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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• Cleveland Council on World Affairs
• Cleveland Ecumenical Institute for Religious Studies
• Cleveland Hillel Foundation
• Islamic Center of Cleveland
• Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
• Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Middle East Studies Center at the Ohio State University

Business & Other Social Sciences

• AME Info (Middle East business news)
• Arab Social Science Research (Arab Institute for Studies and Communication)
• Arab.net (information on leading industries, regulations, companies, banks)
• (FIRST) Facts on international relations and security trends
• ISN: International Relations & Security Network
• Middle East Information Network
• Pars Times: Business & Economy in the Middle East (for researchers, scholars, and investors)

CSU Middle East Studies Department

• About the CSU Middle East Studies Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department of Religious Studies
  • Course Catalog
• International Relations Major
• Modern Languages Department
• New Acquisitions

Country Information & Maps

• African and Middle Eastern Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
• ArchAtlas
• The Gulf/2000 Project : Change, Communication and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf
• Islamic Cities Historic Map Collection: Cairo
• Perry-Casteñeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas) (Middle East maps)
• Virtual Jerusalem Tour (important sites)
• World Factbook (CIA's information on countries of the world, including maps)

Culture

• Aish.com (network of Jewish educational centers)
• Al-Aham Weekly Online
• Arab-Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland (Cleveland Memory Project, CSU)
• ArchNet: Islamic Architecture
• Center for Islam and Science (biographies of scholars, glossary, bibliography on relationship between Islam and science)
• ECAI Iraq
• Islamic and Middle Eastern Music and Dance
• Islamic Art, Music, and Architecture Around the World (University of Georgia)
• Music of the Middle East and North Africa (Ethnomusicology, folk music, and world music, U. of Washington)
• MuslimHeritage.com (Muslim contribution to science, technology, arts, and civilization)
• Jewish Music WebCenter
• The Oriental Institute Museum (University of Chicago)

Grants

• Middle East Institute Internships (Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs)
• Middle East Institute: Leadership Development Program (Washington, DC)
• Middle East Partnership Initiative (U.S. State Department program)

History

• Ancient Near East .net
• Arab Gateway: Arab-Islamic History (introduces non-Arabs to the Arabs and their culture)
• Avalon Project: The Middle East 1916-2001: A Documentary Record
• A Concise History of the Middle East (e-book)
• ECAI Silk Road Atlas
• ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives
• Global Connections: The Middle East (PBS)
• History in the News: The Middle East (SUNY Albany)
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
  
• Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information
• United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (U.N. documents)

Literature

• Afghanistan Digital Library
• Arab World Books (book club & bookstore for Arabic literature, including modern authors)
• Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
• Islamic Philosophy Online (books and articles on various aspects of Islam philosophy)
• Jehat.com (modern Arabic poetry)
• Transliteration Tables for African and Middle Eastern Languages) (Library of Congress & the American Library Association)
• The Undergraduate's Companion to Arab Writers and Their Web Sites

News Sources

• Al-Aham Weekly Online (English weekly version of Egyptian daily newspaper--arts, culture, literature)
• Aljazeera
• BBC Middle East News
• MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute
• UN News Centre: Middle East

Population

• Population Reference Bureau (Middle East)
• Population Resource Center (Executive Summary: The Middle East)

Religion

• Christianity
  • Christianity in the Middle East
  • Christianity in the Middle East (Columbia University)
  • Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC): Christianity
  • Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
  • Research Guide for Christianity
• General
  • Adherents.com (national & world religion statistics)
  • Association of Religion Data Archives
  • Religions of the Middle East
  • Virtual Religion Index
• Islam
  • Holy Qur'an Resources on the Internet
  • Islamic Desk Reference (e-book)
  • The Koran at the Electronic Text Center
  • Oxford Dictionary of Islam (e-book)
  • Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
  • Sunnah and Hadith
• Judaism
  • A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (e-book)
  • Resources for the Academic Study of Judaism
  • Routledge Dictionary of Judaism (e-book)
  • Torah.org

Research Databases

• General:
  • OACIS for the Middle East
  • AP Multimedia Archive
  • ArticleFirst
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Issues & Controversies (Facts on File)
    
• Literature and Culture:
  • Anthropology Plus
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • Gender Studies Database
  • GenderWatch
  • Humanities International Complete
  • MLA International Bibliography
• Politics and International Relations:
  • FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends)
  • New York Times
  • PAIS
  • Worldwide Political Science
• Religion:
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • Religion and Philosophy Collection
  • Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI)
• Social and General Issues:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Historical Abstracts
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• Business:
  • Business Source Complete