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A Research Guide to Middle Eastern Studies: Newspapers and Serials

An introduction to resources both at Penn Libraries and freely available elsewhere online.

Iraqi Periodicals at Penn

A number of important Iraqi periodical publications are included in the Middle East Collection of the Library, including a number of important cultural and academic journals. Unless otherwise noted, all items are located in Van Pelt Library

  • Al-Adib al-Mu‘asir
    • Holdings: v.3:no.13 (Sept. 1975), v.4:no.16/18 (Mar./June 1976)-v.5:no.19/23 (Sept. 1976/May 77), v.6:no.27 (Jan.-Mar. 1978)
    • Location: LIBRA PJ7501.A35
  • Dad
    • Holdings: al-Juz' 2 (Kanun al-Thani 1989)-present
    • Location: PJ6001.D333
  • The Iraq Directory: A General and Commercial Directory of Iraq
    • Holdings: 1936
    • Location: 915.6 Ir13 v.1
  • Al-Katib al-‘Arabi
    • Holdings: yr.1 (1981)-yr.4 (1986)
    • Location: PJ7625.K37
  • Kitab
    • Holdings: v.9: no.8-9 (1975: Aug-Sept.1975),v.9:no.11-12 (1975: Nov.-Dec.)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 K52
  • al-Kitab al-Sanawi li-Ahdath ‘Am (=Yearbook of events)
    • Holdings: 1987
    • Location: LIBRA DS326.K583
  • Lughat al-‘Arab
    • Holdings: v.1 (1911)-v.9 (1931)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 L8
    • Additional Option: v. 1 (1911/19112)
  • Majallat Adab al-Mustansirnyah
    • Holdings: v.29 (1997), v.31 (1998)-v.32 (1998)
    • Location: LIBRA AS589.J35 A25
  • Majallat al-Majma‘ al-‘Ilmi al-‘Iraqi, Hay'at al-Lughah al-Suryaniyah
    • Holdings: v.17-19
    • Location: PJ3001.M353
  • Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab (Baghdad)
    • Holdings: v.5 (1962), v.7 (1964)-v.9 (1966)
    • Location: LIBRA 378.567 B146J
  • Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab wa-al-‘Ulum (Baghdad)
    • Holdings: v.1 (1956)-v.3 (1958)
    • Location: LIBRA 378.567 B146J
  • Majallat Kulliyat al-Shari‘ah (Baghdad)
    • Holdings: v.1(1965)-v.4(1967/68)
    • Location: D199.3.A76
  • Majma‘ al-‘Ilmi al-‘Iraqi
    • Holdings: v.6 (1959)-v.16 (1968),v.18 (1969), v.28 (1977), v.30 (1979)-v.34 (1983),v.36 (1985)-v.41 (1990)
    • Location: LIBRA AS589.M3
  • Majmu‘ah al-Ihsa'iyah al-Sanawiyah al-‘Ammah [Statistical Abstract]
    • Holdings: 1944-1965, 1968-1970
    • Location: HA1950.I75 A3
  • al-Mawrid
    • Holdings: v.4, no.3 (1975)-v.7 (1978)
    • Location: DS36.8.M39
  • al-Naft wa-al-Tanmiyah
    • Holdings: v.1 (1976)-v.4 (1978/1979), v.9 (1984)-v.14 (1989)
    • Location: LIBRA HD9560.1.N24
  • Sumer (Baghdad: Directorate General of Antiquities)
    • Holdings: Van Pelt: v.1 (1945)-v.13 (1957); Center for Advanced Judaic Studies: v.14 (1958),v.25 (1967),v.27 (1971),v.29 (1973),v.32 (1976); Museum: v.1 (1945)-v.36 1980),v.38 (1982)-v.50:nos.1/2 (1999/2000)
    • Location: DS67.S76
  • Taqrir ‘an a‘mal Mudiriyat al-Rayy al-‘Ammah (Baghdad)
    • Holdings: 1946:Apr.1/1949: Mar.31
    • Location: LIBRA HD1741.I73.I75
  • al-Thaqafah
    • Holdings: v.5 (1975)-v.7 (1977)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6T513
  • al-Turath al-Sha‘bi
    • Holdings: Van Pelt: v.6, no.5(1975 inc.), v.7(1976), v.8(1977 inc.), v.9, no.9(1978),1989-1990; High-Density Storage: v.6:no.5-12 (1975), v.7:no.1-4 (1976)-v.7:no.5-12 (1976), v.8:no.1-6 (1977)-v.8:no.10-12 (1977), v.9:no.1-3 (1978)-v.9:no.7-9 (1978)
    • Location: GR295.I7 T87

Ottoman Periodicals at Penn

Until 1928, the Turkish Language was written using the Arabic-based script and is known commonly as Ottoman Turkish. Penn Libraries are fortunate to have a number of serial titles from this era that are important for researchers of 18th and 19th century Turkish history and culture, as listed below:
  • Akmulla
    • Holdings: (1911-1916)
    • Location: Van Pelt Microfilms cont 753
  • Alay
    • Holdings: Adet 1-12 (1920)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.A438
  • Salname-yi Vilayet-i Ankara [Ankara Vilâyetine Mahsus Salname]
    • Holdings: (1891)
    • Location: LIBRA. DS51.A6.A553
  • Aşiyan
    • Holdings: v.1-2 (1908-1909)
    • Location: LIBRA. DR401.A85
    • Additional Option: no. 14-26 (1906-1907)
       
  • Berk
    • Holdings: Cilt 1 (1886/1888)
    • Location: LIBRA. AP95.T8 B475
    • Additional Option: Cilt 1, cuz 1-12 (1886-1888)
       
  • Darülfunun Edebiyat Fakultesi Mecmuası
    • Holdings: Cilt 1-6, Cilt 7 (1929)- Cilt 8 (1932)
    • Location: LIBRA AS348.I77 A25
    • Additional Options: v. 2, no. 3-5 (1922); v. 3, no. 1 (1923)
  • Donanma
    • Holdings: Sayi 1 (1326 [1910-1911])- sayi 128 (1331 [1915-1916])
    • Location: LIBRA DR401.D6
  • Eşref
    • Holdings: Adet 1-26; Mar. 18-Ağ. 23, 1325 [1909])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.E773
    • Additional Options: Adet 1-26 (1909); no. 27-52 (ser. 2, 1-26, Sept. 1909-Feb. 1910)
  • Güneş
    • Holdings: Sayi 1-17 (1927)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.G853
    • Additional Option: vol. 1 (1302 [1885-1886)
  • Hâle
    • Holdings: Année 1, no. 1-3 (Dec. 1909-Feb. 1910)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.H253
  • Halk Bilgisi Mecmuası
    • Holdings: (1928)
    • Location: LIBRA. GR1.H35
  • Harb Mecmuası
    • Holdings: Y. 1-3, Sayi 1-27; Kasim 1331-Haz. 1334 [Nov. 1915-June 1918])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.H273
  • Hayat
    • Holdings: Cilt 1, Sayi 1 (Kanun-i Evvel 1926)- Cilt 6, Sayi 146 (1929)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.H38
  • Hazine-i Evrak
    • Holdings: Numara 1-48 (Mayis 1, 1297 [May 1881-1882])
    • Location: LIBRA PL201.H3 B44314
    • Additional Option: no. 1-48 (1881-1882)
  • Hazine-i Fünûn
    • Holdings: no. 1-52 (1893-1894)
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.H384
  • İstişare
    • Holdings: v.1,no.1-no.25 (1908- )
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.I85
  • Karagöz
    • Holdings: Adet 1 (Ağustos 1324 [i.e. Aug. 1908])- Adet 728 (Şubat 1330 [i.e. Feb. 1915]))
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.K373
  • Karagoz'ün Salnamesi
    • Holdings: 1st (1910)-3rd (1912)
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.K37
  • Kastamonu Vilayeti Salnamesi
    • Holdings: 16. defa (1310 [i.e. 1892])
    • Location: Rare Books DS51.K2 K37
    • Additional Option: 16 defa & 18 defa
  • Kavanin ve Nizamat ve Mukarrerat-i Maliye Mecmuası
    • Holdings: Cilt 3 [1913 or 1914]; Cilt 6 [1918-1919]
    • Location: LIBRA K11.A826
  • Maarif
    • Holdings: 2 Sene, Numara 53/104 (1309/1311 [1892/1893])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio AP95.T8 M237
  • Mahfel
    • Holdings: Adet 1-68 (Zilkade 1338 [1920]-Ramazan 1344 [Mart 1926])
    • Location: LIBRA BP1.M28
  • Malûmat
    • Holdings: Yil 1-2, num. 1-72; 23. Mayıs, 1311-1313 [May 1895-1897])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.M258
  • Manzara
    • Holdings: 1. sene, nèusha 1-16 (Mar.-Oct. 1887)
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.M268
    • Additional Option: 1, no. 1-16 (1887)
  • Mecmua-i Âsar
    • Holdings: Yil 1 (1299/1300=1882/1883)
    • Location: LIBRA PL101.M435
  • Mecmua-i Muallim
    • Holdings: Yil 1-2, num. 1-58; (30 Evlûl, 1303 - 3 Teşrin, 1304 [Sept. 1887-Nov. 1888])
    • Location: Rare Books PL201.M43
    • Additional Option: no. 1-58 (1887-1888)
  • Mecmua-yı Ebüzziya
  • Mihrab
    • Holdings: no.1-16 (1339-1340 [1923-1924]), no.17-28(1340-1341 [1924-1925])
    • Location: LIBRA DR401.M5
  • Millet = Narod
    • Holdings: (1906)
    • Location: Van Pelt Microfilm news 650
  • Millî Tetebbûlar Mecmuasi
    • Holdings: Cilt 1 no.1-no.5; sayi 1 (Mart 1331 [1916])
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.M57
    • Additional Option: 2 no. 1
  • Mirat-i Âlem
    • Holdings: sayi 1-24 (1882); sayi 1-12 (1884)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.M578
  • el-Mirsâd
    • Holdings: num. 1-25 (Mar.-Ag. 1307 [i.e. 1891])
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.M5784
  • Muharrir
    • Holdings: Cilt 1, no. 1-8 (1292 [1875]-1295 [1878])
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.T8 M843
    • Additional Option: no. 1-8
  • Mulkiye
    • Holdings: no.1 (1324[1908]) - no.30(1327[1911])
    • Location: Rare Books DR401 .M8
  • Musavver Muhit = Mouhit
    • Holdings: num. 1-22 (Oct. 23, 1324 [i.e. 1908]-Mar. 26, 1325 [i.e. 1909])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.M873
  • Musavver Nevsal-i Osmanî
    • Holdings: Defa 2 (1326 [1910])- Defa 4 (1328 [1912])
    • Location: LIBRA AY1187.M872
    • Additional Options: v. 1; v.2; v.4
  • Nevsal-i Osmanî
    • Holdings: Defa 1 (1325 [1909])
    • Location: LIBRA AY1187.M872
  • Osmanli Tarih ve Edebiyat Mecmuasi
    • Holdings: Sene 1, no.1-no.31 (Mart 1334 [1918])
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.O84
  • Resimli Gazete
    • Holdings: Adet 1.-104. (Mar. 14, 1307 [i.e. 1891]-Mar. 11, 1309 [i.e. 1893])
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.R374
    • Additional Options: v. 1; v.2-3; v.4-5
  • Salname-i Servet-i Fünûn
    • Holdings: (1326 [1910])
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.T8 S356
    • Additional Options: no. 1 (1908); no. 2 (1909); no. 4 (1911)
  • Sâlnâme-i Vilâyet-i Sûriye
    • Holdings: Defa 1 (1285=1868),Defa 4 (1289=1872) Defa 8 (1293=1876), Defa 12 (1297=1879), Defa 17 (1302=1885)
    • Location: Rare Books DS97.5.S964
  • Şehbal
    • Holdings: num. 1-100 (1. Mart 1325 - 10 Temmuz 1330 [ Mar. 1909-July 1914])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.S342
  • Servet-i Fünûn
  • Şiir ve Tefekkür
    • Holdings: Adet 1-2 (Ağustos 20-27 1325 [i.e. 1909])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.S457
  • Sirat-ı Mustakım
    • Holdings: Cilt 1-2, Adet 1-26 (Aug. 14, 1324 [1908]-Feb. 5, 1325 [1909])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.S472
  • Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Salnamesi
    • Holdings: (1925/1926)
    • Location: Rare Books DR401.T876
  • Ulûm-i İktisadiye ve İçtimai-ye Mecmuası
  • Ümrân
    • Holdings: Yil 1, Sayi 1-13, 17 (21 Evlûl 1303 -30. Nisan, 1304 [Sept. 1887-April 1888])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.U572
    • Additional Options: v.1, no. 1-26
  • Urfa Hakkında Tabii, Coğrafı, İctimaı, İktisadi, Tarihi, Mulki Malumati Cami Salname
    • Holdings: (1927)
    • Location: LIBRA DS51.S265 U743
  • Volkan Gazetesi
    • Holdings: (1908-1909)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.T8 V644
  • Yeni Fikir
    • Holdings: Sayi 1-34 (1925-28)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.T8 Y465
  • Yeni Mecmua
    • Holdings: No. 1-52 (12 Temmuz [July] 1917 - 13 Temmuz [July] 1918)
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.Y355
  • Yeni Tasvir-i Efkâr
    • Holdings: Num. 1-90, 96-180 (Mayis 31-Teşrin S. 1325 [May-Nov. 1909])
    • Location: Rare Books Folio DR401.Y358
  • Ziraat Gazetesi
    • Holdings: Sene 3 (1300-1301 [1882-1884])
    • Location: LIBRA HD2056.7.A594

Pre-1919 Egyptian Newspapers and Serials

One of the highlights of the Middle East Collection at Penn Libraries includes a variety of newspapers and serials from Egypt prior to the 1919 Revolution. These include newspapers, literary journals, medical journals, publications of the then just-founded Egyptian Museum, publications of Christian and Muslim organizations, and other topics and areas of interest to the researcher of Egyptian society and culture from this period.
  • Anis al-jalis: majallah nisa’iyah ‘ilmiyah adabiyah fukahiyah
  • Annales du Service des Antiquites de l’Egypte
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1-v.61, v.64, v.66
    • Location: Museum DT57.A24
    • Additional Options: v.1-19 (1900-1920)
  • ‘Ayn shams
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1900-1901)-v.4 (1903-1904)
    • Location: LIBRA DT57.A972
  • al-Bayan
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (Mar. 1, 1897)-v.1, no.18 (Aug. 16, 1898) Location: AP95.A6 D582
    • Additional Option: v. 1 (1897-1898)
  • al-Bayan
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Aug. 1911)-v.9, no.5 (Nov. 1921)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 B39
  • Bibliotheque d’etude
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: t. 1-15, 17-39, 11, 16, 40-42, 45-56, 59-65, 67-78, 81-110, 113-122, 127 (1910- )
    • Location: Museum PJ25.B6; 913.32; Van Pelt Library (t. 11 only) PJ25.B6
    • Additional Options: Similar to Above
  • Bulletin [Societe archeologique d’Alexandrie]
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: no.1(1898)-no.20(1924)
    • Location: Museum DT73.A4 A2
    • Additional Options: n.1-5; n.6-8; n.9-15
  • Bulletin de l’Institut Egyptien
  • Bulletin de l’Institut Francais d’Archeologie Orientale
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: t.1 (1901)-t.103
    • Location: Museum DT57.F81
    • Additional Options: t.1-24 (1901-1924)
  • Courier de l’Egypte (1798-1801)
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1798-1801)
    • Location: Van Pelt Microfilm 148
    • Additional Options: n.1-39, n.40-78, n.79-116
  • La Decade Egyptienne
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1799-1800)
    • Location: LIBRA DT103.D4
    • Additional Options: v.1, v.2, v.3
  • al-Diya’
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1898)-v.8 (1906)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 D58
    • Additional Options: v.1-8
  • L’Egypte Contemporaine
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: Annee 1 (1910)- Annee 23 (1932)
    • Location: Microfilm cont. 147
  • Additional Options: 1910-1924 & various years from 1924-1932
  • Al-Fatah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1892:Nov./1894:Mar.)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 F38
  • al-Fawayid al-Sihhiyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Dec. 1891/Nov. 1892)-v.2, no.6 (June 1893)
    • Location: Van Pelt Library RA773.F38
  • al-Ghazalah: Jaridah Adabiyah Fukahiyah Siyasiyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (v.1, no.1 (1896)-v.1, no.24 (1897)
    • Location: LIBRA AP115.G43
  • al-Haqq.
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (1894)-v.1, no.50 (1895)
    • Location: LIBRA BX130.H38
  • al-Hidayah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Feb. 1910:Feb.)-v.4 (Oct. 1913)
    • Location: LIBRA BP1.H52
  • al-Hikmah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (June 1904 – June 1905)
    • Location: LIBRA R98.7.A6.H45
  • al-Hilal
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (v.1 (1892/1893)-v.13 (1904/1905), v.15 (1906)-v.19 (1910/11), v.20 (1911), v.23 (1914), v.29 (1920)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 H5
    • Additional Options: v.1-31 (1892-1923)
  • Himarat Munyati
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1897)- v.6:no.1-4 (1908)
    • Location: LIBRA AP115.H56
  • al-Islam
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.10 (Oct. 1911), v.11, no.11 (Nov. 1913)
    • Location: LIBRA BP1.I58
  • al-Karmah: Majallah Diniyah Adabiyah Tarikhiyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Sept 1904)-v.8, no.4 (Apr 1914), v.9 (1923)-v.12, no.7 (1926:July)
    • Location: LIBRA BX130.K37
  • al-Lata’if
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1886)- v.9 (1896)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 L38
  • al-Majallah al-Misriyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (June, 1900)- v.3, no.18 (June, 1909)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 M256
  • Majallat Ra‘amsis
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Feb. 1912)- v.16, no.3 (1929)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 M258
  • Majallat al-Sayyidat wa-al-Rijal
    • Pre-1919 holdings: v.8, no.1 (Nov 1926)- v.8, no.10 (Sept 1927)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 M2579
  • Majallat al-Shita’: Majallah Adabiyah ‘Ilmiyah Tarikhiyah Fukahiyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1-2, 3-4 (1906)
    • Location: LIBRA PJ7501.M35
    • Additional Option: Sanah 1, juz’ 4 (1906)
  • al-Manar
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1315/16=1897)- v.20 (1335=1917), v.25 (1342=1924/25)- v.32 (1350/51=1931/32)
    • Location: Van Pelt Library BP1.M35
    • Additional Options: v.1-19 (1898/99-1916/17); 1899-140
  • al-Manzum
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (Nov 1892)- v.1, no.24 (Nov 1893)
    • Location: Van Pelt Library PJ7541.M37
  • Makarim al-Akhlaq al-Islamiyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (Jan 1900)- v.1, no.24 (Nov 1900)
    • Location: LIBRA BP1.M325
  • Memoires Presents à l’Institut Egyptien
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.2-v.9 (1916)
    • Location: Museum 913.32 C127.2
    • Additional Options: v.3-7
  • Mémoires Publiés Par Les Membres de l’Institut Frangais d’Archiologie Orientale du Caire
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1903- )
    • Location: Museum 913.32 C128; LIBRA DT57.F8
    • Additional Options: Various issues from v.2-v.47 (1907-1921)
  • al-Muhit
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1903)- v.12/13 (1914/1915)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 M753
    • Additional Options: v.1-12 (1903-1914)
  • al-Muqattam (Weekly supplement to the daily newspaper al-Muqattam)
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (Feb 1889)-v.1, no.45 (Jan 1890)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 M78
  • al-Muqtataf (Beirut/Cairo)
  • al-Nuzhah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (Mar/Nov 1886)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 N89
  • Procès-Verbaux des Séances, Rapports de la Deuxième Commission (Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe)
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: fasc.1-5 (exercise 1882/1883)- fasc.14 (exercise 1897)
    • Location: Fine Arts NA1581.A3
    • Additional Options: v.1-29 (1882-192)
  • Proces-verbaux des seances, rapports de la Section technique (Comite de conservation des monuments de l'art arabe).
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (fasc.15 (exercise 1898)-fasc.40 (exercise 1946/1953))
    • Location: Fine Arts NA1581.A3
    • Additional Options: v.18-29 (1901-1912)
  • al-Qutr al-Misri
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (1908)- v.4
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 Q87
    • Additional Option: Sana 1, adad 2/24 (May-Oct. 1908)
  • Rapport sur la Marche du Service du Musée
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1912)
    • Location: LIBRA 913.32.AL25
  • Rapport sur le Commerce Extérieur de l’Égypte
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1897, 1899-1917)
    • Location: Van Pelt Library HF263.A4
  • Rawdat al-Madaris al-Misriyah
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1/7 (1870)- v.8 (1877)
    • Location: LIBRA LA1645.R39; Van Pelt Library LA1645.R391
    • Additional Options: v.1-8 (1870-1877)
  • al-Samir al-Saghir
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (1897)- v.1, no.34 (1898)
    • Location: LIBRA AP215.A7 S26
  • al-Shara’i‘
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1, no.1 (Oct 1913)- v.2, no.10 (July 1915)
    • Location: LIBRA K23.H37
  • al-Shifa’
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Feb 1886)- v.4 (Jan 1891)
    • Location: LIBRA R97.7.A7 S53
    • Additional Options: v.1-5 (1886-1892)
  • al-Sufur
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: (1916-1919)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 S85
  • al-Tankit wa-al-Tabkit
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: n. 1 (June 6, 1881)- n. 19 (Oct. 23, 1881)
    • Location: Van Pelt PN5465.T36.N33 1994
  • al-Ustadh
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: al-Sanah 1, al-adad 1 (24 Aghustus Sanat 1892)- 42 (13 Yuniyu Sanat 1893)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 U86
    • Additional Options: v.1-2 (1892-1893)
  • al-Zuhur
    • Pre-1919 Holdings: v.1 (Mar 1910)- v.4, no.8 (Dec 1913)
    • Location: LIBRA AP95.A6 Z83
    • Additional Options: v.1-4 (1910-1914)

Iranian Periodicals at Penn

This list of late 19th-mid 20th c. Persian periodicals is currently a work in-progress.

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    • See here for Penn's handlist to all Middle East and North African titles featured on this database.
  • NewsBank, Access World News
    This is a comprehensive news collection for the exploration of issues and events at the local, regional, national, and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
  • PressReader
    This resource covers to date nearly 6000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world. There are publications from over a hundred countries and in more than 60 languages. Among the newspapers, there are international top titles, other broadsheets and tabloids, as well as national and local newspapers.
  • World News Connection
    This resource contains many news sources dating from 1995-2013. Material derives from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.

    "A powerful online subscription service bringing news from around the world, translated into English, typically within 24-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast."

Historical Periodicals Online

  • Alphabetical List of Open Access Historical Newspapers and Other Periodicals in Middle East & Islamic Studies 

    • From the AMIR blog, "a list of Open Access historical newspapers and other periodicals in Middle Eastern Studies. 

    • Most titles on the list have been digitized by independent projects across the globe and may not have been fully cataloged."

  • AMEEL (Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library) 

    • A digital collection from Yale University containing journals, abstracts from Encyclopedia of Islam III, Dictionaries, Manuscripts from the Beinecke and SOAS, Gazettes (Syrian and Palestinian) spanning 1919-1948. To use, click brown button on the right to "Search or Brows AMEEL."

    •  "AMEEL holds approximately 350,000 pages of full text, indexed and searchable in the language of the publication including Arabic and Western scripts. The full text in AMEEL has been extracted using Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) rather than re-keying all works."

  • Arabic Press Archive 

    This is a catalog of holdings at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University For each county, lists of holdings can be downloaded in the form of downloadable .pdf files 

  • al-Arshif lil-Majallat al-Adabiyah wa-al-Thaqafah

    • Several Arabic periodicals from the 19th and early 20th centuries. 

  • FBIS Daily Reports 
    Issued by the U.S. Government, this resource features translations of broadcast and print news as well as government statements from nations around the world. It is used by the CIA as a principal record of political and historical open-source intelligence. It covers the time period from 1941-1996. For more recent years see its continuation, World News Connection.

  • Iraqi National Library and Archives Periodicals and Newspaper

  • A small selection of newspapers and journals from Iraq, dating from about 1875 into the 1920s.

  • Al-Aqsa Mosque Library
    This digitization project preserves the historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library, located in East Jerusalem. There are some rare periodicals in this collection, such as Majallat Rawdat al-Maʿarif (1922-34), the journal of one of the most important high schools in Mandate Palestine, al-Kulliyya al-ʿArabiyya (1928-36), the journal of the most important men’s education training college in Mandate Palestine, al-Huquq (1925-7), the only Arabic law journal to publish in Mandate Palestine, as well as a dozen others: al-ʿArab (1933-4), al-Jinan (1874); al-Mahabbah (1901), al-Hasna (1909); al-Zahra (1922-6), al-Fajr (1935), al-Jamiʿa al-Islamiyya(1932-5), al-Jamiʿa al-ʿArabiyya (1928-35), al-Sirat al-Mustaqim (1931-6), Sawt al-Shaʿb (1929-34); al-Awqat al-ʿArabiyya (1935); al-Liwaʾ(1936-7); Tasvir-i Efkar (1909); al-Muqtabas (1909-16); al-Qabas (1913-34); al-Difaʿ (1934-51); Filastin (1923-48); al-Aqdam (1934-6) and Mirʾat al-Sharq (1922-36). This is the single best digitized collection of historical Arabic periodicals on the web.

  • Nashriyah: digital Iranian history
    Digitalized Iranian newspapers and periodicals held by the University of Manchester

  • ​Hakkı Tarık Us Collection 
    A digital archive of Ottoman periodicals from the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection at the Beyazit State Library, Istanbul. All the digitized data are now available both at the Beyazit State Library and at TUFS Library in Tokyo. Some were already published online as a part of the C-DAT community of TUFS. Nota bene: all periodicals download as .djvu files. A converter will be required to read them.

  • Universität Bonn Periodicals in Ottoman, Persian, and Arabic
    Fully digitized database of mainly 19th c. periodicals

  • Milli Kütüphane Başkanlığı Süreli Yayınlar Bilgi Sistemi
    Full-text database of Ottoman periodicals. Periodicals are still being added. Each user must register in order to enlarge the thumbnails of each page.

  • History of Serial Novels in Turkish Literature (1831-1928)
    Over 200 journals and periodicals from the 19th to the early 20th centuries in Ottoman Turkish 

  • İSAM Kütuphanesi 
    Ottoman-era periodicals in PDF form and is searchable in a basic form by author or article title. In advanced search, one can choose the journal, article title, author, volume, issue, or date of publication. 

  • Illustrated London News Archive, 1842-2003.
    An archive of facsimile news reports, with original illustrations, from areas around the world, including the British Empire and beyond.

  • Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Center (Newspapers and Journals)

    • These collections contain historic newspapers and journals.

    • The collections in this group consist of two main categories. The first are digitizations of full newspapers created by immigrant communities for distribution throughout the diaspora. These tend to be in Arabic. The Khayrallah Center strives to centralize complete runs of these papers, and these collections represent selections from digitized papers that often span months, years, or decades. Others contain select articles from regional news sources relating to the Lebanese diaspora gathered by our staff in collaboration with other institutions. 

    • In addition to the titles available freely online, the Khayrallah Center holds digitized versions of newspapers, which have been restricted to researcher use only.

Microform Periodicals

These are primarily links to catalogs of periodicals and microfilms of them.

A catalog from the University of Chicago documenting microfilmed periodicals in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. Penn affiliates can make ILL requests for any microfilmed newspapers or periodicals in the catalog.

A chronology of periodicals published in Arabic or in Arabic and in another language (like the usual pair of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish) or in Arabic written in a different script (like Judeo-Arabic) during the period from 1800 to 1900. While admittedly incomplete, this resource makes an excellent introduction to this body of sources. 

"We chose to present the core data as a table containing information on titles, dates of first and last issue published, place(s) of publication, names of publishers and editors, language(s) of publication, and available collections. In addition, we provide various indexes of publishers and locations, as well as a bibliography of the most important secondary sources and available union catalogs. To search any part of the website, the browser's search function should be invoked (Ctrl-F for Windows, Cmd-F for Mac OSX). Please keep in mind that unicode symbols adhering to the IJMES transliteration must be used."

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