Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Ottoman History Podcast
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
e-Médiathèque: a new online plateform of e-books and archives on Arabic and Islamic studies
e-Médiathèque is a multilingual (Arabic, Berber, French,...) digital library that gives open access to scientific and documentary collections (archives, images, manuscripts and prints) in humanities and social sciences studies of the Mediterranean region.
Those collections are tied to the research activities of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence (France) in the fields of law, linguistics, ethnology, political and religious history, architecture, oral traditions, and religion, etc. These studies geographically encompass the northern shores of the Mediterranean and the Arabic and Muslim world.
See the website (only in French so far) for more information:
NB. Access to the digital contents is through the little (auto-hiding) blue icon on the left top corner of the item.
Friday, 13 July 2012
Afghanistan in 2011
Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People
"The Asia Foundation has released findings from Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People – the broadest public opinion poll in the country. Conducted by The Asia Foundation's office in Afghanistan, the 2011 survey polled 6,348 Afghan citizens across all 34 provinces in the country on security, reconciliation, economy, and governance to assess the mood and direction of the country."
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Arabic Manuscripts Digital Library of Jerusalem
A collaborative project between the main libraries of East Jerusalem
The First Virtual Library of Collections of Arabic Manuscripts in Jerusalem
-----------------------------------------------------Developed within the framework of project Manumed, financed by the European Union and the region Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, “The Arabic Manuscripts Digital Library of Jerusalem” aims to promote the written heritage of East Jerusalem and to make this heritage accessible to all with the sole caveat of an internet connection. It relies on the latest technology to provide access which is simple, multimedia and multilingual. More than 6600 documents are searchable online.
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Partners Libraries: the Khalidi Library, the Budeiri Library, the Al-Aqsa Library and Islamic Museum, the Al Ansari Library and The Waqf Restoration Center.
See their website: http://digital-library.alquds-manuscripts.org/
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Open City Documentary Film Festival - Focus on the Middle East
OPEN CITY DOCS FEST - 21-24 JUNE 2012
UCL/TORRINGTON PLACE, LONDON WC1
**Special student discount tickets and free drinks!**
Celebrating the best of documentary film in the heart of London, Open City Docs Fest is a live festival devoted to exploring the world we live in through the vision of documentary film. Between 21-24 June the festival will challenge, explore and expand ideas of what documentary can be and do, provoking debate and opening minds. 
The Afghan Nightmare Fri 22 June, 12:00 (54 mins)
The
Afghan Nightmare gives a unique insight into the Western forces’
military tasks and possibilities in Afghanistan. Norwegian Colonel Rune
Solberg is trying to fulfill his task as military commander of the NATO
in Faryab province, while the Taliban is increasing its activity and the
handover to Afghan forces is supposed to be taking place. “The Afghan
Nightmare” depicts vividly and with dark humour the manifold obstacles
to Solberg’s mission, yet the story is told as close to the subjects as
one can possibly get, and the film keeps you gripped from start until
end.
5 Broken Cameras Thurs 21 June, 19:30 (90 mins)
Nominated for Grand Jury Award
The
extraordinary story of a Palestinian village’s resistance to
encroaching Israeli settlements is brought to life powerfully,
eloquently and personally, through the footage from Emad Burnat’s five
bullet ridden and broken cameras. It makes for an intensely powerful
personal document about one village’s struggle against oppression.
Strains of Resistance Sat 23 June, 12:00 (95 mins)
Three Syrian documentaries from '78, '03 and '11 show the arduous road
that has led from indoctrination to defection from the Ruling Baath
Party.
Tahir 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Politician Sat 23 June, 21:00 (90 mins)
When Egyptians woke up on January 25th, 2011, they never expected the
one day demonstration planned for that public holiday to evolve into a
full out revolution aimed at overthrowing the regime’s 30 year long grip
on power. Three talented young directors decided to tell their story of
the revolution from their unique cinematic point of view, choosing to
focus not only on the politics, but on a handful of individuals whose
actions would determine their fate and forever change the future of
their country. Followed by Director Q&A.
Rouge Parole Fri 22 June, 19:45 (94 mins)
The Arab Revolution erupted in a country that no one would expect: a
political earthquake that shook the whole world. Tunisia appeared to be a
quiet and stable country: until a young man set himself on fire, and
began the fight for freedom and dignity. Capturing the emotional
complexity of a revolutionary resistance, Rouge Parole is the story of a
popular revolution told by its heroes through both their silence and
their clamour.
The festival has diverse programme of more than 100 films from around the world, innovative live events and filmmaker-led works
For full festival information: www.
Tickets are bookable online, from £5 screening tickets for everyone through to a variety of day and festival passes so you can truly immerse yourself in the full festival experience.
**STUDENTS: WE ARE OFFERING DAY PASSES AT A CONCESSION RATE OF £12 OR £5 FOR ANY FILM.**
Facebook: OpenCityDocsFest
Twitter: @OpenCityDocs
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Qajar Iran Digital Archive
Afsaneh Najmabadi (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University) has launched today a new site on Qajar Women:
This site explores the lives of women during the
Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private
family holdings and participating institutions. Women’s Worlds in Qajar
Iran provides bilingual access to thousands of personal papers,
manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art
and audio materials, making it a unique online resource for social and
cultural histories of the Qajar world.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
World Bank - Open Knowledge Repository
World Bank - Open Knowledge Repository
"The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as possible. As the first phase of this policy, the Bank launched today a new Open Knowledge Repository and adopted a set of Creative Commons copyright licenses".
"The World Bank today announced that it will implement a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy builds on recent efforts to increase access to information at the World Bank and to make its research as widely available as possible. As the first phase of this policy, the Bank launched today a new Open Knowledge Repository and adopted a set of Creative Commons copyright licenses".
The Open Knowledge Repository is freely available at openknowledge.worldbank.org
Sample reports of interest for Middle East and Islamic studies:
MENA Development Reports
Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Islamic Finance
Sample reports of interest for Middle East and Islamic studies:
MENA Development Reports
Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Islamic Finance
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
SemArch : a corpus of Semitic languages recordings
This online archive created by the University of Heidelberg (Germany) contains audio recordings for Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Ethiopian and Neo-South Arabic languages and dialects, divided into:
1960 Audio-documents / 502 Speakers
20 Countries / 60 Regions / 219 Places
43 Editors and 51 Types of documents.
Friday, 23 March 2012
The Online Bibliography of Ottoman Turkish Literature
Professor Hatice Aynur, the chair of the Department of Turkish Language
and Literature at Istanbul Sehir University, has been publishing
"Üniversitelerde Eski Türk Edebiyati Çalismalari: Tezler, Yayinlar,
Haberler" (Studies on Old Turkish Literature Prepared at Universities:
Theses and Dissertations, Publications and News) continually since 1990.
Based on the record created by this publication, Professor Aynur launched "The Online Bibliography of Ottoman Turkish Literature" in November 2010.
The bibliography has an English interface http://www.ottomanliterature.
page. During the approval process of your submission over e-mail, you could also add the actual text of the work you would like to be included in the bibliography database.
Based on the record created by this publication, Professor Aynur launched "The Online Bibliography of Ottoman Turkish Literature" in November 2010.
The bibliography has an English interface http://www.ottomanliterature.
page. During the approval process of your submission over e-mail, you could also add the actual text of the work you would like to be included in the bibliography database.
Happy Norouz!
Persian New Year Norouz Celebrations at SOAS
Date: 24 March 2012Time: 7:00 PM
Finishes: 24 March 2012Time: 10:30 PM
The Programme includes:Finishes: 24 March 2012Time: 10:30 PM
Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: CelebrationPersian instrumental music by Parvaz Ensemble with Arash Moradi, Niloufar Habibian and Fariborz Kiannejad
Sanaz Sotoudeh (Pianist, Royal Academy of Music) performing Schubert, Schumann and Brahms (inspired by Goethe’s West-Östlicher Divan and the Divan of Hafez)
Hafez animation by Jila Peacock
Afghan music played and sung by Professor John Baily and Veronica Doubleday
Works by British contemporary composer Sally Beamish (inspired by Hafez) sung by Rónan Busfield (Tenor) and accompanied by Sharon Griffiths (Harpist, Scottish Symphony Orchestra)
For further information see the attached PDF file
Raffle Prize:Unique embossed Calligraphy by Jila Peacock
£25 and £15 (Concessions: Students and Senior Citizens) includes refreshments and Persian canapés. To book tickets please visit the SOAS Online Store.
Organiser: Centre for Iranian Studies and the British Institute of Persian Studies
Contact email: lh2@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4330
Sponsor: The Hinduja Brothers
Contact email: lh2@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4330
Sponsor: The Hinduja Brothers
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
BRISMES Conference 2012
BRISMES Annual Conference 2012
Revolution and Revolt: Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change
26-28 March 2012, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The Middle East Centre at LSE will host
the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) annual
conference on 26-28 March 2012. The conference will be held in
association with the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) and the Asian Federation of Middle East Associations.
The unprecedented uprisings in the Middle
East over the past year have drawn comparisons with a wide scope of
revolts from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This
conference seeks to place the focus on a multi-disciplinary
consideration of the local and regional sources and forces which have
fuelled the uprisings, as well as the narratives of the events. In
addition to an emphasis on dynamics within and interpretations of the
uprisings, presenters are encouraged to reflect on what the events may
mean for the study of the region.
The conference will also highlight the areas of research undertaken by the BRISMES research networks:
- Clerical Authority in Shiite Islam
- Critical Middle East Studies
- Faith, Politics and Society
- Liberation, Domination and Expression
- Resistance, Representation and Identity
And an additional sub-theme organised by
LLAS Centre for languages, linguistics and area studies with the
sponsorship of the Higher Education Academy Islamic Studies Network:
- Teaching and learning about Islam and Muslims in UK higher education
As in previous BRISMES conferences,
panels on topics not covered by the overall theme or the research
networks maybe also be proposed. Individual papers, however, will not be
accepted unless they are relevant to the overall theme, relevant to the
research network sessions, or integral to a panel proposed on the
topic.
Non-presenting conference participants are warmly welcomed.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Free Online Access to ALL Palgrave Macmillan Journals in March!
Palgrave Macmillan is offering FREE online access to their complete journals portfolio during March 2012.Access Palgrave Macmillan Journals Online
On-campus access: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/jnlindex.html Off-campus access: http://www.palgrave- journals.com/nams/svc/ institutelogin?target=/pal/ jnlindex.html [login via your institution]
Palgrave Macmillan publish high quality, scholarly journals across the core disciplines of the humanities, the social sciences and business and management.From March 1st to 31st we are providing free online access to the current content and archives of more than 60 Palgrave Macmillan journals – including Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of International Business Studies, IMF Economic Review and Feminist Review.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Limited-time database trial
The SOAS Library has signed up for a two weeks trial (finishing 9th December) of the
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database
This
comprehensive database provides access to citations for US
dissertations and theses since 1627, with full-text for most titles
since 1997.
Please give your feedback to our electronic team.
Monday, 21 November 2011
FREE BRILL E-BOOKS TRIAL till 23rd January 2012
Dear SOAS staff and students,
We have a free trial of the following e-book packages from Brill until 23rd January 2012
Middle East and Islamic Studies 2007
Asian Studies 2007
Global Oriental 2010 (link on left hand side)
You can access them at: http://ebooks.brillonline.nl (on-site).
Have a try and let the Electronic Resources team (electronic@soas.ac.uk) know what you think!
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique - Free online
Previously available only on a CD with periodic updates, the 10th edition of the Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique is now available free online. Registration required. (Note: the interface and application are in French).
[from H-TURK post]
[from H-TURK post]
"PUBL.- 2011 Issue of Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique online
Thesaurus d'épigraphie islamique is now available on the Web and free!
Just go to http://www.epigraphie-islamique.org
Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique (formerly on CD-Rom, now online), new issue :
No. 10 : Inscriptions from South-East Asia (Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam)
In the same issue are also included, updated:
No. 1: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya;
No. 2: Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain);
No. 3: Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan);
Nos. 4 and 5: Egypt;
No. 6: Indian world (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives);
Nos. 7-9 : Sub-Saharan Africa, Irak, Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, France)
Now altogether almost 23,000 inscriptions, with 6,000 photos of inscriptions.
The Thesaurus d'epigraphie islamique is designed and compiled under the direction of Ludvik Kalus, Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and Directeur d'Etudes at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
Carried out by Frederique Soudan, Chargee de recherche de la Fondation Max van Berchem.
Developed under the patronage of the Fondation Max van Berchem (Geneva).
The goal of the Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique is to bring together all of the inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (as well as in other "small" languages) from the Muslim world up to the year 1000 of the Hegira.
The Thesaurus d'epigraphie islamique is a vital resource for historians, art historians and other specialists of the region.
Operating under the major Web browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Internet explorer) , it performs searches quickly and easily by various criteria such as date, current location, kind of inscription, site, type of support, material and more. By doing a word search in the Arabic text, it is possible to locate every inscription containing a particular word, in couple of seconds.
For epigraphical and technical questions, please contact:
epigraphie.islamique@noos.fr (Ludvik Kalus and Frederique Soudan)"
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
CRL webinar on Middle East resources
A useful presentation of resources for Middle Eastern studies (including a webinar) by the Center of Research Libraries :
"The Fall issue of the CRL online publication FOCUS on Global Resources spotlights the Middle East and Islam. Learn more about Middle Eastern resources available at CRL or online, a professor’s use of provincial newspapers to explore the emergence of Turkish national identity, and documentation of the Arab Spring uprisings in and through various media.FOCUS is available at http://www.crl.edu/focus/fall-2011"
(Judy Alspach, Center for Research Libraries)
Thursday, 6 October 2011
When a blog is so good...
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
This regularly updated blog offers plenty of news regarding academic resources on the Middle East.
It includes among other valuable information: a list of Journals in Open Access and a list of blogs with sources and scientific secondary texts (carnets de recherche),
without journalistic or polemical blogs.
Enjoy!
http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/
Monday, 3 October 2011
Framing the Arab Uprisings: a historical perspective
Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture
Date: Thursday 6 October 2011Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Juan Cole
Chair: Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Juan Cole is Richard P Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of the blog Informed Comment.
This lecture is funded by the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Foundation and is part of The Fred Halliday Distinguished Lecture Series.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #lsemiddleeast
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
Media queries: please contact the Press Office if you would like to reserve a press seat or have a media query about this event, email pressoffice@lse.ac.uk
From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the event.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
The London MENA (Middle East & North Africa) Film Festival
Launch - October 2011
Festival - November 2011
The London MENA Film Festival aims at being the platform for cinematic expression from the MENA
region and her UK Diaspora. LMFF will be accessible to everyone. It will be launched on 14th October 2011 with four film
screenings and talks with Directors.
Keep up to date on Facebook (The
London MENA Film Festival) or Twitter (#menafilmfest) and via their website www.menafilmfest.com
For tickets email tickets@menafilmfest.com
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