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Media Resources on Middle East & Islamic Studies

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to over 70,000 video titles from numerous unique content partners including Sony Pictures Classics, Film Platform, Filmakers Library, Milestone Films, Microtraining Associates, PBS, and many more. Subject coverage is broad. Interactive transcripts and closed captions are available.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Contains over a million images documenting artistic traditions across many cultures and time periods. Updated frequently, please check back often for updated searches & collections. Note: ARTstor users must create a free account to save and share images. Users must turn off the popup blocker.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming video platform, with films spanning the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, Economics and Health.

Abdul Hamid II Collection, Library of Congress
This monumental collection portrays the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II. The 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893.
Arab Image Foundation
Established in Beirut in 1997 the Arab Image collects and preserves photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora.
Archnet
Archnet is a globally-accessible, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.
Gertrude Bell Archive
The Gertrude Bell collection comprises books on Arabic and Persian languages and on the histories of Arabia, and the Near and Middle East.

AP Images This link opens in a new window
Collects historical and contemporary imagery from Associated Press with a 50 million image print and negative archive including graphics and audio clips.

Middle Eastern Film Posters Digitization Initiative, Princeton University
Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection was acquired in Lebanon in 2008 and is comprised of 1,748 posters and 768 lobby cards.
Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
New York Public Library offers several thousand prints and photographs contained in works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
Middle East Photograph Archive, University of Chicago
An archive of early photographs of the Middle East, which date to the second half of the nineteenth century.
Palestine Poster Project Archives
An individual's collection of Palestine posters.
Tehran Propaganda Murals
This selection of over 130 propaganda murals photographed in Tehran
Travelers in the Middle East Archive
A digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East.
UNRWA
This archive consists of more than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videocassettes.