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achemenet.com
al-Hakawati Arab Cultural Trust
American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
The Institute is located in Iraq but is incorporated in Chicago and has a resident director
Baghdad Museum Project
Behind the wall
Bethlehem bloggers
CDLI Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Presents the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), which makes available online the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from about 3200 B.C. until the end of the third millennium, compiled by a group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science
Center for the Studies of Eurasian Nomads
Central Asian gateway
Central Asian Historical-Cultural Research Center
Central Eurasia Project (Soros)
Includes links to Soros project pages in each Central Asia republic
complete catalog (sylloge) of the glass weights, vessel stamps, and ring weights in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo (Mathaf Bayt al-Kritiliyya)
Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic to the United States of America & Canada
General information on Kyrgyzstan and links to other websites
ETANA electronic tools and ancient Near Eastern archives
A portal to ancient Near Eastern web resources, including archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain
Faharis
family of Sholom Aleichem presents his life and work
Home page for Sholom Aleichem; contains biographical information, links and some digitized texts
Gendernye issledovaniia Tsentral'no-Aziatskaia set
Gertrude Bell
The Robinson Library at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne presents information about the library's Gertrude Bell collection. Bell (1868-1926) was an archaeologist and traveller born in Washington, Durham, England. The collection contains letters, diaries, and photographs
Global gateway
"Library of Congress portal to primary source collections from around the world, plus links to other recommended country-specific websites."
Historians of Islamic art
Historians of Islamic art newsletter
Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
Independent committee headed by Paul A. Volcker of the United States to audit and examine the UN Oil-for-Food Programme and the conduct of UN and Iraqi officials. This Web site contains the reports, press releases, and press conferences
Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
With the aim of acquainting foreign readers with the best of modern Hebrew literature, the Institute commissions translations, acts as literary agent, underwrites translation projects, publishes the journal Modern Hebrew Literature and the annual Bibliography of Modern Hebrew Literature, represents Israeli authors at international book fairs, offers two Annual Translation Prizes, and publishes catalogs. Its website contain a list of close to three hundred Hebrew authors
Internet Islamic history sourcebook
Provides links to online collections of texts on the history of Islam, Islamic civilization, and Islamic countries
Iraqanalysis.org
Islam, Islamic studies, Arabic, religion resources for studying Islam
Islamic coins collection
Islamic manuscripts
This links to one of the main collections of Islamic manuscripts in the world
Jewish virtual library
Kurdistan Regional Government
Lost treasures from Iraq objects from the Iraq Museum /
After the conquest of Baghdad in April 2003, the Iraq Museum, which held an unrivaled collection of Mesopotamian artifacts, was looted. This Web site provides images of objects known to be held by the Iraq Museum in Baghdad or in one of Iraq's provincial museums before the beginning of the war, with the intention of locating and recovering the objects
memory hole reports from the Future of Iraq Project
Mendele forum for Yiddish literature and Yiddish language
Home page for Yiddish language and literature electronic discussion group, with links to numerous Yiddish-interest websites. Includes back issues of The Mendele review: Yiddish literature and language (a companion to Mendele) edited by Leonard Prager
Middle East Information Network news
MIFTAH.org
Mihrab
Museum with no frontiers
National Yiddish Book Center [website]
Website of the National Yiddish Book Center, located in Amherst, Mass. Founded in 1980 by MacArthur Fellow Aaron Lansky, the Center works to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain. To date, the Center has recovered 1.5 million volumes, with hundreds of additional books continuing to arrive each week. In 1998 it launched the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library: a pioneering program to digitize the titles in its collection and make high-quality reprints available on demand. Site includes information about the Center, a calendar of events, an online bookstore and catalog, exhibits, articles about Yiddish and Jewish culture, news, and the Center's magazine The pakn treger
Old world trade routes (OWTRAD) a catalogue of georeferenced caravanserais/khans v.2.0 (Dec 2004)
Oriental Institute Museum
Virtual museum tour. This collection of panoramic, explorable quicktime movies provides dozens of views of the museum's galleries (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, and Persian) and the artifacts therein. There are also some text-based tours
Palestine media center
Papers of Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell
Pars Times
Offers a wide range of links to general news sources such as American, European, and African media as well as to Iranian specific sites. The site is searchable by keyword
Persepolis3D.com
Persiafilm
POxy Oxyrhynchus online
Comprehensive presentation of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project (POxy), a project to publish the Greek papyri from the excavations at Oxyrhynchus, which was a regional capital in Egypt under the Hellenistic and Roman rulers. Includes images of papyrus fragments
Project for the research of Islamist movements
"This site is hard to navigate. However, it has copies, in Arabic, of documents from terrorist groups like al-Qaeda that are very hard to find."
Quran Browser.org
secret CIA history of the Iran Coup, 1953
Site consists of a summary and four appendixes of a 200-page document detailing the CIA history of operation TPAJAX, including American and British roles in the August 1953 coup against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq. Also includes analysis of the material (originally disclosed by James Risen of the New York Times in its editions of April 16, 2000). Provides links to information on the Archive's lawsuit against the CIA to force the declassification of key documents on the Agency's role in the European elections of 1948 and the 1953 coup in Iran, comments by five former CIA directors and others on the Agency's declassification policies, and the complaint filed with U.S. District Court on May 13, 1999
Selections of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman calligraphy
Seljuk Han of Anatolia
Sephardic House: Institute for Researching and Promoting Sephardic History and Culture
Shtetl, Yiddish language and culture
Covers all aspects of the cultural and literary life of Yiddish-speaking Jewry. Links to online catalogs of major Yiddish collections. Yiddish language learning and genealogical resources. Yiddish online, including the mailing list "Mendele," on the radio, and in the periodical press. Maps of communities, music, theatre, and recipes
Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Uysal-Walker Turk Oykuleri Sandg
The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative makes available online all of Warren S. Walker and Ahmet Uysal's transcripts of Turkish epics, folk legends, and local stories. Highlights include versions of the Turkic epics, oral history of Central Asia that survived for the past two millenia. In addition to the transcripts, the site includes a collection of images of modern-day Turkey, audio of indigenous music performances, and many of Uysal and Walker's recordings of epic tales as narrated by Turkish citizens
Williams Afghan media project still image collections


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