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Historical Primary Sources: Middle East & North Africa: Journals & Magazines

Magazines

Akis 1954-1967
Archive of the Turkish weekly political magazine.

The Arab Bulletin: Bulletin of the Arab Bureau in Cairo, 1916-1919
Founded on the initiative of T. E. Lawrence to provide "a secret magazine of Middle East politics."

Digitization Project Translatio
A growing collection of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals from the "saddle period" of the Middle East and Asia (1860-1945).
Hakkı Tarık Us Collection
A digital archive of Ottoman periodicals, included in the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection, which is currently kept at the Beyazıt State Library in Istanbul.

La Nation Arabe 1930-1938
A virtually complete set of this influential journal of Arab political opinion.
Neglected Arabia / Arabia Calling 1892-1962
The complete run of the journal of the Arabian Mission of the Reformed Church in America. It is a mirror of social, medical, and educational development in the Gulf States.

NoorMags
One of the largest specialized databases in Islamic Studies and Humanities . It provides full text access to more than 1300 magazines for over a million articles in mainly Persian, with some Arabic and English languages. [1900 to Present].
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Mainly Persian, with some Arabic and English languages.

Periodical collection of the al-Aqsa Mosque Library (1874-1955)
13 newspapers and 11 magazines published mainly in Palestine, but also in Syria and Turkey, between 1874 and 1955.