Country of Words : A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Refqa Abu-Remaileh
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Country of Words A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Reşad Ekrem Koçu
"A joint project initiated by Salt and Kadir Has University in 2018, istanbulansiklopedisi.org offers access to the printed volumes of Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia and thousands of related documents. It brings together over 40,000 digitized documents, incorporating published encyclopedia articles and a body of archival material that forms the basis for subsequent volumes. Enabling an in-depth analysis of the archive, the online platform provides a basis to trace and explore the visual and textual connections between various sources.
Blending common facts with unusual accounts, the Istanbul Encyclopedia —and the relevance of the knowledge it entails— is worthy of further scrutiny."
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Accountability Archive
"The Accountability Archive is a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists.
We have a vision of a public resource to be used by future historians, and researchers, helping understand how power holders attempted to manufacture consent for the genocidal aggression towards the Palestinian people. We hope this resource will serve to hold them to account."
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Open Access Book: Early Civilization and the American Modern : Images of Middle Eastern origins in the United States, 1893–1939
Author: Eva Miller
Published: UCL Press, 2024
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a particular story about the United States’ role in the long history of world civilization was constructed in public spaces, through public art and popular histories. This narrative posited that civilization and its benefits – science, law, writing, art and architecture – began in Egypt and Mesopotamia before passing ever further westward, towards a triumphant culmination on the American continent.
Early Civilization and the American Modern explores how this teleological story answered anxieties about the United States’ unique role in the long march of progress. Eva Miller focuses on important figures who collaborated on the creation of a visual, progressive narrative in key institutions, world’s fairs and popular media: Orientalist and public intellectual James Henry Breasted, astronomer George Ellery Hale, architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and decorative artists Lee Lawrie and Hildreth Meière. At a time when new information about the ancient Middle East was emerging through archaeological excavation, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia appeared simultaneously old and new. This same period was crucial to the development of public space and civic life across the United States, as a shared sense of historical consciousness was actively pursued by politicians, philanthropists, intellectuals, architects and artists."
Open Access Book: Aspects of Ottoman Economy and Culture
Editors: Phokion Kotzageorgis & Dimitris Papastamatiou
Published: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of History and Archaeology, Thessaloniki 2024
195 pages.
ISBΝ: 9786185649555
CONTENTS
Preface
PART 1: ECONOMY
Stratis Anagnostou: The Transaction of the Foreign Trade between Lesvos and France and the Collection of Customs Taxes in the Island during the 18th Century, According to Relevant French Archives
Yasar Tolga Cora: "It is Contraction not Crisis": the Panic in the Ottoman Markets in 1906-1908
Melina Grammatikopoulou: European Perceptions of Ottoman Labour
Phokion P. Kotzageorgis: Taking the Baton from J.C. Alexander: the Great Meteoron Monastery in the Early Ottoman Period (15th-16th centuries)
Sevinç Kiiçiikoglu: Financial Supervision in Ottoman Provinces During the era ofSelim III: Emerging Actors
Fatma Öncel: Visualising Confiscation Records of Early-nineteenth Century Ottoman Greece
Dimitris Papastamatiou: Conversing with the Sublime Porte: a Moreot Magnate's Political Interplay with the Ottoman Authority
Onur Usta: What do Gristmills Tell us about the Social and Economic History of Ottoman Anatolia in the Early Seventeenth Century? Rethinking the Wrath of Nature: the Case of Urfa (Ruha), 1629-1631
PART 2: CULTURE
Antonis G. Katsarakis: The ‘‘Yali Camii” in Crete, Greece. An Interpetation of its Layout and Distinctive Dome
Seda Kula: Ottoman Imperial School of Fine Arts’ Role in Architectural Heritage Related Studies and Practices in Late Ottoman Era
Dr. Melpomeni S. Perdikopoulou: The Double Hamam of Ottoman Zichna; an Effort to Interpret an Unknown Bath
Georgios Salakidis: An 18th Century Greek Translation of Mehmed b. Pіr Ali Birgivi’s Vasiyetname
Monday, August 5, 2024
New OA Journal: The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
This
publication is a direct response to the war in Gaza, the ongoing genocide and
ethnic cleansing campaign, and the illegal settlements and apartheid system
that Palestinians are subject to.
We
are a group of students who believe in the power of art to make a change to
this suffering. Where political rhetoric has failed, where news reporting
agencies have faltered in delivering truth, we believe that art has a massive
potential to capture and convey the plight of the Palestinian people to those
who seem otherwise unbothered. As foreign observers of this conflict, ones
whose tax dollars are used to fund the bombs being dropped indiscriminately, we
feel we must do something.
This
publication is the result of that feeling. We aim to use the power of art to
address the nuance of the situation, to build empathy for the Palestinian
struggle, and to shine a light onto the situation with the hopes of bringing
these emotions into the public conversation and affecting change. Most
importantly, we aim to use the power of art to protest and convey the
unconditional immorality of this situation. If you have strong feelings about
the war in Gaza or have produced artwork that grapples with this subject, then
this publication is for you. Furthermore, we want to emphasize our commitment
to elevating Palestinian voices in this collection. This collection seeks to
center the art and writing of Palestinian artists and bolster their voices with
the art of other communities and allies who stand with them in protest."
The Olive Tree: https://theolivetreecollection.wordpress.com/
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum
This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the "alama" or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and dating of early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and the range of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form of Islamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and the characteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part focuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to the subject. Research into the engraving techniques is presented with analysis of the stones used. This publication will be a standard work of reference for years to come.
- Contributor
- Hoyland, Robert ( Contributor )
- Morton, Alexander ( Contributor )
- Bhandare, Shailendra ( Contributor )
- Ambers, Janet ( Contributor )
- Humphrey, Sylvia ( Contributor )
- Meeks, Nigel ( Contributor )
- Sax, Margaret ( Contributor )
- Date published
- 2011
- Institution
- British Museum
- Series name
- British Museum Research Publications
- Editor
- Porter, Venetia
- Publisher
- British Museum
- Place of publication
- London
- ISBN
- 9780861591602
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike