Download - ARABIC SITES on the INTERNET
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The Information Resource Center
Public Affairs Office,
U.S. Embassy, Cairo-Egypt
Homepage: http://cairo.usembassy.gov/irc/index.htm
Tel: 797-3295 – Fax: 2797-3400
LAST REVISED: JULY 7, 2009
A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE
BEST ARABIC LANGUAGE SITES on the
INTERNET
USA OFFICIAL SITES
Embassy of the United States in Egypt
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/
Visa & Consular Services
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/consular/index.htm
U.S. Government Reports
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pa/hr_reports.htm
Trade and Development Agency
Includes all homepages of International Trade Administration (ITA) entities
www.tda.gov
www.ita.doc.gov
Home page of the Commercial Service in Egypt
http://www.buyusa.gov/egypt/ar/
Regional Arabic Book Program
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pa/rbo.htm
U.S. Department of State
A: http://america.gov/ar/
U.S. Department of State, Office of International Information Programs
http://america.gov/ar/
PUBLICATIONS from Department of State
http://www.america.gov/publications.html
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Muslim Life in America – Arabic Language web page
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/being-muslim-in-america.html
E-Journals
http://www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.html
USAID: United States AID Program in Egypt
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/usaid_ar.htm
"Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants."
http://uscis.gov/graphics/citizenship/welcomeguide/index.htm
New U.S. Web Site Helps Legal Immigrants Assimilate Welcome to USA.gov
provides wide variety of information
http://www.welcometousa.gov/
OTHERS
Search engine for ARABIC MUSIC
www.araby.com
Arabic Election Law Compendium (English, French & Arabic,)
E: http://www.arabelectionlaw.net/
A: http://www.arabelectionlaw.net/index_ar.html
Carnegie Endowment: on Middle East
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/programs/arabic/
Arabic Reform Bulletin: from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18528&prog=zg
p&proj=zted.
Carnegie Endowment Arabic Language Website: included are translations of Carnegie papers and commentaries on the Middle East and related subjects, as well as writings published originally
in Arabic at URL: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/programs/arabic/
Arab Reform Bulletin
http://www.alwatan.com.kw/arb/
Arab Social Science Research
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http://www.assr.org/vlibrary/source.html ASSR organized by country and by subject and by type of resources for each of the 22 Arab countries.
IFES: International Non-Profit Organization that supports building of Democratic
societies (French, Spanish & Arabic)
E: http://www.ifes.org/
A:http://www.ifes.org/publication/0db674f3b9c9c976b1aafb3c6e3b1396/IFES_Brochure_
Arabic.pdf
EGYPT: BASIC INFORMATION
Egyptian Government Services Portal
E: http://www.egypt.gov.eg/english/default.asp
A: http://www.egypt.gov.eg/arabic/default.asp
Egypt’s Information Portal
Information and Decision Support Center
http://www.idsc.gov.eg/
The Egyptian Presidency
http://www.presidency.gov.eg/
Office of the Prime Minster
http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/
The People’s Assembly
http://www.assembly.gov.eg/
The Shoura Council
http://www.shoura.gov.eg/
Egyptian Government
http://www.egypt.gov.eg/arabic/default.asp
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mfa.gov.eg/mfa_portal/ar-EG/
Egypt State Information Service
http://www.sis.gov.eg/Ar/
The Library of Alexandria http://www.bibalex.org/arabic/index.aspx
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The Library of Alexandria / electronic books in image format (archives)
http://archive.bibalex.org/mybook/fp/
Egypt Cultural Affairs & Missions
http://www.mohe-casm.edu.eg/
MEDIA/NEWS: International (all languages)
News and Newspapers on Line http://library.uncg.edu/news/
NewsConnect: good for journalists
http://www.newsconnect.net/ World Newspapers/By Continent
www.world-newspapers.com BBC Arabic.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/ NEWS (around the world) all languages
www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml
Arab World (news, jobs, songs, etc)
www.4arabs.com Al-Ahram Newspaper
http://www.ahram.org.eg/
Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper: Review Articles: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/index.htm
Al-Akhbar Newspaper
http://www.elakhbar.org.eg/
Masrawy: A journal
http://www.masrawy.com/
ALJADID Magazine: A Review and records of Arab Cultures and Arts
http://www.aljadid.com/
AFKAR: (Tunisia) Revue Intellectuelle Electronique (Arabic, French & English)
http://www.afkaronline.org/
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El Bab magazine (an open door to the Arab World):
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/iraq/unscr1441.htm
Al Jazeera Net
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8FD54E7F-56C5-49A0-B60A-89A67426F3B3.htm
Filbalad: Conversations & News
http://www.filbalad.com/
Review of Arabic Literature: IN ENGLISH
BANIPAL: Magazine of Arabic literature
www.banipal.co.uk
WOMEN
U.N. Division for the Advancements of Women (DAW) E: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/
A: http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/419/72/PDF/N0641972.pdf?OpenElement
Arabic Libraries & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
Amman Center for Human Rights Studies http://achrs.org/arabic/default.asp
ARABIC LIBRARIES
http://www.cybrarians.info/dir/1.htm
ARAB LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
http://www.cybrarians.info/ Directories of Open Access E-Journals
http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/index.htm
MOTION PICTURES
Arab Film TV School
http://arabfilmtvschool.edu.eg/mainpage.asp Syria Live Net…..Arabic Plays & Movies on the net
http://www.syrialive.net/Entertainment/movies/movies_arabic_clips.htm
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DICTIONARIES/LANGUAGE LEARNING
Arabic Language Wikipedia – the free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language
Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org/World/Arabic/
MSN Arabia …Search Engine….All subjects’http://www.arabic.arabia.msn.com/?DC=true
FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS:
Children & Youth
http://www.bara3m.com/
KIDS: for Entertainment
http://tofoula.blogspirit.com/
International Digital Children’s Library
Authors & Illustrators: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/AuthorList?lang=Arabic Search: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategorySEARCH
SEARCH ENGINES ALL THE WEB
www.alltheweb.com
Learn Arabic from Alltheweb.com website
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf8&q=arabic&rys=0&itag=crv&
_sb_lang=any Basic and All Search engines listed on one page
www.allsearchengines.com
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES:
MIDDLE EAST DEPARTMENTS AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Harvard University Sackler Museum 485 Broadway Cambridge MA 02138
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Contact: Gülru Necipoglu, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture ([email protected])
Phone: 617-495-2355 • fax 617-496-8389 [email protected] http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Room 10-390 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02139-4307 Contact: Nasser Rabbat, Director ([email protected] ) Phone: 617-253-1400 • fax 617-258-8172 [email protected] http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/
Brandeis University
Crown Center for Middle East Studies
Mailstop 010 Waltham MA 02454-9110 Contact: Kristina Cherniahivsky ,Associate Director ([email protected] ) Phone: 781-736-5320 • fax 781-736-5324 [email protected] http://www.brandeis.edu/crown
Brown University
Middle East Studies Program
Providence RI 02912 Contact: David Kennedy, Interim Director ([email protected]) Phone: 401-863-2038 • fax 401-863-7337 [email protected] http://www.watsoninstitute.org/middleeast/index.cfm
Columbia University
Middle East Institute
1114 International Affairs Bldg New York NY 10027 Contact: Peter J. Awn, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 212-854-2584 • fax 212-854-1413 [email protected] http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/REGIONAL/mei
Cornell University
Dept of Near Eastern Studies
409 White Hall Ithaca NY 14853-7901 Contact: Kim Haines-Eitzen, Chair ([email protected]) Phone: 607-255-6275 • fax 607-255-6450 [email protected] http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/index.html
Emory University Dept of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies 537 Kilgo Circle S-312 Callaway Center Atlanta, GA 30322 Contact: Nick Fabian, Academic Department Administrator ([email protected]) Phone: (404) 727-2697 • fax (404) 727-2133
http://mesas.emory.edu/
Dartmouth College
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program
101D Bartlett Hall Hanover, NH 03755
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Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755-3525 Contact: Steven Ericson, Program Chair ([email protected] ) Phone: 603-646-2861 • fax 603-646-3115 [email protected] http://www.dartmouth.edu/~asia
Duke University
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
222 Trent Hall, Box 90414 Durham NC 27705 Contacts: Leo Ching, Chair ([email protected]) Miriam Cooke, Professor, Asian & African Languages & Literature ([email protected]) Phone: 919-684-2312 • fax 919-681-7871 http://www.duke.edu/web/aall/major-minor.html
Foundation for Iranian Studies
4343 Montgomery Ave #200 Bethesda MD 20814 Contact: Mahnaz Afkhami, Director Phone: 301-657-1990 • fax 301-657-1983 [email protected] http://www.fis-iran.org
Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Intercultural Center 241 Washington DC 20057-1020 Contact: Michael Hudson, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-687-5793 • fax 202-687-7001 [email protected] http://ccas.georgetown.edu
Georgetown University, Prince Alwaleed Center Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
3700 O Street NW Intercultural Center (ICC) Suite 260 Washington, D.C. 20057 Phone: 001-202-687-8375 • fax 001-202-687-8376 Contact: Ali Mazrui, Co-chair Academic Council (2006-2009) ([email protected]) John L. Esposito, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-687-8375 • fax 202-687-8376 [email protected] http://cmcu.georgetown.edu
Georgia State University
Middle East Institute
PO Box 4089 Atlanta GA 30303-4089 Contact: Dona J. Stewart, Director ([email protected] ) Phone: 404-413-6146 • fax 404-413-6141 http;//www.gsu.edu/mideast
Harvard University
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland Street Cambridge MA 02138 Contact: Stevem Caton, Chair ([email protected] ) Phone: 617-495-4056 • fax 617-496-8584 [email protected] http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu
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Georgetown University, Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS)
Intercultural Center Box 571033 Washington DC 20057-1033 Contact: David Cuthell, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-687-0295 • fax 202-687-3780 [email protected] http://www.turkishstudies.org
Johns Hopkins University
School for Advanced International Studies
1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC 20036
Contact: John M. Harrington, Associate Dean ([email protected])
Phone: 202-663-5745 • fax 202-663-5619 [email protected] or [email protected] http://www.sais-jhu.edu/index.html
Brigham Young University National Middle East Language Resource Center
214 HRCB Provo UT 84602 Contact: Kirk Belnap, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 801-422-7192 • fax 801-422-0382 [email protected] http://www.nmelrc.org
New York University
Hagop Kevokian Center for Near Eastern Studies
50 Washington Sq South New York NY 10012 Contact: Michael Gilsenan, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 212-998-8877 • fax 212-995-4144 [email protected] http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast
Ohio State University
Middle East Studies Center 325 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave Columbus OH 43210-1219 Contact: Alam Payind, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 614-292-5897 • fax 614-292-4273 [email protected] http://mesc.osu.edu
Princeton University, Program in Near Eastern Studies
110 Jones Hall Princeton NJ 08544-1008
Contacts: M. Sükrü Hanioğlu, Director ([email protected]) Christine Riley, Program Manager ([email protected]) Phone: 609-258-4272 • fax 609-258-9055 [email protected] http://www.princeton.edu/~nep
Princeton University, Institute for the Transregional Study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
327 Aaron Burr Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Contacts: Bernard Haykel, Director ([email protected]) Joyce Slack, Program Manager ([email protected]) Phone: 609-258-2178 • fax 609-258-0204 [email protected] http://www.princeton.edu/~transreg/
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Stanford University
Sohaib and Sara Abassi Program in Islamic Studies
Encina Hall West Rm 216 Stanford CA 94305-6045 Contact: Robert C. Gregg, Director ([email protected])
Phone: (650) 736 8169 • fax (650) 723 3010 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/
Syracuse University
Middle Eastern Studies Program
332 Eggers Hall Syracuse NY 13244-1090 Contact: Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 315-443-5877 • fax 315-443-9082 [email protected] http://middle-eastern-studies.syr.edu
Tufts University, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
160 Packard Avenue Medford MA 02155 Contact: Leila Fawaz, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 617-627-6560 • fax 617-627-3461 [email protected] http://farescenter.tufts.edu
Tufts University, Program on Southwest Asia & Islamic Civilization
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Cabot 603 Medford MA 02155 Contact: Andrew C. Hess, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 617-627-2734 • fax 617-627-3388 http://fletcher.tufts.edu/swaic/
United States Naval Academy
Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies 106 Maryland Avenue annapolis MD 21402
Contact: Brannon Wheeler, Director ([email protected])
Phone: 410-293-6307 • fax 410-293-2994 http://www.usna,edu/MiddleEast/index.html
University of Arizona
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
845 N Park Ave, Room 470 Tucson AZ 85721 Contact: Anne H. Betteridge, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 520-621-5450 • fax 520-621-9257 [email protected] http://www.cmes.arizona.edu
University of Arkansas
King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies
202 Old Main Fayetteville AR 72701 Contact: Thomas Paradise, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 479-575-4157 • fax 479-575-3629 [email protected] http://www.uark.edu/depts/mesp/
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University of California, Berkeley
Center for Middle Eastern Studies 340 Stephens Hall #2314 Berkeley CA 94720 Contact: Nezar AlSayyad, Center Chair ([email protected]) Phone: 510-642-8208 • fax 510-643-3001 [email protected] http://cmes.berkeley.edu
University of California, Los Angeles
Gustav von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
10286 Bunche Hall, PO Box 951480 Los Angeles CA 90095-1480 Contact: Susan Slyomovics, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 310-825-1181 • fax 310-206-2406 [email protected] http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/
University of California, Santa Barbara Center for Middle East Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Contact: Dwight Reynolds, Director ([email protected])
Phone : 805.893.4245• fax 805.893.2059
[email protected] http://www.cmes.ucsb.edu/
University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Chicago
Pick hall 201, 5828 s. university Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Contact: Holly Shissler, Director ([email protected])
Phone: 773.702.8297 [email protected] http://www.cmes.uchicago.edu/
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Rm 221, 910 South Fifth Street Champaign IL 61820 Contacts: Hadi Esfahani, Director ([email protected]) Ritu Saksena, Associate Director ([email protected]) Phone: 217-244-7331 • fax 217-265-6399 [email protected] http://www.csames.uiuc.edu/
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Middle Eastern Studies Program
729 Herter Hall 161 Presidents Drive University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Contact: Tayeb El-Hibri, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 413-545-5874• fax 413-545-5876 [email protected] http://www.umass.edu/judaic/
University of Michigan
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies
1080 South University Suite 2607 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1106 Contact: Gottfried Hagen, Director ([email protected])
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Phone: 734-764-0350 • fax 734-764-8523 [email protected] http://www.ii.umich.edu/cmenas/
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East & Muslim Civilizations
301 Pittsboro Street 3025 FedEx Global Education Center Campus Box 7582 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7582 Contact: Carl W. Ernst, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 919-843-0129 • fax 919-843-2102 [email protected] http://www.unc.edu/mideast/index.html
University of Notre Dame
Department of Classics
304 O’Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame IN 46556 Contact: Elizabeth Forbis Mazurek, Chair ([email protected]) Phone: 574-631-7195 • fax 574-631-4268 [email protected] http://classics.nd.edu
University of Pennsylvania
Middle East Center
228 Fisher-Benett Hall #228, 3340 Walnut St Philadelphia PA 19104-6203 Contacts: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Director ([email protected]) Zeynep Turan, Associate Director ([email protected]) Phone: 215-898-6355 • fax 215-573-2003 [email protected] http://mec.sas.upenn.edu
University of Texas at Austin
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400 Austin TX 78712-0527 Contact: Kamran Aghaie, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 512-471-3881 • fax 512-471-7834 [email protected] http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cmes
University of Utah Middle East Center Orson Spencer Hall 260 S Central Campus Dr Rm 153 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Contact: Linda Adams, Outreach Director ([email protected]) Phone: (801) 581-6181• fax (801) 581-6183 [email protected] http://www.mec.utah.edu/
University of Virginia Middle East Studies Program P.O. Box 400781 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4781 Phone: (434) 924-3452 • fax (434) 924-6977 Contact: Daniel Lefkowitz, Director ([email protected]) http://faculty.virginia.edu/mesp/
University of Washington
Middle East Center
225 Thomson Hall, Box 353650 Seattle WA 98195
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Contacts: Philip S. Schuyler, Director ([email protected]) Felicia Hecker, Associate Director ([email protected]) Phone: 206-543-4227 • fax 206-685-0668 [email protected] http://jsis.washington.edu/mideast
University of Washington, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
229 Denny Hall, Box 353120 Seattle, WA 98195-3120 USA Contacts: Scott Noegel, Chair ([email protected]) Phone: 206.543.6033 • fax 206.685.7936 [email protected] http://depts.washington.edu/nelc/
Vanderbilt University
Religious Studies Department
Box 351585, 2301 Vanderbilt Pl Nashville TN 37235-1585 Contact: Richard McGregor ([email protected]) Phone: 615-343-2462 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/islamicstudies
Villanova University
Center for Arab and Islamic Studies
Old Falvey Hall 204 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085 Contact: Dr. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi ([email protected]) Phone: (610) 519-4640 • fax (610) 519-6133
http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/arabislamic/
Washington University in St. Louis
Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
Campus Box 1121, One Brookings Drive St Louis MO 63130 Contact: Pamela Barmash ([email protected]) Phone: 314-935-8567 • fax 314-935-7462 http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jines/index.htm
Yale University
Council on Middle East Studies
The MacMillan Center Yale University 34 Hillhouse Avenue P. O. Box 208206 New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8206 Contact: Marcia C. Inhorn, Chair ([email protected]) Phone: 203-436-2553 • fax 203-432-9381 [email protected] http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/cmes
professional associations and institutions
American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) 1507 E. 53rd St Suite 920 Chicago, IL 60615
Contact: Stephanie Platz, Executive Director ([email protected])
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Phone: 773 844-9658 http:// www.taarii.org
American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) 3416 Primm Lane Birmingham, AL 35216 Contact: Elizabeth Bergman, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone: 205 822-6800; Fax: 205 823-2760
http://aataweb.org/
American Association of Teachers of Persian (AATP) 1400 LNCO 255 S. Central Drive South Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Contact: Soheila Amirsoleimani, President ([email protected]) Phone: (801) 585-3011 http://www.aatp.biz
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) Princeton University Near Eastern Studies Princeton, NJ 08544-1008
Contact: Erika H. Gilson, Executive Secretary/Treasurer ([email protected])
Phone: (609) 258-1435; Fax: (609) 258-1242 http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS).
845 N. Park Ave. Marshall Bldg., Room 477 PO Box 210158-B Tucson, AZ 85721-0158 Contact: Kerry Adams, Executive Director ([email protected]) AIMS sponsors The Journal of North African Studies. John P. Entelis is AIMS Publications Officer ([email protected]) Phone: (520) 626-6498 http://aimsnorthafrica.org/
American Institute for Yemeni Studies P.O. Box 311 Ardmore PA 19003-0311 Contact: Maria de J. Ellis Ph.D., Executive Director Phone (610) 896-5412; fax (610) 896-9049 E-mail: [email protected]
American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS)
118 Riverside Dr., No. 13A New York, NY 10024 USA Contact: Dr. Erica Ehrenberg, Exec. Director ([email protected]) Fax: 212 874-4094 http://www.simorgh-aiis.org/
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
University of Wisconsin Department of Anthropology 5240 Social Science Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 Contact: Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, President ([email protected]) Phone: 608-262-5696
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http://www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
8700 Crownhill Blvd Suite 507 San Antonio, TX 78209-1130 Contact: Emily Teeter, President ([email protected]) Phone: 210.821.7000 http://www.arce.org/
American Schools of Oriental Research Boston University 656 Beacon Street, 5th floor Boston, MA 02215-2010 Contact: Andy Vaughn, Executive Director (until December 31, 2012) ([email protected] /[email protected]) Tel: (617) 353-6570; Fax: (617) 353-6575 http://www.asor.org/
Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research (AACAR)
Department of History Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 Contact: Dr. John Dunn, Treasurer ([email protected]) Journal of Central Asian Studies, Editor: Reuel Hanks, [email protected])
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/organizations/aacar.html
Association for Environmental & Developmental Studies in the Arab World (AEDSAW)
Department of History and Geography Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 Contact: James Miller, President ([email protected]) http://almashriq.hiof.no/aedsaw
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS)
Department of Politics Princeton University 238 Corwin Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 Contact: Azza Basarudin, AMEWS Secretary ([email protected]) Amaney Jamal, Treasurer The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Diane James, Managing Editor ([email protected])
http://www.amews.org/
Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA)
P.O. Box 305100
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203 Contact: Nada Shabout, President ([email protected])
http://www.amcainternational.org
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) Department of History University of Delaware
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Newark, DE 19716 Contact: Rudi Matthee, President ([email protected]) Phone: 302 831-4544; Fax: 302 831-1538 http://www.persianatesocieties.org/
Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG)
211 East 4th St. New York, NY10009- 7213 Contact: Khalil Barhoum, President ([email protected]) Publishes Arab Studies Quarterly, Ibrahim Aoude, Editor([email protected]) Phone: 212 529-3001
Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
P.O. Box 33699 Washington, D.C 20033 Contact: Mark T. Clark, President ([email protected]) Phone: 202-429-8860 • fax 202-429-8863 http://www.asmeascholars.com
Assyrian Academic Society (AAS) AAS publishes the Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society (JAAS)
8324 N Lincoln Ave. Skokie, IL 60076 Contact: Dr. John C. Michael, Committee Advisor ([email protected]) Phone: (847) 982-5800
Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, F9400 Austin, TX 78712-0527 Contact: Mahmoud Al-Batal, Director ([email protected] / [email protected] ) Phone: (512) 471-3513; Fax: (512) 471-0739 http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/casa/
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
PO Box 37012, MRC-178, Washington DC 20013-7012 Contact: Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202 633-1599; Fax: 202 786-2430 http://www.caorc.org
Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) Dept. of Art History New York University 303 Silver Center 100 Washington Square East New York, NY 10003 Contact: Renata Holod, President ([email protected]) Marianna Shreve Simpson, President-elect (February 2010-2012)([email protected]) Finbarr Barry Flood ([email protected]) http://www.historiansofislamicart.org
Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS)
3501 M Street NW Washington DC 20007-2624 Contact: Linda Butler, Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-342-3990; fax 202-342-3927 http://www.palestine-studies.org
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Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) University of California at Berkeley 438 Doe Library, Berkeley CA 94720-6000 Contact: Shayee H. A. Khanaka, President ([email protected]) Phone: 510 643-3145; Fax: 510 643-6650
MERIP/Middle East Research & Information Project
1500 Massachusetts Ave NW #119 Washington DC 20005 Contact: Chris Toensing, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-223-3677 • fax 202-223-3604 http://www.merip.org
Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
Department of Economics University of Illinois 212 David Kinley Hall 1407 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61081 Contact: Hadi Salehi Esfahani, President ([email protected]) Phone: (217) 333-2681 http://www.meeaweb.org/
Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) MIT Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Contact: Omar Khalidi, President ([email protected]) Phone: 617.258.5597 http://www.mela.us/
Middle East Medievalists (MEM)
Department of History Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven, CT 06515, U.S.A. Contact: Suleiman A. Mourad, Vice-President ([email protected]) Phone: (203) 392-5605 http://www.middleeastmedievalists.org/
Middle East Outreach Council (MEOC) Middle East Studies Center Portland State University PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751 Contact: Jean Campbell, President ([email protected]) Phone: 503 725-8566 http://www.meoc.us/
Middle East Studies Association of North America 1219 N. Santa Rita Avenue University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721
Contact: Amy W. Newhall, Executive Director ([email protected])
Phone: 520 621-5850; Fax: 520 626-9095 http://mesa.wns.ccit.arizona.edu/
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Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS))
Department of History Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 Contact: Robert Hunter, President ([email protected] Phone: 812 237-8434; fax 812 237-7713)
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 Contact: Gil Stein, Director ([email protected])
Phone: 773-702-9514
http://oi.uchicago.edu/
Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) 6520 E. Halbert Rd. Bethesda, MD 20817-5414 Contact: Penelope Mitchell, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone301-229-4606 http://parc-us-pal.org/
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS)
P.O. Box 8023 Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8023 Contact: Ron Messier, President ([email protected] / [email protected]) Phone: 912-764-9802; Fax: 912-681-0653 http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/sermeiss
Sudan Studies Association (SSA) Dept. of Anthropology Rhode Island College Providence, RI 02908 Contact: Dr. Richard Lobban, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone: (401) 456-8784 http://www.sudanstudies.org/
Syrian Studies Association (SSA)
214 C Hall History, Carlson Hall 380 S 1400 East Rm211 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Contact: Peter Sluglett, President ([email protected]) http://www.ou.edu/ssa/
Turkish Studies Association (TSA) Jackson School of International Studies Box 353650 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Contact: Reşat Kasaba, President 2008-2010 ([email protected])
Phone: 206-543-6890; Fax: 206-685-0668 http://www.h-net.org/~thetsa/
THINK TANKS American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
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Washington, D.C. 20036 Contact: Daniel Pletka, Vice President – Foreign and Defense Policy Studies ([email protected]) Phone: 202-862-4871; fax 202-862-7171 http://www.aei.org
The Brookings Institution
Saban Center for Middle East Policy
1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contacts: Martin S. Indyk, Director; Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research
Phone: 202-797-6000
http://www.brookings.edu
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20036-2103 Contact: Marina Ottaway, Director of Middle East Program ([email protected]) Phone: 202-483-7600; fax 202-483-1840 http://www.carnegieendowment.org
CATO Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20001-5403 Contact: Cristopher A. Preble, Associate Director of Foreign Policy Studies ([email protected]) Phone: 202-842-0200; fax 202-842-3490 http://www.cato.org
The Center for National Policy 1 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 333 Washington, D.C. 20001 Contact: Adam Rawnsley, Foreign Policy Program Associate ([email protected]) 202-682-1800 • fax 202-682-1818 http://www.cnponline.org
Center for Strategic & International Studies 1800 K Street., NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Contact: Dr. Jon B. Alterman , Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program ([email protected]) Phone: 202-775-3295 / 202-887-0200 • fax 202-775-3199 http://www.csis.org
Council on Foreign Relations 1777 F Street., NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Contacts: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies ([email protected]) Eliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies ([email protected]) Steven Cook, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies ([email protected]) Phone: 202-509-8400; fax 202-509-8490 http://www.cfr.org
Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, D.C. 20002-4999 Contact: James Phillips, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs Phone: 202-546-4400; fax 202-546-8328 [email protected] http://www.heritage.org
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Hudson Institute 1015 15th Street., NW, 6
th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005 Contact: Meyrav Wurmser, Director of Center for Middle East Policy Phone: 202-974-2400 ; fax 202-974-2410 [email protected] http://www.hudson.org
The New America Foundation 1899 L Street., NW Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20036 Contact: Amjad Atallah, Co-Director of Middle East Task Force ( [email protected]) Phone: 202-986-2700 ; fax 202-986-3696 http://www.newamerica.net
United States Institute of Peace 1200 17
th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036 Contact: David Brumberg, Acting Director, Muslim World Initiative ([email protected]) Phone: 202-457-1700 ; fax 202-429-6063 http://www.usip.org
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20004-3027 Contact: Sharon Haleh Esfandiari, Director of Middle East Program ( [email protected]) Phone: 202-691-4000 http://www.wilsoncenter.org
Rand Corporation 1776 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401-3208 Contact: David Aaron, Director RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy ([email protected]) Phone: 310-393-0411; fax 310-393-4818 http://www.rand.org
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy 1828 L Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, D.C. 20036 Contact: Sharon Coleman McCarter Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research Phone: 202-452-0650 • fax 202-223-5364 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org
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OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Arab-American Institute 1600 K Street, NW Suite 601 Washington, DC 20006 Contacts: James Zogby, President ([email protected]) Helen Samhan ,Executive Director 202-429-9210 ; fax 202-429-9214 http://www.aaiusa.org
The Arab-American National Museum 13624 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48126 Contact: Anan Ameri, Director 313-582-AANM ; fax 313-582-1086 [email protected] http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org
American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee 1732 Wisconsin Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20007 Contact: Mary Rose Oakar, President ( [email protected]) Phone: 202-244-2990 ; fax 202-244-7968 http://www.adc.org
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services 2651 Saulino Ct. Dearborn, MI 48120 Contact: Hannan Deep, Director of Communications ([email protected]) Phone: 313-842-7010 ; fax 313-842-5150 http://www.accesscommunity.org
Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 [email protected] http://web.gc.cuny.edu/memeac/index.html
National Network for Arab American Communities
4917 Schaefer Rd. Suite 200 Dearborn, MI 48126 Contact: Taleb Salhab, Director ( [email protected]) 313-843-2844; fax 313-846-6039 http://www.nnaac.org
Muslim Public Affairs Council 1625 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 601 Washington, D.C. 20036 Contact: Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director ([email protected]) Phone: 202-265-1200; fax 202-265-1222 http://www.mpac.org
Islamic Society of North America
PO Box 38 Plainfield, IN 46168 Contacts: Mukhtar Ahmad, Director of Programs ([email protected]) Ahmed El-Hattab, Acting Secretary General ([email protected])
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Phone: 317-839-8157; fax 317-839-1840 http://www.isna.net
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy 1625 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Suite 601
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contact: Asma Afsaruddin, Chair ([email protected]) Radwan Masmoudi, President ([email protected]) Phone: (202) 265-1200 http://www.csidonline.org
Middle East Institute 1761 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20036-2882 Contact: Ambassador Wendy J. Chamberlin, President Publishes The Middle East Journal ([email protected]) Phone: 202-785-1141; fax 202-331-8861 [email protected] /[email protected] http://www.mideasti.org
Middle East Policy Council 1730 M Street, NW Suite 512 Washington, DC 20036 Contact: William L. Nash, President Publishes Middle East Policy (Erin Perry, Editorial Assistant [email protected]) Phone: 202-296-6767 [email protected] http://www.mepc.org
National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations 1730 M Street, NW Suite 503 Washington, DC 20036 Contact: Patrick Mancino, Vice President 202-293-6466 • fax 202-293-7770 [email protected] http://www.ncusar.org
National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations 1730 M Street, NW Suite 503 Washington, DC 20036 Contacts: Dr. John Duke Anthony, President & Chief Executive Officer ([email protected]) Dr. James Winship, Vice President, Programs ([email protected]) Phone: 202-293-6466; fax 202-293-7770 [email protected] http://www.ncusar.org
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development 2425 Virginia Ave, NW Washington, DC 20037 202-338-1958 • fax 202-333-7742 [email protected] http://www.thejerusalemfund.org
DISCLAIMER: Links to these and other Internet sites should not be construed as an
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