Featured Item in the Digital Library of the Middle East
- Vest, Gazni, Afghanistan Reverse sheepskin, chromed, with multi-colored embroidery and black karakul trim. Pushteenchah. Was L-857-1, Gift of Frank E. Patterson III, 1986, Penn Museum
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- Ethnographic Sound Archives Online: Archival Collection: The Mark Slobin Fieldwork Archive, Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972 One of only four Western music scholars allowed into Afghanistan in the late 1960s, Mark Slobin's body of work is a comprehensive documentation of music, culture, language and society in the Afghan North.
- Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
- Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, University of Nebraska, Lincoln The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University Library is the largest collection of Afghan materials in the country. The Collection is dedicated to the preservation of Afghanistan's history and cultural heritage for current and future generations of scholars. The majority of the materials are in English, Persian/Dari, and Pashto languages
- Afghan Media Resource Center The Afghan Media Resource Center collection includes audio, video and photographic footage, content and culturally unique materials on Afghanistan.
- At-Risk Afghanistan Web Archiving Project (ARAWA) : 2021 The UC Berkeley Library has archived web content that may be at risk of erasure under Taliban rule. These include websites, social media posts and news clips.
- Afghanistan Digital Library The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. In addition to books, this will eventually include all published serials, documents, pamphlets, and manuals.
- Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window Associated Press Images Collection is a searchable collection of recent and historical photos from the Associated Press, plus AP graphics, articles, and brief sound clips.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
- Music & Performing Arts (Audio & Video Collections) This link opens in a new window Music & Performing Arts' collections include American Music, Classical, Contemporary World, Jazz, Popular, Smithsonian's Global Sound, Ethnographic Sound Archives, American Film Scripts, Asian American Drama, Black Drama, North American Drama, and Theatre in Context. Search results include links to the full text of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (1997-2001), with additional audio examples.
Featured Digital Library
- Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) offers free and open access to the rich cultural legacy of the Middle East and North Africa by bringing together collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. Developed by an engineering team from CLIR and Stanford Libraries, the platform federates and makes accessible data about collections from around the world.
