Middle East Studies

Places, Platforms, Periodicals

Last update: June 10, 2011

Institutions in the U.S.

  • Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) [Link]
  • Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis (US) [Link]
  • Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) – The MacMillan Center, Yale [Link]
  • Middle East Institute [Link]
  • Middle East Studies Association (MESA) [Link]
  • Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University [Link]

Institutions in the Middle East

  • American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) [Link]
  • American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) [Link]
  • American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman [Link]
  • Beirut Center for Research & Information مركز بيروت للابحاث والمعلومات [Link]
  • Centre for the Advanced study of the Arab World (CASAW) [Link]
  • Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes (CEDRAC), Beyrout [Link]
  • Dt. Orient-Institut, Beirut [Link]
  • Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights المركز المصري لحقوق المرأة , Cairo [Link]
  • GLORIA Center – Global Research in International Affairs, Herzliya [Link]

Institutions in Mainland Europe and Britain

  • Asien-Afrika-Institut: vorderer Orient, Hamburg [Link]
  • Association for Israel Studies [Link]
  • British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) [Link]
  • Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Sudies (CEMMIS/ University of Peloponnese) [Link]
  • Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums [Link]
  • Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien, Marburg [Link]
  • European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) [Link]
  • Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Münster [Link]
  • Institut für Orientwissenschaft, Leipzig [Link]
  • Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Abteilung für Islamwissenschaft, Bonn [Link]
  • Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Jena [Link]
  • International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden (NL) [Link]
  • Islamwissenschaft und Iranistik, Heidelberg [Link]
  • Lehrstuhl für Orientalische Philologie, Erlangen-Nürnberg [Link]
  • Lehrstuhl für Westasiatische Geschichte, Erfurt [Link]
  • Orientalisches Seminar, Frankfurt/Main [Link]
  • Orientalisches Seminar, Köln [Link]
  • Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Halle-Wittenberg [Link]
  • Professur für Gegenwartsbezogene Orientforschung, Erlangen [Link]
  • Seminar für Arabistik / Islamwissenschaften, Göttingen [Link]
  • Seminar für Christlichen Orient und Byzanz, Halle-Wittenberg [Link]
  • Seminar für Orientalistik, Kiel [Link]
  • Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaften, Bochum [Link]
  • Seminar für Orientkunde, Mainz [Link]
  • UEAI – Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants [Link]
  • Zentrum Moderner Orient [Link]

Projects

  • Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Virtual Jaspers Centre, University of Heidelberg [Link]
  • Copenhagen University Middle East and Islam Network (CUMin) [Link]
  • Forschungsstelle Christlicher Orient / Research Center for Oriental Christianity at KU Eichstätt [Link]

Journals

  • Arabies Trends, International Magazine on Arab Affairs [Link]
  • Arab Studies Journal [Link]
  • Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East [Link]
  • Die Welt des Islam
  • Dimuqratiyya – الديموقراطية , Cairo [Link]
  • Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies [Link]
  • Hebraic Political Studies, Shalem Center [Link]
  • International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) [Link]
  • Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam
  • Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies [Link]
  • Journal of Middle East Studies
  • Middle East Institute/Journal [Link]
  • Middle East Policy [Link]
  • Middle East Report [Link]
  • Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) [Link]
  • Middleastern Studies
  • The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies [Link]
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [Link]
  • Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgendlandes
  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
  • ZDMG

Resources I: General

  • Arab Social Science Resources [Link]
  • Arabic-Info: A Global Network for Arab Studies Worldwide [Link]
  • Documentation Centre Oriental Christians in the Near East and India (DOCNOI) [Link]
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica [Link]
  • EURISLAM bibliographical database, takes into account all publications concerning the current situation, in contemporary Europe in a wide sense, of Islam as a religion (beliefs and religious practices, religious sensibilities) and of Muslims as a diversified group of population (Muslim immigration, institutions, public regulation). The database contains press articles, books, book sections, study or investigation reports, theses, grey literature. [Link]
  • Middle Eastern Studies Resources at Bobst Library [Link]
  • Middle East Network Information Center, University of Texas Austin [Link]

Resources II: Texts

  • Asnad.org – Digital Persian Archive. An Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Centur. University of Marburg. [Link]
  • Digitalisate des Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums (Itineraria, Karten etc.) [Link]
  • The Iliad of Homer in Arabic, translated by Sulayman al-Bustani (p. 1904), free Download (PDF) [Link]
  • M. J. Kister: Online Articles & Books (Hebrew University) [Link]
  • Meshkat al-Islamiyya Library (Arabic) [Link]
  • Mostafa Online Library (Arabic) [Link]
  • Oriental Manuscript Resource (OMAR). 2,500 manuscripts from Mauretania. University of Freiburg. [Link]
  • Quran Explorer (excellent online tool, Arabic + translation) [Link]
  • Yasoob al-Din Library (Arabic) [Link]

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