Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)

Monday, April 25, 2016

Conflict Urbanism Aleppo

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.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Open Access Journal: Roshangar: Roshan Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal

http://www.roshangarumd.com/#!the-journal/jyxq3

"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

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

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.