Yemen Truce Monitor
Yemen Truce Monitor – ACLED (acleddata.com) Updated every Tuesday, this site tracks violations of the truce in Yemen which was agreed in April 2022. The site’s data are collected in partnership with the Yemen Data Project, which is tracking air raids during the truce. Subscribe for their weekly updates.
Oman Library at the Middle East Institute Digital Library
Oman Library at the Middle East Institute (MEI) digital collection includes rare books published from 1700 to 1921 in 7 Middle Eastern languages including Arabic, French and Turkish. All topics of Middle Eastern history, culture and politics are covered.
ACLED-Religion
ACLED-Religion A new project collecting data on religious repression, disorder and violence. Coverage begins at the end of January 2021. The pilot project currently collects real-time data on seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, and Yemen. Building off ACLED’s core methodology for monitoring global political violence and […]
Middle East Women’s Activism collection
A digital collection from SOAS. It comprises Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive, a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in […]
Arabian Gulf Digital Library
A collection from the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and National Archives UK which has text and images on the political, social and cultural history of the region. It includes some online exhibitions. One is on the discovery of oil. While many materials are offered in Arabic it does have UK government materials […]
Mapping Segregation: Google Maps and the Human Rights of Palestinians
Interesting report by 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement which argues that the boundaries and names used on Google Maps favour the cause of the Israeli government in the Palestinian area while neglecting to include road blocks and other barriers erected by Israel in the region. Download the full report and other materials […]
Digital Library of the Middle East
DLME: Digital Library of the Middle East In response to violence and cultural destruction in the region, the Council on Library and Information Resources in association with other institutions is aiming to create a portal providing a searchable catalogue of online materials on the middle East. These will include historical and cultural artefacts. There are […]
Six Day War Declassified Files.
The Israel State Archives has released a number of key documents on the Six Day War also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, which was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and […]
Do Middle Eastern men support Gender equality?
Download the results from The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES). It consists of surveys of nearly 10,000 men and women between the ages of 18 and 59 in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Palestine. Coordinated by Promundo and UN Women, in collaboration with local research partners, the results offer insights into their lives, expectations […]
Syrian Archive
This website hopes to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses in Syria. It is a collaborative effort from human rights activists which aims to create a systematic well catalogued collection of evidence. The website has a geographical mapping and searchable keyword database of violations. These record types of incidents some with shockingly disturbing […]
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