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!

Free online access to the Routledge Area Studies journals (ends December 16, 2011) Routledge announced its latest free access campaign, Access All Areas, offering free online access to its complete range of Area Studies journals for six weeks, available from the 3rd November to 16th December 2011. There are 17 titles in the Middle East section:  Al-Masaq  Asian Affairs  British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies  Contemporary Arab Affairs  Iranian Studies  Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations  Israel Affairs  Journal of Arabian Studies  Journal of Islamic Law and Culture  Journal of Israeli History  Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs  The Journal of North African Studies  The Journal of the Middle East and Africa  Middle East Critique  Middle Eastern Literatures  Middle Eastern Studies  Turkish Studies

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)

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/

Framing the Arab Uprisings: a historical perspective

Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture

Date: Thursday 6 October 2011
Time: 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.
 
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