Liaison
This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Arabic Studies plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library's first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison in charge: Cathy Reed
Research: Getting Started @ Swem
Database/Article Indexes
- General OneFile
- Covers a selection of news and scholarly journals in many academic disciplines, many are full text.
- MLA: Modern Language Association International Bibliography
- MLA is the most comprehensive database available for the study of language, literature and folklore. Coverage includes books, dissertations, journal articles, and essay articles in book collections.
- Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
- Periodicals Index Online
- This index is unique in its extensive retrospective and international coverage of the humanities and social sciences.
- WorldCat
- This catalog of the holdings of thousands of libraries world-wide is the most comprehensive database of book titles ever created.
- JSTOR
- Full text access to core journals in numerous academic disciplines, including language and literature. For each journal, coverage begins with the first issue.
- LEXIS-NEXIS
- Academic Universe provides full text access to a wide variety of news sources around the world. The Non-English Language part of the World News section is especially useful for reviews of modern novels, films and theater productions.
- Historical Abstracts
- This database of modern European and world history can provide many studies relevant to the context and development of important cultural and literary movements.
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Print Resources
Background Information
- Arabic literary culture, 500-925 / edited by Michael Cooperson and Shawkat M. Toorawa.
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Encyclopedia of Arabic literature, Meisami, Julie Scott, 1937-
- The encyclopaedia of Islam (CD-ROM title), Gibb, H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen), Sir, 1895-1971.
- The undergraduate's companion to Arab writers and their web sites, Straley, Dona S.
Dictionaries
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The Concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage,
Doniach, N. S. (Nakdimon Shabbethay).
- A dictionary of modern written Arabic
Wehr, Hans, 1909-
- al-Mawrid : q¯am¯us Inkl¯iz¯i-‘Arab¯i, Ba‘labakk¯i, Mun¯ir.
- al-Mawrid : q¯am¯us ‘Arab¯i-Inkil¯iz¯i , Ba‘labakk¯i, R¯u·h¯i.
- Elias' modern dictionary : Arabic-English, Elias A. (Elias Antoon).
- Elias' modern dictionary : English-Arabic, Elias, Elias A. (Elias Antoon)
Web Resources
General Cultural Sites:
- Arab Culture and Civilization
This website provides a broad range of information on the Arab world, including its history, literature, philosophy, popular culture, ethnicity and identity, language, art, society, and much more.
- http://thaqafa.sakhr.com/ (non-English)
- http://www.alwaraq.com/ (non-English)
- American Association of Teachers of Arabic (College of William & Mary)
This website provides many links to websites concerning Arab culture and news, as well as other online Arab learning resources. Additionally, the website includes information on the Arabic language and photos of original Arabic manuscripts.
- National Foreign Language Net: ArabicNet
This website provides numerous reviews of resources with information about the Arabic language.
- Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection: Arabic Literature
This website provides numerous examples of Arabic Literature and links to sites containing information on Arabic writing.
Language Textbooks and Centers :
News Sources:
- BBC Arabic.com (non-English)
- Aljazeera.net
English translation available.
- Dar Al-Hayat
This in the homepage of an Arabic news source. English translation available.
- Alhayat Aljadeeda Online (non-English)
- Asharq Alawsat
This website is the web page for the Asharq Alawsat Newspaper, self- proclaimed "leading Arabic International Daily". English translation available.
- Al-Ahram Weekly Online
English translation available.
- Al-Quds Al-Arabi (non-English)
- An-Nahar (non-English)
- Alarab Online
This is the homepage for the Arabic online newspaper Alarab. English translation available.
- www.alittihad.co.ae (non English)
- Arab News
Homepage of the self-proclaimed "Middle East's Leading English Language Daily"
- Abdul.com
This website contains links to various Middle East newspapers. Also included is the language in which the articles are written and the country of origin of the newspaper.
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Encyclopedias:
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