The Middle East Digital Humanities Digest

Jāmiʻal-Makhṭūṭāt al-Islāmīyah is a site that compiles and offers direct links to an extensive rich collection of Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts. One can easily browse the collection either by manuscript title or by location through the name of the institution that houses the manuscript. The interface is only available in Arabic which can be considered an obstacle, yet this project is quite useful and worth a try. 

# dariahTeach is an open source, multilingual, community-driven platform for high quality teaching and training materials for the digital arts and humanities. If you are familiar with digital humanities then you must have heard of terms like text encoding and TEI. In case you are intrigued by these terms and want to learn more about them and may be take some first steps towards doing some text encoding yourself then you should check this series of educational videos provided by Daria Teach about "Digital Scholarly Editions: Manuscripts, Texts, and TEI Encoding. They are extremely helpful.

According to a recent post from the "Library of Congress International Collections" Facebook page: The African & Middle Eastern Division has digitized the Eltaher Collection’s 100+ Palestinian Pamphlets!  These documents relate, in some detail, to the British Mandate in Palestine (1923-1948). They cover the impact of the 1917 Balfour declaration and the Mandate on Palestine, and the way in which they enabled the Zionist movement to establish the Palestinian state in 1948. Read more about the collection and the digitized pamphlets here:  https://www.loc.gov/…/elta her-colle…/about-this-collection/… .  Muhammad Ali Eltaher (1896-1974) was an author, journalist, and newspaper editor. The Eltaher Collection consists of more than 2,000 items in various formats, including books, pamphlets, photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings. Most of the collection is in Arabic, with some materials in English. The collection documents the history of the Arab world

Great news to lovers of the art of photography and particularly "Arab Photography" .  The Arab Image Foundation, Beirut’s pioneering non-profit archive of Middle Eastern photography, has launched an  online platform  that makes 22,000 images from the collection accessible and searchable for the first time. Read more at this article  from The Art Newspaper. Selim Abu Izzedine’s Portrait of a woman on a horse (1900s, Egypt) has been digitally converted from a gelatin silver negative on glass Faysal Abu Izzeddin Collection; Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation