A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures is a groundbreaking view of Islam that goes beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, presented in an interactive, open-access born-digital format.

ARCHNET, an Open Access, intellectual resource focused on the built environment of Muslim societies.

The Arab American Historical Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote research, preservation and dissemination of Arab American history and culture, enhancing and building better understanding of Americans of Arab descent.

The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world.

Diwan, a blog from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program and the Carnegie Middle East Center, provides insight into and analysis of the region.

Drawing on the expertise of a team of Carnegie scholars—both in the Middle East and in Washington—this blog will offer reactions to breaking news, interviews with personalities and political figures, and updates on Carnegie research projects.

The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

Collection of primary source documents in Islamic history. Part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project at Fordham University.

A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.

A compilation of resources on Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe.

This site, with its biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science is designed for students and everyone interested in the history of Islamic and European culture.

A database of Persian, Ottoman, Arab and Mughal paintings, illuminations, decorated Qur'an pages, and book bindings from over 310 collections worldwide. Viewer must register to access the databases, but registration is free.

The special collections at LAU serves as a repository for collections relating to the Lebanese social, cultural and intellectual life.

The foundations of Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection was acquired in Lebanon in 2008 and is comprised of 1,748 posters and 768 lobby cards. Egyptian posters predominate with 1,474, reflecting the unchallenged prominence of Egypt in the production of Arabic feature films. Some 150 posters are for Lebanese films, 113 Syrian and 11 Iraqi.

The purpose of the posters was to advertise coming attractions, and they represent films produced from 1935 to 2007. Most of the posters are on standard Arab single-sheet size paper. However, many are on non-standard sheets. Similarly, there are posters that are composed on multiple sheets, including some on twenty-four sheets meant for display on the side of multi-story buildings.

The lobbies cards, also for coming attractions and meant for display in theater lobbies, are composed of multiple still shots taken on movie sets and affixed to standard–sized cardboard. They represent 172 films produced in Egypt (145), Lebanon (13) and Syria (14) from 1964 to 2007. The majority of the growing collection has been digitized and is accessible to scholars and students through DPUL.

The study of Middle Eastern popular visual culture is still in its formative stage; it is hoped that Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Poster Collection and its availability online will contribute to the efflorescence of this burgeoning field