Electronic resources for Middle East Studies

  • ALMANHAL
    • Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider. Al Manhal, the world’s leading Arabic electronic information provider, is trusted by over 400 of the Arab and Islamic world’s leading publishers and over 500 universities. Full-text searchable database of scholarly and scientific publications from the Arab and Islamic world. Al Manhal combines deep publishing and library expertise with best-in-class technology to enable university, government, corporate, school and public library users to efficiently discover and access thousands of eBooks, eJournals, eTheses and, intelligence reports, from the Arab and Islamic worlds’ leading publishers and research institutes. AUC subscription package includes AlManhal Books,Journals, MESSO Collection and eDissertations Collection.

  • Arabic Literature of Africa Online
    • Arabic Literature of Africa Online (ALAO) is a bio-bibliography on the Arabic manuscript tradition in the African continent, which continued well into the 20th century CE. It offers authoritative information about African authors, the texts they wrote in Arabic, the manuscripts in which these texts are found, and the locations of these manuscripts, together with bibliographical references to the literature. Arabic Literature of Africa Online complements Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) and is an indispensable reference work for students of Islamic cultures in Africa and of Islamic manuscripts in general.

  • AskZad
    • AskZad is a full Arabic language index since 1998- indexing more than 1500 newspaper and magazine besides a partial index of additional 30,000 news-related internet sites.

  • CAPMAS
    • Statistical data for Egypt and the Middle East.

  • CEIC Data Manager
    • CEIC Data Manager, which loads very slowly, includes accurate and timely economic, sector and financial data from around the globe. Guest login is allowed, yet Sign up is conditioned for subscribers to complete experience with CEIC core features in collaboration and data alerting.

  • Classic Arabic Texts Online
    • Classic Arabic Texts Online offers approx. 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text searchable format and accessible from one single point of entry.

  • Confidential Print: Middle East, 1834-1966*
    • Confidential Print: Middle East , 1839-1969 is the second of our complete online series of ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office since c1820.

  • eBook Arabic Collection
    • Serving the countries and territories of the Arabic League and beyond, this Middle Eastern collection of more than 5,600 multidisciplinary e-books provides content covering a broad range of subjects from noteworthy publishers as well as award-winning Arabic authors. Comes as Complimentary/free with ebook University subscription.

  • eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
    • AUC Library has purchased perpetual access to 366 ebooks & 3490 freely accessible ones. The collection provides full text books on gender studies, gender studies in the Middle East, and American Studies.

  • Encyclopaedia Islamica Online
    • Encyclopaedia Islamica Online offers the Western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam.

  • Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition)
    • The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live.

  • Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three
    • The Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. “

  • Foreign Office Files For The Middle East (1971-1974)
    • An invaluable tool for understanding the modern Middle East, students and researchers can use these detailed documents to explore historical relationships between Middle East nations and superpowers. Users will discover how the Cold War impacted on regional politics, study policies dictating the international arms trade, and observe how the newly gained oil wealth in the Persian Gulf changed the oil market forever. With many documents created by diplomats and civil servants working in the regions’ most politically sensitive regions, users can delve into the resources’ in-depth analyses, annual reviews and diplomatic correspondence to examine key conflicts, such as the Arab-Israel war.

  • Gale Research Complete
    • Gale Reference Complete includes 12 million pages of Archives, 28,000+ Academic+ General Journals, 357,000 Literature Primary Sources , 55 Gale EBooks and 2300 world Newspapers and Media. 'Literature Resource Center' was upgraded to 'Gale Reference Complete' as of November 2017.

  • GlobalCapital
    • GlobalCapital is the voice of the global capital markets, providing the most recent and up-to-date news, backed by informed opinion, educated analysis and breadth of focus. The AUC has access to Emerging Markets, which consists of the sub-sections of both News: All Emerging Markets News, CEE, Middle East, Islamic Finance, Africa, Latin America, Asia and People & Markets and Data: All Emerging Markets Data, Bond Comments, League Tables, Sukuk Database, Top Sukuk Obligors, Top Sukuk Bookrunners & Islamic Finance Glossary.

  • JSTOR
    • JSTOR is a full-text archival database consisting of the complete backfiles of important scholarly journals. It does NOT include publications within the last 2 to 5 years. AUC library acquired JSTOR EBA, provided access to all backlist ebook publication prior to 2019.

  • Literature Resource Center
    • Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database. It offers the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a large collection of full-text critical and literary analysis.

  • Middle East Online: Iraq, 1914-1974*
    • British Government files covering the period from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the new state, to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.

  • Middle Eastern Manuscripts (MEMO) 1 : Pioneer Orientalist
    • This collection consists of the Arabic manuscripts of Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597) and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667) from the Leiden University Library, one of Europe’s top repositories of Oriental manuscripts. These three collections are Leiden’s oldest core collections of Arabic manuscripts. The Golius collection is particularly famous for its manuscripts on Islamic science.

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    • Oxford Scholarship Online currently provides AUC with unlimited access to over 20,000 Oxford University Press books, including some of their latest published titles and prestigious series. These titles cover all subjects and disciplines due to the EBA subscription in 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online is a searchable, full-text database of classic scholarly books from Oxford University Press online up to and including Jan 2009. AUC Libraries provide access to the collections Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology. In addition AUC Library has access to Biology (to 2018),Economics and Finance (to 2018) plus Apr.2019-Mar.2021 updates, Law Top Up 2018-19 (105 titles) plus 2019-20 & 2020-21 updates, Literature Apr 2018- Mar 2021 updates, History top up 2017-19 (232 titles), Psychology April 2019-Mar.2021 updates and Religion (to 2016) & top up 2017-19(270 titles), Social Work (to 2018). *Availability online is based on the year of Oxford Scholarship online publication and not the print publication.

  • Revues.org**
    • Revues.org est une plateforme de revues et collections de livres en sciences humaines et sociales, ouverte aux collections désireuses de publier en ligne du texte intégral. Revues.org construit un espace dédié à la valorisation de la recherche, publiant en libre accès des dizaines de milliers de documents scientifiques.