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/
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 Pennsylvania Middle East Center http://mec.sas.upenn.edu/
 

Institutes and Research Centers
 
 
 
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq http://www.taarii.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
 
The American Research Center in Egypt http://www.arce.org
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.palestine-studies.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/
 
 
SOTA (Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan) http://www.turkiye.net/sota/sota.html
 
The Turkish Studies Association http://www.h-net.org/~thetsa/

 
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/
 
 
Arabian Wildlife On Line http://www.arabianwildlife.com/
Ornithological Society of the Middle East http://www.osme.org/index.html
  

 
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.haaretz.com/
 
 
The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.co.il/
 
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
 
 
MERIP http://www.merip.org/
 
 
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/welcome.htm
 
Middle East Studies Association Newsletter http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Onlinenews/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/
 
 
Sudanic Africa http://www.hf.uib.no/i/smi/sa/sahome.html
 
 
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]
 

 
Photos and Images
 

Images of Marrakesh (1995 Marrakesh Folk Festival) http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/~jr/gallery/
Karem Ben Khelifa http://www.karimbenkhelifa.com
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/CurrentSite/


Book Sellers and Publishers
 
The Arabic Library on the Web http://www.arabiclibrary.com/
 
Boustany's Publishing House http://www.boustanys.com/
 
Interlink Publishing http://www.interlinkbooks.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

 
E-cards
Ancient Egyptian http://www.discoveringegypt.co.uk/ecards/
Eid Cars http://www.eidgreetings.com/


 
 
Middle Eastern Food and Recipes
 
 
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 Restaurant venues in and around New York http://search.cityguide.aol.com/newyork/restaurants/browse/restaurant-middle-eastern/v-45-1040-
 
Recipes (Arabic News) http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Recipes/RecipesDB.html