Geography, Demographics, and Resources

Links

This web site aims to bring a wide variety of resources on Arab culture and civilization to your computer, but there is much more online. This list includes a number of other sites that you may wish to visit. For additional print resources, consult the supplemental bibliography.

Maps

Maps Relating to Islam's Historical Development
Maps of the Islamic World Across the Centuries.

Middle East Maps from the University of Texas library

Maps of the Islamic World Across the Centuries

MidEast Web Maps

Atlas of the Orient
A site including country maps and historical maps for the whole region.

Maps of the Middle East with clickable links to information on each country

Demographics and Resources

Med-Hycos
A site that deals with water resources in the Mediterranean region.

Arab Human Development Report
Reports published in 2002 and 2003 by the United Nations Human Development Program. The Executive Summary of the 2003 report outlines their findings.

Economist Intelligence Unit: Views Wire
Economic news from Africa and the Middle East

The US and the Middle East: Energy Dependence, Demographics, and the Myth of Oil Wealth
A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies from this think tank "dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on—and policy solutions to—current and emerging global issues."

Arab Social Science Research
"ASSR is the network engine of the Arab Institute for Studies and Communication (AISC). Founded in 1998, by a group of senior Arab social scientists, AISC is dedicated to develop research organizations and assist researchers in the Arab world and beyond."

Water in the Middle East
A list of Middle East and Jewish Studies Resources from Columbia University

Middle East Economic Survey
Founded in 1957, the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) is a weekly newsletter that provides a comprehensive source of news and analysis of energy, economic and political developments in Middle East countries.

Database for Arab World Economy and Finance Sites
A list that can be sorted by country, region, economic category, language, etc.

Middle East and North Africa Data Profile
Statistics on the region from the World Band Group. Also available are country reports.

ArabDecision.org
"The objective of the Arab Decision site is to make available to citizens and general public useful information on the Institutions of the Arab World."

Economics and Oil
Links to resources on Economics and Oil from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,"a public educational foundation dedicated to scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests in the Middle East."

OPEC
Web page for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Country and Regional Information

The Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution has produced a great deal of material on American policy in the Middle East and Arab World. This link is to the Foreign Policy section of the site.

ArabNet
Individual country information.

The CIA Fact book
Statistical information about the nations of the world

Lonely Planet's clickable guide to the Middle East

Lonely Planet's clickable guide to Africa

Web site for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This site includes many reports on particular issues in the Arab World such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the problem of Iraq, etc.

Al Jazeera.net: Iraq Under Occupation
A "Special Report" from the controversial Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera, this site contains extensive information on Iraq, its history and resources.

Geography

The Arab World Geographer
Web site for a scholalry journal

Middle East Seismological Forum
An online forum for research into seismology in the region.

The North Africa Research Group GeoNet
"This site aims to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and information about geological research and exploration in North Africa. Geoscientists from all institutions - academia and industry - are invited to participate." The North Africa Research Group is a collaborative of four universities sponsored by a number of oil companies.