ARTS & HUMANITIES

General | Radio, Television and Film | Language, Literature and Poetry
Art and Architecture | Music and Songs | Numistatics (Coins)
Pictures | Recipies

GENERAL

• Al-Mashriq: The Levant Cultural Multimedia Server
• Arabian Culture and Customs
• Iranian Cultural & Information Center
• Café Arabica

RADIO, TELEVISION & FILM

• Arab Film Distribution Home Page
• The Centennial of Arab Cinema
• Cinema Iran
• Cinema Weekly -- in Farsi
• Global Issues: Middle East Studies -- A list of documentary films from the Filmaker's Library
• Jewish Film Archive Online
• Movies on Every Screen -- Arabic film site
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, & POETRY

• American Association of Teachers of Arabic
• Babel: Arabic online course
• Al Kitaab: A series of textbooks for Arabic
• Kelk -- Persian calligraphy
• Learning Practical Turkish
• Persian Poets, Poetry, and Poetic Art
• The Poetry of Nizar Kabbani
• The Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
• Turkish Poetry Homepage
• Turkish Proverbs and Folk Sayings
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Languages (from The Ethnologue Database)

ART & ARCHITECTURE

• Islamic and Arabic Arts and Architecture
• The Architecture of Isfahan
• Turkish Architecture

MUSIC & SONGS

• Hashim al-Alawi -- Arabic influenced instrumental music (official web site)
• Ragheb Alama
• The Arabic Music Network
• 6arab.com -- Arabic Music Site
• Arabic Music Internet Reference requires Arabic - capable browser
• Asmahan
• Farid El Atrache -- official web site
• Omar Bashir -- 'oud musician (offical)
• Saadoun al-Bayati -- official web site
• Amr Diab Online -- unofficial web site
• Fairouz
• Fairuz, Neighbour of the Moon
• Diana Haddad Online
• Introduction to Raï Music of Algeria
• Kalimat.Net
• Al-Mashriq Music and Songs
• Gina Moheb
• Munir Bashir Oud and Traditional Music Art Foundation
• Ziad Rahbani
• Siavash -- U.S. Based Persian pop singer (official)
• George Wassouf
• Rec.music.arabic Newsgroup

Numistatics

• Coins of the Seljuqs of Rum
• Early Coins of Bilad al-Sham
• Early Islamic Coins
• Golden Horde Coinage
• Islamic Coins Group
• Umayyad Dirhams and their Mints

PICTURES

• Middle East Photo Archive (University of Chicago Library)

RECIPES

• Food and Recipes (Levant Cultural Multimedia Server)
• The Middle Eastern Cookbook
• Nadia's Middle Eastern Cooking Site
• Searchable Online Archive of Recipies Including Middle Eastern recipies.
• Turkish Cuisine