Photorientalist.org is an independent public history
website dedicated to the visual history of the Middle East from its
19th century beginnings until the 20th century before the digital age.
The first images of the region were taken by European photographers and
travelers shortly after the birth of photography in their own continent.
Although these photographs offer valuable documentation of the people,
landscapes, and archeological sites of the region, they were taken
through a western lens reflecting a bias which came to be labeled as
Orientalism. However, as the medium evolved it was taken over by
indigenous photographers whose work stood out as more authentic than
that of their predecessors.
The mission of photorientalist.org is to preserve and share its
growing collection in order to raise awareness about the rich and
diverse history of the Middle East and North Africa. While the region
has often been portrayed as homogenous and primitive, photographs
spanning two hundred years of history prove the contrary. Moreover, in
order to explain the significance of the images in our collection, we
contextualize the photographs with in-depth articles or personal
narratives. The texts and photographs are featured in exhibitions
focused on a range of topics including historical personalities and
events, archeological sites and trails, and successful businesses and
ventures.
In order to reach a wider audience and cover a broader range of
topics, the website seeks to collaborate with other collectors who share
the same passion by showcasing their images and the stories behind
them. Submissions may be made in the form of scanned images and text
which will be appropriately credited. The website’s success depends on
these valuable contributions.
For submissions, please contact us at nschiller@photorientalist.org
The ASTENEBulletin
is published four times a year and aims to keep members informed of research
interests and queries in the field of travel in Egypt and the Near East.
Members are encouraged to submit information and material for the Bulletin
relating to on-going research and interests, conferences etc. There is
also a focus on useful subject-related bibliographies and biographies.
The Bulletin contains the following regular or semi-regular features:
articles — perhaps on work in progress, which should be no more than 2,000
words; select bibliographies; features on research resources; ASTENE news:
publications, conferences, seminars, exhibitions etc.; other exhibitions,
conferences of interest; announcements of relevant books/articles — in
preparation, forthcoming, recently published; members' notes and queries.
Submissions for the next Bulletin must
be received by 15th December 2010. We welcome articles, queries,
replies and other related matters from members. Please send the
contributions to the Editors, Sheila and Russell McGuirk via email at bulletin@astene.org.uk
The MENAdoc - Digital Collections is one of the central components of
the DFG Specialised Information Service for Middle East, North African
and Islamic Studies' digital services. MENAdoc provides Open Access
digital documents with regard to the MENA-region and to Islamic studies.
It is comprised of the following collections:
All volumes of the series Bibliotheca Islamica will be published online at the same time as the print issue, while the volumes of BTS and ITS will appear on MENAdoc with a moving wall.
All the digital services of the Specialised Information Service for
Middle East, North African and Islamic Studies supported by the DFG
based at the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt (ULB Halle) are employed in the Middle East Virtual Library MENALIB.
MENALIB provides access to bibliographic databases and gives
information to ongoing conferences and research projects in the fields
of Middle East and Islamic Studies. At the same time MENALIB provides
access to open e-documents as well as e-material under licence.
The International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage is a
high-quality, international, open access, online, double blind reviewed
publication which deals with all aspects of Religious Tourism and
Pilgrimage. The International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
(IJRTP) was founded in 2013 by an international group of researchers
(the Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Expert Group). The journal is
published by the Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Campus,
Dublin, Ireland. All articles in this journal are full text and
available on open access.
The Khalili Research Centre Image Database contains just over 30,000
images that have been scanned of the slides used for teaching Islamic
Art at the University of Oxford since the 1960s. The database
includes slides from important collections including those of Olga Ford,
Sylvia Matheson, and Antony Hutt, alongside slides and photographs
taken by academics and researchers affiliated to the KRC, Ashmolean
Museum, or Faculty of Oriental Studies.
We continue to work on
adding images to the database, and improving the metadata for records
already within the archive, and we hope that it will prove a valuable
resource to both students of Islamic Art and the public in general
AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East
presents over 20,000 images from the holdings of the American
Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The selection focuses on the
countries of Asia and the Middle East. The images come from the
collections acquired over many decades by the AGS Library including an
extensive photographic print collection. The digital collection is under
continuing development.
Read more about the collection.
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring
the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely
available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps,
manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with
contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.
How did the QDL come about?
The QDL has been developed as part of a 10-year Memorandum of
Understanding on Partnerships between the Qatar Foundation, the Qatar
National Library and The British Library. The website was developed by
the Partnership in collaboration with Cogapp.
The agreement of work for the first phase of the Partnership began in
2012, with the digitisation of a wide range of content from the British
Library’s collections. Find out more about the Partnership.
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
[ISSN 2160-3049], a sister project of AWOL, is intended as a tool to
assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to
the Middle East and Islamic Studies. It includes a developing:
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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