Overviews
Culture and History
- Encyclopedia of Islam
- Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
- Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East
- Middle East patterns: places, peoples, and politics
- Pop Culture Arab world! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle.
Cinema
- Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity.
- Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film.
- Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema.
Literature
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature
- A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires
- Modern Arabic literature
- Modern Arabic literature in translation: a companion
War
General
Visuals
Images
- ARTstor
- Picture Collection | Digital Collections (New York Public Library )
- Library of Congress
Streaming Videos
- Films from Kanopy
- Filmmakers Library Online (Award-winning documentaries)
- PBS Video Collection
**see also, Finding Videos
Meet Your Librarian
Faculty Publications
Professor Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh)
- Fantastic cohabitations: magical realism in Arabic and Hebrew and the politics of aesthetics
- Ali and his Russian mother
- Always Coca-Cola.
- دايمًا-- كوكا كول al-Ṭabʻah 1. ed., Bayrūt, Al-Dār Al-ʻArabīyah Lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn.
- علي وأمه الروسيّة : [رواية]al-Ṭabʻah 1. ed., Bayrūt, Al-Dār Al-ʻArabīyah Lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn.
Professor Kamran Rastegar
- Surviving Images: Cinema, War and Cultural Memory in the Middle East.
- Literary Modernity Between Europe and the Middle East: Transactions in Nineteenth-Century Arabic, Persian and English Literatures.
- Editor of special issue: "Authoring the Nahda: Writing the Arabic 19th Century" Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, 16:3, 2013.
- Personal Website
Books & Articles
Annotated Bibliographies
- Islamic studies
- Cinema and media studies
- Dissertations and Theses (Check out the bibliographies of recent dissertations on your topic.)
Use JumboSearch for Books 
Journal and Magazine Articles 
A. All subjects
B. Middle Eastern Studies
C. Other discipline/subject Databases
- In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
- Academic Search Premier (all subjects)
- Art & Architecture Source
- ATLA Religion
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Film & Television Literature Index
- Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
- LGBTQ+ Source
- MLA International Bibliography (literature, folklore and related studies.)
- Women's Studies International
A few notable journals
- International Journal of Middle East Studies
- Islamic Studiies
- Journal of Near Eastern Studies
- Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
- The Middle East Journal
- Muqarnas
- Journal of Arabic literature (970-2012) (1999 - present)
Newspaper Articles
Current
- Access World News (rich U. S.regional news)
- MidEastWire.com (2005 - present; daily news from newspapers, TV, and radio, originating in Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab media diaspora, Translated into English.)
- Factiva (more international coverage)
Historical Magazines
- American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
- British Humanities Index (1962- )
- British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)