Additional WWW Sites, Middle East Subjects

Middle East as a Whole:

• Middle East Studies - WWW Virtual Library (Univeristy of Texas)
• Middle East - Abstracts of RAND Reports and Analyses (The Rand Corporation, USA)
• Middle East Studies - Gopher Resources (Catholic University of America)
• Middle East Business Review (University of London, UK)
• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (University of Bergen, Norway)
• Middle East Resource Center (Golbal Publishing Group, USA)
• Middle East Water Information Network (University of Pennsylvania)
• The Arab Society of Princeton (Princeton University)
• Russian and East European Studies - WWW Virtual Library (University of Pittsburgh)
• Arab Countries' Web Sites
• Arabic Music, Films and Pictures (University of Pennsylvania)
• Embassies of Some Islamic and Arab Countries (University of Texas)
• Al Mashriq

[Cultural Multimedia Server for Lebanon and the rest of the Levant. Covers: Archaeology, Architecture, Business Media, Cinema, Music and Dance, Clothes, Peace, Education, Egypt, Postcards, Food, Geography and Maps, Health, History, Humor, Imagery from Space, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Language and Literature, Lebanon, Radio and TV, Religion, Syria, Travel.]

Middle East Newspapers on line [from most countries in the Middle East]

• Amnesty International
• Canada-U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation Network
• Derechos Human Rights
• The Human Rights Interactive Network
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Resources on the Internet
• Human Rights Watch
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• US Department of State Table of Contents for Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1996: reports released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997.
  
• Regional Groups and Resources on Human Rights
• Arab Region
• Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)
• Arab Women's Solidarity Association of North America
  
• Maghrib
• Le maghreb des droits de l'homme
• Hourriya/Liberte
  
• Countries
• Afghanistan
• Derechos Human Rights WWW site on human rights in Afghanistan
  
• Algeria
• Derechos Human Rights WWW site "Human Rights in Algeria"
  
• Bahrain
• Bahrain Freedom Movement
• Bahrain Human Rights Organization
  
• Dubai
• Government of Dubai
  
  
• Egypt
• Center for Human Rights Legal Aid
• Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession
• Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
  
• Iran
• Iranian Human Rights Working Group
• Iranian Women's Organization
  
• Iraq
• Iraq Foundation
  
• Israel
• The Israel Defense Force
  
• Kuwait
• The Human Rights Watch report on Kuwait. This report states that Kuwait's main human rights organization, the Kuwaiti Association to Defend War Victimes, was dissolved by the government on 6 August 1993.
  
• Lebanon
• Lebanese Foundation for Permanent Civil Peace
• Jordanian General Intelligence Department
  
• Morocco
• ASDHOM [Association de defense des droits de l'homme au Maroc]
  
• Pakistan
• Pakistan Students Association International Human Rights Committee
  
• Palestine/Israel
• The Alternative Information Center
• Birzeit University Human Rights Action Project
• B'tselem The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Al-Haq (Justice)
• Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
• Women's Affairs Technical Committee
• Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics
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  Saudi Arabia
• Committee for the Defense of Legimitate Rights
• Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia
  
• Sudan
• Sudan News and Views
  
• Tunisia
• Tunisia's human rights organizations including the Tunisian Human Rights League, its premier organization, have yet to acquire a presence on the Web.
  
• Turkey
• Revolutionary People's Liberation Party (DHKP/C) Persbureau Ozgurluk
• Amnesty International's views on human rights in Turkey are in the statement, Turkey: No Security Without Human Rights, by Pierre Sane, Secretary General, Amnesty International, Istanbul, October 1, 1996. Fpr AI's campaign against human rights violations in Turkey, see AI .
  
• Western Sahara
• Association de soutien a un referendum libre et regulier au sahara occidental
• About Human Rights in Western Sahara/Les droits de l'homme au sahara occidental
  
• Specific Countries/Peoples/Cultures/Religions
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Checheno-Ingush Republic (Chechnya)
• Information on Chechnya
• Chechen Republic - Detailed Maps
• Egypt
• Egypt - Home Page
• Egypt-Regional Information
• Georgia
• Link to Asian Studies - Georgia [6 links]
• Iran
• PersiaNet
• Iranian/Persian Art
• Iraq
• Israel
• Israel, a central point for connecting with all known WWW sites in Israel.
• Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Lebanon - Basic Information
• Lebanon-Government
• Oman
• Palestine
• Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem.
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia home page
• Syria
• Syria - Basic Information
• Syria - Home Page
• Syria - Other WWW Sites
• Turkey
• Time Travel into the History of Turkey
• Istanbul coming from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.
• United Arab Emirates
• Yemen
  

Scholarly Organizations and Projects Related to the Middle East

• CANMES [Candian section of MESA]
• Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies [Canada]
• The Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies [Tel Aviv University]
• Amman University [Jordan]
• University of Jordan
• Arab Universities On-Line
• Camel Researchers Database [United Arab Emirates University]
• Birzeit University [Palestinian Authority]
• Moroccan Association of Researchers and Scholars
• Arab Information Project [Georgetown University]
  

Middle East Press On-Line

• Middle East Review of International Affairs [Bar-Ilan University]
• Iran Weekly Press Digest
• Abar View [selection of editorial opinion on mostly political topics from the overseas Saudi-owned press]
• Al-Hayat [Arabic-language daily from London]
• Al-Jazirah [Saudi newspaper, in Arabic]
• Yemen Times
• Ha'aretz [select articles in English, with links to the Hebrew edition]
• Economic Perspectives [from Jordan, in English]
• Business Today [the Egyptian business daily]
• Middle East Reports
  

Movements, Alternative Politics

• Political Resources on the Middle East [political information and resistance movements in Middle East countries and the Caucasas republics]
• Committee for Defence of Legitimate Rights [in Saudi Arabia]
• Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia [a splinter group from the CDLR]
• Crisis in Egypt [reports human rights news and Ikhwan positions, from the Egyptian Action Group]
• Muslim Brotherhood Movement
• Bahrain Freedom Movement
• American Kurdish Information Network
• MED TV [Kurdish-oriented sattelite broadcaster]
• Taliban [Afghanistan]
• Hizbollah [The Association for Supporting the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon]
• al-Manar [Lebanon]
• Markazi Anjuman Khuddan-ul Qur'an Lahore [Pakistan]

Religious Materials, on-line

• Muslim Students Association, SUNY Buffalo [click on section "Qur'an" for three translations of the Qur'an: by Muhammad Shakir, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Yusuf Ali]
• Muslim Students Association, Univ of Pennsylvania [more on the Qur'an]
• Muslim Students Association, U of Missouri-Rolla [more on the Qur'an]
• Dr. T. B. Irving's translation of th Qur'an, with background information on each surah.
• The U.N.N. Islamic Society of the United Kingdom provides a translation of the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi ud-Din al-Hilani and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan.
• Muslim Students Association, Univ of Southern California provides comparisons between the various translations of the Qur'an. They also offer Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi's introductions to each surah.
• Muslim Sisters' Home Page
• Ibrahim Shafi's Islam Page which provides text versions of the Qur'an in Arabic as well as English.
• Hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Malik's al-Muwatta
• Ahlul Bayt's Home Page [a digital islamic library project, much on Shi'ism]
• Haqqani Foundation [information about Sufism and the Naqshbandi order.]
• Naqshabandi Order Home Page
• Nimatullahi Order
• Qadiri-Rifa'i Order
• Sufi home page [with translations of some of Mevlana Jamal al-Din al-Rumi's poetry, and links to selections of Mevlevi music].
  

Literature

• Sir Richard Burton's translation of 1000 Nights [hypertext version]
• Project Gutenberg links to translation of 1000 Nights
• Treasures of Persian Literature
• Persian Literature Page
• Turkish Poetry Home Page
  

History and Art

• Isfahan Home Page
• On-line Guide to al-Haram ash-Sharif
• Biographies of Muhammad's Companions
  

Social Sciences

• Social Science Resources: the Middle East and North Africa
• Virtual Library for Arab Social Science
• Arab-Israeli Politics a course taught by Clement Henry at the Univ of Texas
• Eye on Palestine provided by Jerusalem's Applied Research Institute
  

Professional Journals on line

• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies