Toolbox

Tools for Philologists and Researchers on the Middle East.

Catalogues

• Dandelon (search engine for scientfiic resources) [Link]
• DigiBib [Link]
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog – KVK [Link]
• Library of Congress [Link]
• WorldCat [Link]

Media Archives

• Arab Image Foundation [Link]
• Middle East Photograph Archive at University of Chicago [Link]
• MOT Photobase, Lebanon [Link]
• Mirror of Arab Press [Link]

Text Archives

• Arab Encyclopedia – الموسوعة العربية [Link]
• Directory of Open Access Journals [Link]
• Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek [Link]
• Find Articles [Link]
• Journal Seek – A Searchable Database of Online Scholarly Journals [Link]
• Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum [Link]
• Open Source Books [Link]
• Open Quran [Link]
• Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) [Link]

Online-Translation

• Arabic-German: Arabsun [Link]
• Arabic-German: Look up Arabic-German [Link]
• Arabic Etymology: A. E. D. – Arabic Etymological Dictionary [Link]
• Arabic-English: Look up Arabic-English [Link]

• Persian-English: Look up Persian-English [Link]
• English-Persian: Look up English-Persian [Link]

• Turkish-German: Almanca Türkçe Sözlük [Link]
• Turkish-German: Look up Türkisch-Deutsch [Link]

• Greek-English: Kypros (incl. Ancient Greek) [Link]
• Greek-English: in.gr [Link]
• Greek–English: Pathfinder [Link]
• Greek-English: Look up Greek-English [Link]

• Multilingual (European languages): Europa.eu [Link]
• Greek-Russian, Greek-Arab, Greek-Turkish dictionaries: http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/gr/projects/lex.htm
• Latin expressions and law: http://www.lawnet.gr/lexiko.asp

• Hebrew-English: Milon / מילון עברי-אנגלי-עברי חופשי / רב–מילים
• Hebrew-English: Look up Hebrew-English [Link]
• Hebrew-Hebrew: מאגר המונחים
• Hebrew–Arabic: מילווֹן ערבי-עברי / قاموس عربي-عبري

• European Languages: EUdict: European Dictionary [Link]
• The Phrase Finder [Link]

Fonts for Arabic and Transliteration

• Cardo
• Gentium. Transliterationsfonts für Macintosh (auch Classic), Windows und Linux.
• Linux Libertine: Best Unicode font, contains transliteration glyphs, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew and is apt for long texts. Get more information here. This font is highly recommended! [Link]
• Persian Font. Arabic-Persian Font for Macintosh [Link]
• TITUS Cyberbit Basic. Very big Font, for Macintosh and Windows.
• XW Zar: TrueType-Font for Arabic (incl. Persian, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Usbek, Kurdish, Turkish). OS must be AAT savvy (therefore incompatible with Windows).

Software

• Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing.

Resources

• H-Net: Network for scholarly communication in den humanities, located at the University of Michigan (English)
• H-Soz-u-Kult: Communication and scholarly information for the humanities
• MEMRI
• MideastWire.com

Institutions

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina