Monday, February 25, 2019

Arabic Collections Online المجموعات العربية على الانترنت

http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/

UPDATE 2/25/19 : More than 10,000 books now available on Arabic Collections Online,
[Columbia 3411, American University of Beirut 2339, Princeton University Libraries 1354, NYU 1834, The American University in Cairo 361, Cornell 742]

[First posted in AMIR on October 24, 2014, updated March 17 , 2015, August 19, 2015]

UPDATE 8/19/15 : ACO has published new items.
It now has 1009 items [ 407 NYU, 402 Columbia, 200 Cornell.]

UPDATE 3/17/15: ACO published 202 items from the collection of Columbia University Libraries



Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Open Access Newspaper Archive: الاهرام = al-Ahram

https://dds.crl.edu/crldelivery/25127
Title: al-Ahrām=الاهرام
Published:  al-Qāhirah : al-Ahrām
Frequency:   Daily
Print began in 1876
Digital issues available: May-Dec 1890; 1892; 1895; July 1896-Jun 1900; Jan 1907-Dec 1908; Jan 1912-Dec 1913; 1943-1945; Oct-Dec 1970; scattered issues wanting.

Access to content published after 1923 is restricted.


[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]


 Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Newspaper Archive: فتاة بوسطن = Fatat Boston [Dec 28, 1917-May 8, 1919]

https://dds.crl.edu/crldelivery/23723
Title: Fatat Boston.
Place of publication: Boston
Published by : W.E. Shakir
Dates of publication: 1914-1922

Frequency: Weekly
Language: Arabic

Notes: "Syrian semi-weekly newspaper."

Digital issues available: Dec 28, 1917-May 8, 1919


[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]

Open Access Newspaper Archive: البيان = al-Bayān = The explanation [1911-1938]

http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2877854~S1

Title :   البيان = al-Bayān = The explanation
Published :  Niyūyūrk : Sulaymān Baddūr, 1911-
Frequency    Three times a week
Note: Each issue includes an index

Digital issues available : Jan 24, 1911-Jan 22 1916; Jan 25, 1917-Jul 31, 1926; Jan 25-Dec 31, 1938

[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Open Access Newspaper Archive: al-Hudá = الهدى = Al-Hoda [1903-1904; Jan-Jun 1908]


http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2847182~S35


Title :    al-Hudá  [1903-1904; Jan-Jun 1908]
Other titles: Hoda = Guidance =  Jarīdat al-Hudá = Hudá al-jadīdah = New Al-Hoda.
Published in: New York, N.Y.
Began Feb. 22, 1898


Issues for <Sept. 17, 1971-Feb. 22, 1972> have also romanized title:Al-Hoda.
Issues for <Feb. 22, 1972-> have also Arabic title: Jarīdat al-Hudá (al-jadīdah)
Issues for <Aug. 31, 1984-Sept. 14, 1984> have also Arabic title: Hudá al-jadīdah.
Issues for <Aug. 31, 1984-Sept. 14, 1984> have also title: New Al-Hoda.

[Made available by the Center for Research Libraries]

See also: الهدى = al-Hoda = al-Hudá = Jarīdat al-Hudá [1898-1941] from Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies

Omar Ibn Said Collection

https://www.loc.gov/collections/omar-ibn-said-collection/about-this-collection/

Omar Ibn Said Collection - acquired and digitized by the Library of Congress

 "The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave in America, which is the centerpiece of this unique collection of texts. Some of the manuscripts in this collection include texts in Arabic by another West African slave in Panama, and others from individuals located in West Africa."