Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Arts of the Islamic World


Arts of the Islamic World : From the Dome of the Rock to the Taj Mahal, the Coronation Mantle, the Ardabil Carpet, and more... c. 640 - 1924 C.E.
Published by: Smarthistory

"Smarthistory is an open educational resource for art history, with the aim to make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. This is a platform for the discipline where art historians can contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. Besides still images, the resource also offers hundreds of videos which are being translated into dozens of languages. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker originally created Smarthistory and are the executive editors. The original resource was merged with Khan Academy in 2011."

Monday, March 23, 2020

The Arab Studies Institute's Open Access Resources for Teaching the Middle East

The Arab Studies Institute's Open Access Resources for Teaching the Middle East

"As teachers, students, and researchers limit their in-person contact, below are some open access resources in the form of online articles, audio interviews, and video segments to facilitate classroom learning and additional research on the Middle East and North Africa.

Below, we've curated threads on the topics of the Uprisings; the making of modern Iran; gender; political Islam; infrastructure and vulnerability; and environment, climate change, health, and disease." [Posted on Jadaliyya on 3/23/20]

TEACHING THE UPRISINGS
Teachers Teach-In on Current Events in the Arab World: Return to Business As Usual after the Uprisings?
featuring Samia Errazzouki, Sama’a Al-Hamdani, Bassam Haddad, Mouin Rabbani, and Hibba Abugideiri 
Roundtable on Political Islam after the Arab Uprisings
featuring Nathan Brown, Asef Bayet, John Voll, and Jillian Schwedler
TEACHING IRAN
Roundtable on Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 1)
featuring Arash Davari, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Zep Kalb, Arang Keshavarzian, Azam Khatam, Saira Rafiee, and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Roundtable: Backdrop & Reverberations of Soleimani’s Assassination (Part 1: Iran)
by Maryam Alemzadeh, Eric Lob, and Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Roundtable on Iran’s Domestic Politics and Political Economy (Part 2)
featuring Arash Davari, Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Zep Kalb, Arang Keshavarzian, Azam Khatam, Saira Rafiee, and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
TEACHING GENDER
Women & War in Yemen: Actors or Victims?
by Mira Nabulsi for VOMENA Radio
Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism
by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Sarah Ihmoud, and Suhad Dahir-Nashif 
TEACHING POLITICAL ISLAM
Ennahda: A Party in Transition
by Fabio Merone and Francesco Cavatorta
TEACHING INFRASTRUCTURE
AND VULNERABILITY
Vulnerability, Infrastructure, and Displacement: The Role of Public Services in Lebanese Spaces of Migration
by Hanna Baumann and Samar Kanafani

Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 1)
featuring Ziad Abu-Rish, Owain Lawson, Joanne Nucho, Eric Verdeil, and Dana Abi Ghanem
Roundtable on the Past and Present of Electricity in Lebanon (Part 2)
featuring Ziad Abu-Rish, Owain Lawson, Joanne Nucho, Eric Verdeil, and Dana Abi Ghanem
Roundtable: Considering the Past and Future of UNRWA
featuring Karen Koning AbuZayd, Francesca Albanese, Ardi Imseis, Jo Kelcey, Mouin Rabbani, and Terry Rempel
TEACHING ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Free access to online content from some publishers

Due to COVID-19 emergency some publishers are now offering free access to their content. These publishers offer some content for the study of Islam and the Middle East.
AMIR will update this list as new information becomes available.

"Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
[Update 3/19/2020 : Due to unprecedented demand and reported misuse publisher temporarily removed the free access to textbooks. They are  working to address these concerns plan to reinstate free access as soon as possible.


"Project Muse: Free Resources on MUSE During COVID-19"
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/

"Access to the digital Loeb Classical Library will be free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19 until June 30th. From Harvard University Press International @HarvardUPLondon In these uncertain times, sometimes you need to look back at the classics. 
Access to the digital Loeb Classical Library will be free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19 until June 30th.  Librarians: email loebclassics_sales@harvard.edu for access.

Monday, March 9, 2020

Select historical Turkish newspapers collection from Istanbul University

Istanbul University recently began a historical newspaper project in which they digitized newspapers dating from 1928-1942 and made them freely accessible.

"Gazeteden Tarihe Bakış Projesi
İstanbul Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanlığı, Merkez Kütüphane koleksiyonunda yaklaşık 18422 adet cilt gazete yer almaktadır. Gazeteler Osmanlıca, Rumca, Bulgarca, Fransızca, Almanca, İngilizce, Türkçe gibi çeşitli dillerde yayınlanmıştır. Dönemin tarihine ışık tutacak nitelikteki bu değerli gazete arşivinin korunması ve araştırmacıların hizmetine sunulması için “Gazeteden Tarihe Bakış Projesi” gerçekleştirilmiştir. Proje kapsamında, günlük erişilebilir şekilde ve OCR metodu ile 1928-1942 yıllarını kapsayan yaklaşık 688 cilt, 55 başlık ulusal ve yerel gazeteden 581106 sayfa görüntü taranmış ve elektronik ortama aktarılmış durumdadır, çalışma devam etmektedir."


List of available newspapers:

Açık Söz
Akşam
Anadolu
Aydın
Beyoğlu
Bugün (Siyasi, İktisadi, İçtimai, Gündelik Gazete)
Doğu
En Son Havadis
Haber (Akşam Postası)
Hakikat
Hakimiyeti Milliye
Halkın Dili
Halkın Sesi
İkdam (Halk Gazetesi)
İkdam (Cumhuriyet için, Halk için)
İkdam (Sabah Postası)
Kurun
Milliyet
Munakaşa
Son Posta
Son Telgraf
Son Saat
Tan
Tasviri Efkar
Türk Sözü
Türk Dili
Ulus
Vakit
Vatan
Yeni Asır
Yeni Sabah