Digital Collections at AUB

The “Special Collections” at LAU serves as a repository for collections relating to the Lebanese social, cultural and intellectual life.

The digital library supports research and teaching in the arts, culture, and society of Egypt and the Middle East by providing online access to unique cultural heritage resources. It Includes photographs, maps, oral histories, video recording and much more.

(DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world.

Digital Collections from the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress. Sample collections are: Egypt 2008 Web Archive, Manuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai and Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy.

The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.

Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection was acquired in 2008 from a Lebanese collector, Abdelmassih Abou-Jaoudeh of al-Furat Publishing and is comprised of 1,748 posters and 768 lobby cards.

The Palestine Poster Project Archives (PPPA) collects and archives posters, handbills, other paper ephemera, and also digital image files. The archives includes not only Palestinian posters, but also international posters.

MENAdoc provides Open Access digital documents with regard to the MENA-region and to Islamic studies. It includes digitized and born digital materials.

a research initiative led by Professor Elias Muhanna at Brown University. We host a series of frequent gatherings, workshops, symposia, and other kinds of research projects, all oriented around the digital study of the Islamic world.

AMEEL is a Web-based portal and a digital collection of information for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development, and contemporary face.

Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection

A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.

A system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the Library's digital collections. Include a large collection of Arabic digital books, photo albums and more.

the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has formed partnerships with various cultural, academic, governmental, and corporate organizations for the creation of many significant and compelling digital projects. These projects cover a wide array of cultural and educational themes.

This exhibition was the inventory of Middle Eastern and Islamic language materials compiled recently by Dr Majid Daneshgar, former lecturer at Theology and Religion at the University of Otago, now University of Freiburg, Germany.

One of the New York Public Library Digital Collections

The collection contains book illustrations, stereographs, postcards, photographic cards, and other emphemera related to travel in the Middle East. Currently the collection focuses on Egypt, primarily in the nineteenth century. Most of these materials are part of a collection held by Dr. Paula Sanders, Rice University.

A sampling of images from the photographic archives of the Oriental Institute. The complete archive contains over 100,000 negatives documenting the Institute’s activities from 1892 to the present.

The World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.

This site provides access to over 210,000 digitized or born-digital images in the Koç University collections featuring prints, photographs, slides, maps, newspapers, posters, postcards, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Collection of original paintings that commemorates the memory of the Lebanese emigrants who perished on the doomed liner. This collection is also accessible through ArtStor database. For more information. Please contact the specialcollections@ndu.edu.lb.

This digital collection encompasses all Commission-relevant documents from several archival repositories, which each hold the papers of different members of the King-Crane Commission.

These Virtual Exhibitions highlight the history and cultural legacy of the great Islamic dynasties that ruled the countries surrounding the Mediterranean basin, from the Umayyads to the Ottomans.

The collection was acquired by Prof. Aziz Suriyal Atiya, founder of the Middle East Center and the Middle East Library. It contains 770 Arabic papyrus documents, 1300 Arabic paper documents, and several pieces on parchment. A large number of pieces date to the period between 700 and 850 CE.

A collection of Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and other Islamic manuscripts found in Princeton University Library.

The Akkasah photographic archive is drawn from around the Middle East and North Africa. The historical collections range from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth. They cover a variety of themes and topics, from early images of the Holy Lands and from the Ottoman Empire, to images from family albums, institutional archives and the history of Egyptian cinema.

An online archive that has been created to showcase historical and cultural material that tells the story of the rich, intriguing and complex history of the Arabian Gulf. It offers digital material that spans two centuries, documenting events and personalities that have shaped and defined the region.

The Moroccan Digital Library / المكتبة الوطنية للمملكة المغربية , created by the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc, includes books, journals, photos, postcards, manuscripts, audios and more.