Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo is a project in two stages.
First, we have built an open-source, interactive, data-rich map of the city of Aleppo, at the neighborhood scale. Users can navigate the city, with the aid of high resolution satellite imagery from before and during the current civil war, and explore geo-located data about cultural sites and urban damage. We will add data as it becomes available; currently we are grateful for datasets from from Human Rights Watch, the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), and the Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) at the U.S. Department of State.
Second, the map is a platform into which additional data of all sorts can be integrated. It is an invitation to students and invited collaborators to record and narrate urban damage in Aleppo — at the cultural, infrastructural, or neighborhood scale — and to present that research in case studies which will be added to the website over time.
We invite ideas and propositions, and hope to build on the data that we have compiled here to develop further research on and engagement with the situation in Aleppo. It is a call for inquiry and a call to action.
Since 2012, the people of Aleppo — one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world — have been exposed to catastrophic violence. Many thousands have been injured, died, or fled. Our project focuses on their city and what has been done to it and what might happen to it in the future.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Conflict Urbanism Aleppo
Conflict Urbanism Aleppo
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Open Access Journal: Roshangar: Roshan Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
"The Roshangar Editorial Board is proud to announce the first issue of Roshangar: Roshan Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal. Click the above photo to download the first issue of the journal, free of charge. The journal features interdisciplinary student research in the numerous field including Persian studies, history, gender studies, and film studies. Please read and enjoy the articles, and continue following our publications in the future!"
Journal: http://www.roshangarumd.com/#!the-journal/jyxq3.
PDF of Vol. 1, Issue 1: http://media.wix.com/ugd/b02b43_d8e2f947db4e4df4a4fe46dc4fb3078a.pdf
Digital Averroes Research Environment
Digital Averroes Research Environment
The Digital Averroes Research Environment (DARE) collects and edits the works of the Andalusian Philosopher Averroes or Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Rušd, born in Cordoba in 1126, died in Marrakesh in 1198.
DARE makes accessible online digital editions of Averroes's works, and images of all textual witnesses, including manuscripts, incunabula, and early prints. Averroes's writings and the scholarly literature are documented in a bibliographical database.
At the same time, DARE is a research platform, giving scholars who work on Averroes the opportunity to present their research and to discuss questions related to Averroes's thought in the Forum. A collaborative, evolving, and open-ended project hosted by DARE is the Averroes Encyclopaedia, designed to document Averroes's philosophical, scientific and technical vocabulary.
Launched by the Thomas-Institut in February 2010, DARE will continue to evolve during the next years before reaching the complete documentation and digitization of Averroes's works that is intended. DARE is funded by DFG.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Digitized Turkish Periodicals - Ankara Üniversitesi Gazeteler Veritabanı
1. Akşam (1929-1964)
2. Cumhuriyet (1929-1950)
3. Gaye-i Milliye (1921)
4. Hakimiyet-i Milliye (1916-1928)
5. İkdam Gazetesi (1889-1915)
6. Peyam Gazetesi (1913-1914)
7. Servet Gazetesi (1890-1904)
8. Servet-i Fünun (1889-1928)
9. Takvim-i Vekayi (1841-1919)
10. Tanin Gazetesi (1908-1912)
11. Tarik Gazetesi (1886-1892)
12. Tercüman-ı Hakikat (1879-1922)
13. Ulus Gazetesi (1935-1937)
14. Vatan Gazetesi (1941)
15. Yeni İstanbul (1949-1950)
16. Yeni Sabah (1939-1950)
17. Zafer (1949-1950)
18. Zaman (1934-1935)
[Dates of coverage are approximate]
See also: Hakkı Tarık Us Collection - digital archive of Ottoman periodicals.
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Open Access Newspaper Archive: گلشن = Gulshan = Gulsan [1924 - 1928]
Gulshan (1924-1928)
Published: Tihrān:
Digitized by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in ZEFYS : Zeitungsinformationssystem.
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Open Access Newspaper Archive: Türkische Post [1926-1943]
Türkische Post : Tageszeitung für den Nahen Osten.
Publisher: Istanbul, 1926-1943.
Digitized by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in ZEFYS : Zeitungsinformationssystem.
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Open Access Newspaper Archive: Aegyptische Nachrichten [1912]
Aegyptische Nachrichten (1912)
Published: Cairo:
Digitized by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in ZEFYS : Zeitungsinformationssystem.
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Open Access Newspaper Archive: المؤيد = al-Muʼayyad = al-Muʼayyid = al-Mu'aiyad [1896-1898]
al-Muʼayyad - jarīdah yawmīyah siyāsīyah tijārīyah
Published: al-Qāhirah : Muṣṭafá Kāmil, 1889-1915.
Digital copies: July 1, 1896 - Dec. 31, 1898.
Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies
Monday, April 11, 2016
Aligned corpus of Divan-e-Hafez, translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.
Aligned corpus of Divan-e-Hafez, translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.
The parallel corpus, in verse level, has been constructed by Saeed Majidi, Tufts University and Maryam Foradi, Leipzig University, Germany. The word by word alignment of Farsi and English editions by Saman Rezaie under the supervision of Maryam Foradi.
Farsi Edition: urn:cts:farsiLit:hafez.divan.perseus-far1 Diwan-i Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī. Edited by Muhammad Qazwini and Qasim Gani as available on ganjoor.net. Tehran, Caphana-i Maglis. 1941.
English Edition: urn:cts:farsiLit:hafez.div.perseus-eng1 The Dīvān. Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.
Open Persian Project of the Open Philology Project
Open Persian Project of the Open Philology Project
Read this page in Persian.
Classical Persian is universally recognized as one of the world’s great classical languages, but outside of Iran it has not received the attention given Greek and Latin or even classical Arabic, despite the survival of an immensely rich literature and a tradition of scholarship that is still alive today.
One of the primary aims of the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig is to encourage communication and collaboration among the world’s leading traditions of classical scholarship, sharing resources and expertise as widely as possible, while also encouraging and facilitating the broadest participation, both within the academic world and from the wider public
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European scholarship first became aware of the importance of Classical Persian in the late eighteenth century with the work of pioneering philologists like Sir William Jones, who translated a number of poems into English, but it was not until the publication of Goethe’s magnificent tribute to Hafez in the West-östlicher Divan of 1819 that the importance of this tradition came to the attention of a wider public.
Persian poetry, including that of Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, and many others, has continued to fascinate readers and scholars around the world, making the work of Hafez an especially attractive topic to begin the Leipzig Open Philology Project’s work with Persian- one that can engage both scholars and the wider public, both in Iran and internationally.
As a first step, we are assembling a wide variety of translations of Hafez into many different languages, and providing a website where participants can play a game of aligning the words and phrases of the original text with the corresponding words in the translation, saving their work in a form that vividly displays the links when you mouse over the text. We believe that this game encourages close reading of the text while also exposing the limitations and compromises that translation necessarily entails.
We hope that this activity will be of interest to several different groups:
Readers– who are reading or studying the poems Learners– who are studying the language itself Contributors– who wish to enhance the reading and learning resources that will be freely available to others in the future.
If you identify with one of these groups, or just want to see whether you enjoy the alignment game, please feel free to try it out. We welcome your participation.
We will have some webinars to instruct interested participants to let them go forward step by step in the Perseids treebanking environment and our alpheios alignment environment.
Regardless of language you speak, join us and be a part of Open Persian Society.
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Here you can find the aligned corpus of Divan-e-Hafez, translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Lesson Plans - Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona
Lesson Plans - Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona
"The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona has assembled an impressive array of lesson plans and educational materials on topics related to the geographies and cultures of the Middle East. Organized in alphabetical order, here educators will find such fascinating guides as "100 Years in Mesopotamia: A Century of Conflict in Iraq, 1914-2014," "Afghanistan Through Youth Literature," and "All Roads Lead to Istanbul: 1550 World's Fair Simulation," among many others. The lesson plans are distinctive for their erudition and their appropriately complex treatment of historical and cultural subjects. Many of them feature PowerPoint presentations, primary sources, or other instructional guides to help lead high school and college students through the lessons"
[from The Scout Report -- Volume 22, Number 14]
"The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona has assembled an impressive array of lesson plans and educational materials on topics related to the geographies and cultures of the Middle East. Organized in alphabetical order, here educators will find such fascinating guides as "100 Years in Mesopotamia: A Century of Conflict in Iraq, 1914-2014," "Afghanistan Through Youth Literature," and "All Roads Lead to Istanbul: 1550 World's Fair Simulation," among many others. The lesson plans are distinctive for their erudition and their appropriately complex treatment of historical and cultural subjects. Many of them feature PowerPoint presentations, primary sources, or other instructional guides to help lead high school and college students through the lessons"
[from The Scout Report -- Volume 22, Number 14]
Open Access Journal: ART-SANAT JOURNAL / ART-SANAT DERGİSİ
Art Sanat Journal / Art-Sanat Dergisi
Archaeology/ Arkeoloji, Art History/ Sanat tarihi, History of Architecture/ Mimarlık Tarihi, Restoration-Conservation/ Restorasyon-Konservasyon.
Published: Istanbul: Istanbul University, Institute of the Art History, 2014-
Art-Sanat is an international academic refereed e-journal.
Frequency: Biannual
ISSN: 2148-3542
PUBLISHED ISSUES/ YAYINLANMIŞ SAYILAR
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Open Access Manuscript: Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah (Bodleian Library)
The Bodleian Libraries’ important 12th-century copy of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī’s Book of Fixed Stars, an illustrated Arabic treatise on the Constellations is now available online via Digital Bodleian and Fihrist.
Author: Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Title: Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
Shelfmark: MS. Huntington 212
Date: 1170
Collection: Oriental
Source: Bodleian Libraries
Open Access Digitised Manuscript: British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165
"The British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165, dating from the eighth century, has now been fully digitised and is available on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site. Among the most ancient copies of the Qurʼān, it comprises 121 folios containing over two-thirds of the complete text and is one of the largest of known fragments of an early Qurʼān written in the māʼil script."
See also: Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Endangered Archives Programme: Two collections available : EAP630 and EAP613
Endangered Archives Programme made two collections available online in March: EAP630 and EAP613 :
EAP630: Manuscripts from Kokand Khanate (1710-1876) court library from the museum sources of Kokand and Fergana Valley and private collections
EAP613: Digital preservation and cataloguing of early printed Armenian maps, periodicals and newspapers, and making them accessible online
More at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/endangeredarchives/2016/04/new-collections-online-march-2016.html