INSTITUTE OF MIDDLE EASTERN, ISLAMIC, AND DIASPORIC STUDIES

Resources on Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World

Contact:  AMEWS  Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies http://www.amews.org/

Journals:  Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/index.php?cPath=519_832

HAWWA:  Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic Worldhttp://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id10263.htm

Selected references to Women in the Middle East

http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/women.html

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/mkamp/UwyoW&I/W&IBib.htm

Women for Women's Human Rights (New Ways - Istanbul) http://www.wwhr.org/_homepage_en

Arts and Literature of the Middle East and the Islamic World is an enormous subject!

For Arabic Music http://www.aramusic.com/

Taqasim:  http://www.lyrichord.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=77

Shaheen  http://www.simonshaheen.com/

A.J. Racy, Making Music in the Arab World:  The Culture and Artistry of Tarab. http://www.amazon.fr/Making-Music-Arab-World-Artistry/dp/0521316855/sr=1-11/qid=1162060560/ref=sr_1_11/402-5518371-1838543?ie=UTF8&s=english-books

Virginia Danielson, "The Voice of Egypt." (Umm Kulthum)

http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Egypt-Egyptian-TwentiethEthnomusicology/dp/0226136124/sr=1-4/qid=1162060928/ref=sr_1_4/102-8904913-0726542?ie=UTF8&s=books

Persian Music http://www.persianartmusic.com/

Colors of Enchantment http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Enchantment-Theater-Visual-Middle/dp/9774246071

Saudi Aramco World (frequently runs articles on the arts) http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200605/

Alif:  Journal of Comparative Poetics http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/alif/

AlJadid Magazine http://www.aljadid.com/about.html

Art and Photography http://www.al-bab.com/arab/visual/art.htm

Women Artists in Diaspora

http://universes-in-universe.de/islam/eng/2003/01/shatat/index.html

Basim Magdi  http://www.npgallery.com/cur_exhibit.php