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Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA Studies)

This is a multi-disciplinary guide to support research in the broad field of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Studies. Topics covered include geography, history, literatures and languages, cultures, immigration and emigration, and diasporic studies

Historical / Cultural / Sociological

General Interest

Digital Resources From Other Libraries

Abdul Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress)

Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc

Bound Manuscripts Collection, includes some Persian and Arabic items (UCLA Library)

Gertrude Bell Archive (Newcastle University)

Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection (part of Notre Dame University-Louaize via JSTOR Open Community Collections)

Historical Jewish Press (National Library of Israel / Tel-Aviv University)

Minasian, Caro--Collection of Persian and Arabic Manuscripts (UCLA Library)

La Presse francophone d'Égypte

The Qatar Digital Library

Sachtelben, William--Images of Armenian Massacre, 1895 (UCLA Library)

SALT Research Online (Istanbul, Turkey)

Travelers in the Middle East Archive (Rice University; see also the archive via the JSTOR Community Collections) 

Visual Resources of the Middle East (Yale University via JSTOR Open Community Collections)

Women's World in Qajar Iran (Harvard University)