The BHCC Library Staff has identified some useful links to help guide your personal discovery of the Middle East.
Many may disagree about which countries define the Middle East, but generally speaking the area covers about 3,743,000 square miles, with a population of 250 Million. It includes part of northern Africa, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe and is considered to be the birthplace of thee major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Listed below are some links to help increase your awareness and knowledge of the Middle East.
- Electronic Middle East
- Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
- Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
- Arab Women Solidarity Association
- British Society of Middle East Studies (BRISMES)
- Orientation - Middle East
- ArabNet
- Arab Film Distribution
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
- Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP)
- Trans-Arab Reseach Institute
- MIT Arab Students Organization
- Middle East Peace Process
- The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Middle East
- Middle East Studies Resources
- Encyclopedia of the Orient
- Urban in the Regions Middle East & North Africa
- Middle East Times
- Middle East Internet Source
- Middle East Studies
- Saudi Arabian Oil Company Company - Publications
UNIVERSITY RELATED MIDDLE EAST OUTREACH PROGRAMS
- Columbia University Middle Eastern Institute
- Georgetown University Center for Contemporarary Arab Studies
- Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at - New York University
- Ohio State University Middle East Studies Center
- Princeton University Program in Near Eastern Studies
- SERMEISS (Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar
- University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- University of California at Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies - UCLA
- University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
- University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center
- University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Utah Middle East Outreach Program
RECENT LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Before their diaspora: a photographic history of the Palestinians, 1876-1948
Bitter harvest: a modern history of Palestine
Folk traditions of the Arab world
From haven to conquest: readings in Zionism and the Palestinian problem until 1948
Gertrude Bell: the Arabian diaries, 1913-1914
The great immigration: Russian Jews in Israel
Israel: a colonial-settler state?
The Israeli-Syrian peace talks
The making of the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1947-1951
O, Jerusalem!: the contested future of the Jewish covenant
Original sins: reflections on the history of Zionism and Israel
Peace for Palestine (electronic book)
Ploughing sand: British rule in Palestine, 1917-1948
Rubber bullets: power and conscience in modern Israel
Understanding the contemporary Middle East
Zealots for Zion: inside Israel's West Bank settlememt movement