Subject page for Middle East Studies
Search Oria – the library catalogue
Contact
Serena Baldari
Subject specialist in Theology, Religion and Middle East Studies
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Literary resources for Middle East Studies, as well as for Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish.
Databases & encyclopedias
- Index Islamicus – Covers all fields with connection to the Islamic world
- Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
- JSTOR – Electronic journals in all fields, more than 2000 titles
- Factiva – Large global news database (Info)
Subject terms
- Finding Middle East Literature
- Dewey subject register to the library's catalogue
- Humord: Keyword subjects
Transliteration
Transliteration tools and rules for transliteration.
Other Middle East information resources
Libraries and text collections:
- Arabic Collections Online - المجموعات العربية على الانترنت
- Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC)
- AMIR – Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources
- MENAdoc – Digital Collections
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library catalogue)
- Milli Kütüphane Başkanlığı – National Library of Turkey
- National Library of Iran
- National Library of Israel
Organisations and blogs:
- Arab Hyphen
- Arabic Literature Blog
- Jadaliyya
- Middle East Institute
- Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
- Islamic Heritage Project (Harvard)
- Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
- Brismes – British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
- Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
- Islamic Manuscript Association
- AMCA – Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey
- Melcom – Middle East Libraries Committee
New books
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Historien er nå : om folkemordet i Gaza og motstand i dystre tiderSapieżyńska, Ewa 1980- (Manifest, 2026)Mottatt i biblioteket 2026-10-06.
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When the world sleeps : stories, words, and wounds of PalestineAlbanese, Francesca 1977- (Other Press, 2026)Mottatt i biblioteket 2026-10-02.
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Occidentalism and the Egyptian novel : politics, poetics and modernityCasini, Lorenzo 1974- (IB Tauris, 2026)Mottatt i biblioteket 2026-10-02.
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