Open Access Journal: Al-Nashra

Al-Nashra

 

Al-Nashra is an Arabic-language quarterly publication produced by the Arabic department of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman. Articles published in Al-Nashra focus on global cultural and religious diversity and shared human values. 

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Open Access Manuscripts Library: Oriental Manuscript Resource (OMAR)

OMAR was built at the University of Freiburg (Germany), in cooperation with the Center of Informatics of the University of Tübingen (Germany).
The databank contains images of approx. 2.500 Arabic manuscripts (in full text, 134.000 images) from Mauritania together with the corresponding bibliographical metadata. The scans were taken from microfilms, stored at the University of Freiburg, whose originals are preserved at the IMRS (Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique) in Nouakchott (Mauritania).
The microfilms where made by Rainer Oßwald, Ulrich Rebstock and Tobias Mayer during several research trips in Mauritania between 1979 and 1997.

A detailed description of these undertakings can be found in
Ulrich Rebstock: Maurische Literaturgeschichte (= MLG), vol. I-III, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2001, vol. I: Einleitung.
Maurische Literaturgeschichte: contents and introduction (in German, as PDF-File)
The databank was realized with the financial support of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the German Research Association (DFG).

Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

Open Access Report: Literary Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010

Translation from Arabic into English in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1990 – 2010

Literary Translation from Hebrew and Turkish in the UK and Ireland [Forthcoming]

"A report prepared by Alexandra Büchler and Alice Guthrie with research assistants Barbora Černá and Michal Karas - September 2011
Making Literature Travel series of reports on literary exchange, translation and publishing
Series editor: Alexandra Büchler
The report was prepared as part of the Euro-Mediterranean Translation Programme, a co-operation between the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, Literature Across Frontiers and Transeuropéenes, and with support from the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Literature Across Frontiers, Mercator Institute for Media, Languages and Culture, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK "

Open Access Journal: Status of Human Rights in Palestine - Annual Report

The status of human rights in Palestine : annual report
Author: Hayʼah al-Mustaqillah li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān (West Bank)
Publisher: Ramallah : Independent Commission for Human Rights,
Date: 2008-
Also issued in Arabic as:
Waḍʻ ḥuqūq al-insān fī manāṭiq al-Sulṭah al-Waṭanīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah =
وضع حقوق الإنسان في مناطق السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية - التقرير السنوي

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Open Access Manuscripts Collection - University of Melbourne - Middle Eastern Manuscripts

93 manuscripts are available online from the collection described below:

"The core of the Middle Eastern Studies Collection was given to the University of Melbourne Library in 1972 by the then Department of Middle Eastern Studies. The collection consisted chiefly of microfilms, but included more than 100 original manuscripts housed from that time onwards in the Special Collections. Over time this has grown to 183 manuscripts, many of which are beautiful works of art with interesting calligraphy and decoration.
The manuscripts are written mostly in Persian and Arabic, with a few in Urdu, Syriac Turkish and other languages. Most manuscripts in the collection were written in the nineteenth century, but some may date back to the fifteenth century. There are a number of Qurans, but the collection is not exclusively Islamic: it also includes a Maronite Christian prayerbook in Arabic and a Syriac Christian commentary on the Gospels. There are also grammars, dictionaries and a few fictional and poetic works."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

Open Access Journal: Shahadat

"Shahadat is a quarterly online series designed to provide a platform for experimentation and promotion of short form writing on the web. Shahadat features stories, vignettes, reflections, and chronicles written by young or underexposed writers from the Middle East and North Africa on ArteEast Online in translation and the original language of Arabic, Farsi or Turkish."

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Pitt Rivers Museum: Sir Wilfred Thesiger Collection

Pitt Rivers Museum Prints

The Pitt Rivers Museum is the University of Oxford's museum of anthropology and world archaeology. Established in 1884, it is one of Europe's most important collections of ethnography, including one of the most significant collections of ethnographic photography. This website has been designed to give more people access to, and enjoyment of, images from the Museum's rich collections. More images will be added in due course, but we also welcome suggestions on what collections you would like to be made available.

Photographs by Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) 1330 images in total