Academic/Research
Arab Social Science Research:
Social Science Virtual Library for Middle East Studies:
A valuable new colletion on on-line research resources can be found at
the home page of
Arab Social Science Research, and its
virtual library at either:
http://www.assr.org/vlibrary/source.html or
http://www.assr.org/vlibrary/topics.html.
It is indexed by source such
as governments, media, NGOs, and lots of other sources of interest to
social scientists, with subheadings usually arranged by country. I
think it is the most comprehensive set of links conveniently available
for research over the net of relevance to the various social science
disciplines. The virtual library also has a growing index by subject
matter, such as government, politics, economics, and various regional
issues.
Arabic Teacher's Association
Comprehensive resource for Arabic studies. Includes information
about summer programs in the US and abroad.
Arabic Program at Penn
Gulf/2000 Project of Columbia University
The Gulf/2000 Project of Columbia University announces a new
public web site devoted to the countries and issues of the Persian
Gulf. This is the most comprehensive collection of news,
background and research data on the Persian Gulf available
anywhere on the web. The selection of resources is based on our
six years of experience following developments in the Gulf.
Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin
Univ. of Texas
Middle East Network Information Center
Especially good for maps.
Al-Mashriq
Very strong on sites related to Lebanon
The Free Arab Voice
Information on Arab civilization, language, science, religion and more.
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Art
Islamic Art and Calligraphy
A wealth of Islamic calligraphy, featuring the seven different
calligraphic styles, many full size gifs, and general information
about Islamic calligraphy.
Arab Art Exchange
The site for contemporary Arab art on the web.
Announcing two new
virtual exhibitions: Zaha Hadid: From Art to Architecture and
Ahmad Moualla: An Homage to Saad-Allah Wannous.
You can also view previous exhibitions including Mona Hatoum and Dia
Azzawi, in addition to art reviews, links to other Arab art sites and the
collection portfolios.
Al Mashriq - Middle East - Music
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Audio/Video On-line
Students might be interested in the following Arabic daily news programs
available on the Web as Real Audio files. With a reasonably fast computer,
a good modem, a sound card, Real Audio installed (available free from
RealNetworks),
and an Internet connection, you can listen to them right on your
computer.
Radio Canada International: Arabic
Half-hour current-events program with about 10-15 minutes devoted to
international news, and the rest about Canada.
Radio Tunis
Evening news in Arabic: a quarter-hour program with a mix of
international and Tunisian news.
On-Line Arabic TV & Radio:
www.oman-tv.gov.om/
You can watch live Arabic TV on the internet from
Oman. You can also listen to Oman Arabic radio.
Bahrain: Realvideo Television
Arabic BBC on the Net
The BBC has a real-time *.RAM feed from its Middle East transmitter:
The Arab Corner: Arab TV & Radio
Personal web page that has many links to Arabic TV & Radio
Stations. Some of them broadcast live via video/audio streaming (you can
view it using Real Audio/Video Player). It Also has links to
daily/weekly/monthly arabic newspapers from all over the world.
Ana TV
Oman TV
Tunisian TV
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Books
Islamic Bookstore.com:
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Films
Middle Eastern Films
Arabic Cinema: August Light
Productions
The Arab Film Festival
The Arab Film Festival-San Francisco has just released the schedule of
films to be shown during the last two weekends of June.
The schedule can be found at the above link.
Watch for film synopses to be added soon!!
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Learning Resources
Arab.Net
Online resource for the Arab world in the Middle
East and North Africa. Over 1770 pages online.
Let's Learn
Arabic
Colloquial dialect lessons available in RealAudio
format. From Allen and Abercrombie.
I-Cias
A well designed site that contains four main
components: 4 sites there: one to teach arabic -- Babel, the
Encyclopedia of the Orient, Miftah Shamali,
and Suuq (a bulletin board).
Islamicity
Learn about Islam at Islamicity.
Yahoo!
Yahoo has a vast collection of resources for Arab
Culture and
Language
, as well as
Islam.
International Language Institute, Cairo, Egypt: Arabic Courses
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Local
Stanford Arabic-Related Links
www.arabee.com
This new web site is dedicated to the Arab American community
in the Bay Area. It has a good general info, Arabic publication,
business yellow pages, Arabic chat, event calendar, etc.
Muslim Community of San Francisco Bay Area
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Miscellaneous Information
Islamic.Finder by Dar Assirat
We are pleased to inform you of the IslamicFinder. With the
IslamicFinder you can enter the zip-code of your desination and get the
following:
- Local Masjids in that area
- Local Islamic Organizations
- Local Islamic related businesses
- Distance
- Local Prayer times
- Local Weather
- Traveling Directions and maps
Food:
http://www.twdg.com/cooking/
Visit Nadia's Middle Eastern Cooking Site.
It is highly recomended to those of you
who are not fimiliar with one of the most
delicious foods in the world.
If you have enjoyed it tell your friends,
if not tell Nadia !!
Middle-Eastern Links Galore:
www.1001sites.com
Arab Countries' WWW
sites
Explore the Middle East through
Excite City.Net Travel
The Lebanese-American Association has recently lunched
a web site at:
www.laa.org
The Fertile Crescent Home Page
Guardian's Egypt
Dating Service:
www.IbnBatuta.com
The goal of this site is to
provide worldwide dating service to
Arab Americans, English speaking
Arabs and all their friends.
Fairuz web site
http://www.fairouz.com
Fairouz and Rahbani Brothers Tribute.
Latest News.
Songs in Real Audio format, to listen to and to download, updated
weekly.
Songs in Midi format. (coming soon)
Discography. (coming soon)
Filmography.
Album Reviews (updated biweekly).
Photo Gallery.
Song Lyrics (updated monthly).
Banners.
Message Boards.
Articles.
Infomation Center 'Last Days Of Scorates'.
Fairouz related Links.
Downloads including 'Windows 95 Desktop theme'. (coming soon)
Weekly Poll.
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Newspapers and Magazines
Egypt's Ahram newspaper in Arabic
Dar Al-Tahrir Printing & Publishing
Al-Quds: Arabic Newspaper
El-Shaab: Egyptian newspaper in Arabic.
AJR (American Journal Review)
Huge selection of links to newspapers and magazines from
around the world.
The News Circle Arab-American Affairs magazine
The News Circle /Arab-American Affairs magazine, publishers
of the Arab-American Almanac series, and producers of
"Arabesco-TV" covering Arab culture, art, music, and major
issues related to the Arab-American community, and the Arab world.
The Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
About EJMES
The Middle East Times
A weekly English newspaper based in Cairo.
New Arab-American Magazine:
Alive (post)
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
http://www.uib.no/jais
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais
BBC:
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Palestinian Information
The West Bank and Gaza Strip Private Economy: Conditions and Prospects
The UNSCO website is a project of the
Palestinian Development InfoNet
and the Interuniversity Consortium for Arab Studies (Montreal).
Palestine Information
Center
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Ramadan
www.Ramadhan.Org
- Independent reporting of the sighting of the moon for the
start of Ramadhan and for 'Eid (non-Government controlled) in
accordance to the hadith of the Prophet (saw)
"Fast when you see the moon..." and
"break your fast when you see the moon..."
- Daily Internet audio recordings on topical
Islamic subjects
- Daily postings of Islamic cultural leaflets, tafseer of the
Qur'an and hadith analysis
- Daily news from around the world of interest to Muslims
- Recorded khutbah from Masjid al-Aqsa in al-Quds
- News of the moon's sighting can be e-mailed to you directly,
as well as any of the material that appears on the website.
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Software
Amr's Arabic Archive
Download the Quran
A great version of the Quran that is in Arabic with two
English interpretations in English can be downloaded. It is a Word
document so you need MS Word 5.0 or better. It works great on a Mac.
It was done by THE ISLAMIC COMPUTING CENTRE in London and is fully
searchable by keyword, verse number, etc. With text-to-speach, you can
even have the english part recited to you. You can find it at
ftp://leb.net/pub/reader/mac/quran.sea.hqx.
Software for
Arabic Macintosh
http://www.arabiaware.com
Arabic Software. Company based in the Netherlands.
NYU ACF Multilingual Web
The Multilingual Web site was
developed by members of the Instructional Technology group in the
Innovation Center at Academic Computing Facility (ACF) at NYU. It was
begun in 1996 in an effort to provide a
resource for the NYU community in such areas as multilingual computing
resources and information and has expanded to become a notable
Internet resource.
Focusing on the seventeen languages taught at NYU including Arabic, the
Website has links to such areas as technical issues in computing with
non-Roman character sets, language learning software, news and media links
in the native language, and more.
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Software: Learning Arabic
The Arabic Tutor and Arabic CyberClassRoom
The Arabic Tutor is a complete Arabic language
learning software for the Windows operating system
with many multimedia capabilities. The Arabic
CyberClassRoom is an extenson of this software on
the web.
My Arabic Teacher:
www.arabicteacher.com
The first comprehensive multimedia Arabic
language software with over 600 hours of audio-visual home-study classes for
the whole family to be released for the summer of 1998. The contents of this
page are only a small bit of what the program can offer to students as well as
for the language schools as an advanced tool for language learning.
This new teaching method is registered to PearlLink Software Int'l, Inc.
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