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Any opinions expressed are those of the authors and in no way reflect the views of the maintainer of the server. Its purpose is to gather information that reflects the culture and ways of life of Lebanon and the Levant and was started as guide and entry point to the life and history of the region for the benefit of expatriates of the Levant.</p> <p>Al-Mashriq is a repository for cultural multimedia information from the Levant (Al-Mashriq) in general and Lebanon in particular. As of October 2010 it contains over 245000 documents and is still growing. It was started as an initiative by Berthe Choueiry (now associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and myself in 1993 and was for a while an ftp-server at the Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne. It was moved in 1994 to become a World-Wide Web server at the Østfold University College, Halden (Norway) where it now resides and is maintained by myself and an occasional team of students.</p> <p>Contributions that fall within the scope of the server are received with gratitude. Material must contain correct bibliographic references to source and must not be in violation of copyright. The editors of Al-Mashriq retain the sole right to accept or refuse material.</p> <a href="http://almashriq.hiof.no/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="https://alraqmiyyat.github.io/althurayya/">Al-Ṯurayyā Gazetteer: Gazetteer of the Classical Islamic World</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Interactive Map</span> <p>An interactive map of the classical Islamic world, with several thousand locations and routes charted.</p> <a href="https://alraqmiyyat.github.io/althurayya/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="https://www.aarweb.org/">American Academy of Religion (AAR)</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Academic Organization</span> <p>The American Academy of Religion’s mission is to promote such reflection through excellence in scholarship and teaching in the field of religion. 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All scholars with an academic interest in Near Eastern and Asian Studies are welcome to become members.</p> <a href="https://www.americanorientalsociety.org/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://guides.library.ucla.edu/ancient-near-east">Ancient Near East and Egypt Library Guides</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Guide</span> <p>This guide serves as a portal for resources relating to the ancient Near East and Egypt. Intended as a “one-stop shopping” site, this guide contains links to hundreds of e-resources, including reference sources like online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and bibliographies; databases and indexes; e-book and journal collections; and online archives, image repositories, and maps.</p> <a href="http://guides.library.ucla.edu/ancient-near-east" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://guides.library.ucla.edu/mideast">Arabic and Islamic Studies Library Guides</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Guide</span> <p>This guide serves as a portal for resources for Middle Eastern, Armenian and Central Asian Studies. 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It contains links to a wide variety of e-resources, including reference sources like online encyclopedias and bibliographies; databases and indexes; e-book and journal collections; and news, cultural, and governmental sites.</p> <a href="http://guides.library.ucla.edu/mideast" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.bjhc.org.il/">Babylonian (Iraqi) Jewry Heritage Center</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Hebrew and Jewish Resource Page</span> <span class="program-email"><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:babylon@bjhc.org.il">babylon@bjhc.org.il</a> </span> <span class="program-phone"><strong>Phone:</strong> 03-5339278</span> <p class="font_8">The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center was established in 1973 to preserve the history of the Jewish community in Iraq and to ensure that it remains part of the future narrative of the Jewish nation. To this end, the Center fosters research, preservation and publication of the culture and folklore of Iraqi Jewry.</p> <a href="http://www.bjhc.org.il/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.1718.ucla.edu/">Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Research Center</span> <span class="program-email"><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu">c1718cs@humnet.ucla.edu</a> </span> <span class="program-phone"><strong>Phone:</strong> 310-206-8552</span> <p>The Center, which administers the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in West Adams, supports research related to the seventeenth and long-eighteenth centuries as well as Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle aesthetics movement. 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CDH is a physical space for exploration and experimentation as well as a virtual space for networking and sharing. It is composed of a community of scholars, students, and practitioners who come together to design, create, experiment, innovate, and disseminate new knowledge in the digital age.</p> <a href="http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.cjs.ucla.edu/">Center for Jewish Studies</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Research Center</span> <span class="program-email"><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:cjs@humnet.ucla.edu">cjs@humnet.ucla.edu</a> </span> <span class="program-phone"><strong>Phone:</strong> 310-825-5387</span> <p>The UCLA Alan D. 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In addition to housing an undergraduate major, the Center sponsors seminars, lectures, and conferences as well as films and artistic performances that explore the role of religious ideas, practices and institutions within human societies, both historical and contemporary and throughout the regions of the world.</p> <a href="http://www.religion.ucla.edu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://cdli.ucla.edu/">Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Digital Project</span> <p>The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) is an international digital library project aimed at putting text and images of an estimated 500,000 recovered cuneiform tablets created from between roughly 3350 BC and the end of the pre-Christian era online.</p> <a href="http://cdli.ucla.edu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://ejtaal.net/aa/">Ejtaal Arabic Almanac</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Digital Library</span> <p>Ejtaal’s Arabic Almanac features digitized versions of over twenty dictionaries of the Arabic language, including the classical Arabic dictionaries of Ibn Manzur’s <em>Lisan al-‘Arab </em>and the dictionaries of Lane, Kazimirski, and Hava. It can be searched by triconsonantal root.</p> <a href="http://ejtaal.net/aa/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2">Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd. Ed.</a></h3> <p>The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live. Either a subscription or an affiliation with UCLA or another participating university is required.</p> <a href="http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://uee.ucla.edu/">Encyclopedia of Egyptology</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Digital Project</span> <p>Free online Egyptology page which has a map-search functionality, alphabetical and subject browsing, in-text links, explanations of terminology for non-professionals, an image archive, and Virtual Reality reconstructions. In addition, a Data-Access Level is under development, which links articles with the results of original research.</p> <a href="http://uee.ucla.edu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/">Forum for Central Asian Studies (Harvard)</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Turkish Resource Page</span> <span class="program-email"><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu">centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu</a> </span> <span class="program-phone"><strong>Phone:</strong> 617-496-2643</span> <p>What is Central Eurasian Studies World Wide?</p> <p>A Road Map for Central Eurasian Studies throughout the World: Central Eurasian Studies World Wide» gives a broad perspective on what is being done in all disciplines and all countries. A Wealth of Information: Behind the “Front Page” of Central Eurasian Studies World Wide, there are many hundreds of pages of information — now, about 7MB of data and steadily growing accessible to anyone anywhere. A Network of Related Information Resources: Central Eurasian Studies World Wide is not only a website, but an integrated network of information gathering and distributing functions, including list servers such as the Central-Eurasia-L Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies, and the reference publications such as the Guide to Scholarly Resources for the study of Central Asia.</p> <a href="http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/">Jewishnet</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Hebrew and Jewish Resource Page</span> <span class="program-email"><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:judaica.europeana@googlemail.com">judaica.europeana@googlemail.com</a> </span> <p><strong>Judaica Europeana</strong> is a network of archives, libraries and museums working together to integrate access to the most important collections of European Jewish heritage and make them discoverable to more people.</p> <a href="http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html">Judaism and Jewish Resources</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Hebrew and Jewish Resources </span> <p>The Internet is rich with Jewish resources. This page shows you the gates to these resources, so that you may go in and explore. This web page is twenty years old. Here’s what it looked like on 29 November, 1993. See more about my page for historical info. The latest version of this page may be found at: http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html. </p> <a href="http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://mesana.org/">Middle East Studies Association (MESA)</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Academic Organization</span> <p>The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. <span class="bodytext">MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. </span></p> <a href="http://mesana.org/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780195390155">Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Bibliography List</span> <p>A collection of over 200 bibliographies spanning a wide variety of categories relevant to the study of Islam.</p> <a href="http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780195390155" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.parstimes.com/index.html">Pars Time</a></h3> <p>A non-profit, non-partisan and totally independent website. It’s mainly targeted for researchers, scholars and investors. The site aims at providing comprehensive information pertaining to Iran and the Middle East.</p> <a href="http://www.parstimes.com/index.html" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/about">Program on Central Asia</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Academic Program</span> <p>The UCLA Program on Central Asia is led by the Asia Pacific Center and directed by Professor Domenico Ingenito (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures). The program promotes the interdisciplinary and interregional study of Central Asia, serving as an ‘intellectual crossroads’ at which scholars working on India, China, the Middle East and Europe can exchange ideas with visiting specialists on Central Asia itself to advance scholarship and understanding of the region.</p> <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/about" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://nelc.ucla.edu/resource/">Sasanian Epigraphic Collection</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Collection</span> <p>The Sasanian Epigraphic Collection represents the only complete holding of Sasanian royal and private inscriptions dating back to the third and fourth century C.E. The Silicone imprints, supplemented by digitized photographs made from the inscriptions <em>in situ</em>, are being currently used towards the preparation of a new comprehensive critical edition of the Sasanian epigraphic corpus. More importantly, they will provide a unique tool for our qualified under- and graduate students to deepen their philological training by gaining first hand knowledge of paleography.</p> <a href="http://nelc.ucla.edu/resource/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/shariasource/">SHARIAsource at Harvard Law School</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Resource Page</span> <p>SHARIAsource is a flagship research venture of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Its continuing mission is to organize the world’s information on Islamic law in a way that is accessible and useful.</p> <a href="http://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/shariasource/" class="btn">Visit Website <span class="hidden"> for </span></a> </li> <li class="program"> <h3><a href="http://turkishstudies.org/about/index.shtml">The Institute of Turkish Studies. Washington, D.C.</a></h3> <span class="program-type">Turkish Resource Page</span> <span class="program-phone"><strong>Phone:</strong> (202) 687-0292 </span> <p>Founded and incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1982, the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) is the only non-profit, private educational foundation in the United States exclusively dedicated to the support and development of Turkish Studies in American higher education. The Institute is an independent, tax exempt organization and does not seek to influence legislation nor advocate particular policies or agendas. 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