Since 2007, the University of Arizona Libraries has been collaborating with the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU) to preserve, catalogue and digitize Afghan Literature from the Jihad Period (1979-1989). Initially supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) until 2012, the project is now jointly funded by the University of Arizona Libraries and ACKU.

The Afghanistan Digital Collections website includes unique documents in English, Pashto and Dari about Afghan history and culture, and the development of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. Among the important titles, readers will find:

• Established in 1927, Anis is a newspaper in Dari and Pashto still currently published with approximately 2,500 copies circulated daily
• Established in 1962, the Kabul Times was the first English language printed newspaper in Afghanistan. After 1978 and the Coup d’Etat, and its renaming New Kabul Times, the editorial line of the newspaper changed for Communist and anti-Western culture rhetoric
• Published by the Government from 1932 to 1990, Da Afghanistan Kalanay -also known as Salnamah-i Afghanistan- is both an almanac and yearbook covering political and economic history and activities of the country. Texts are mostly in Dari/Persian and Pashto, but some issues have added titles and notes in English or French.

The website is in English.

Families Interrupted presents a series of anonymous but intimate portraits of Palestinian families living under the Israeli Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This Law, passed in 2003, prevents Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) married to Israeli citizens from obtaining a legal status in Israel, violating their right to a family life in Israel.

Photographs and related testimonies of Rawiya, Yara, or Kifah, provide invaluable insight into how the Israeli Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law makes their family life extremely difficult if not impossible, and give snapshots of their daily human existence.

Initially produced for Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Families Interrupted is one of the numerous resources available on Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies website. The photographs are taken by professional photographer Jenny Nyman, and the collection is curated by Rula Makram Khoury, art historian and art critic.

The website is trilingual English, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP) was originally launched in 1995 by a registered Non Profit Organisation operating through the collaborative effort of volunteers based in many countries around the world. The goal of DILP is to digitize, and make available on the internet a growing number of materials related to the history, law, practices, and societies across the Muslim world or areas where Islam is present, with a particular focus on Twelver Shiism.

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library includes over 1,800 textual, audio and video documents in twelve different languages (Arabic, Bengali, English, French, Gujarati, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Urdu). Audio materials can be downloaded in MP3, Video can be shared (vimeo), and textual documents can be saved in PDF, and printed.

Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project is not a scholarly website and should be used as such. If “all reasonable attempts have been made to prevent inauthentic information from being carried on this site” (…) Ahlul Bayt does not “guarantee the absolute authenticity of all of the data (…).”

The website interface is available in the same twelve languages mentioned above.

Initiated in 2016, Bibliothèque d’Orient is a collaborative effort of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) and seven heritage and research libraries based in Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, Istanbul, and Jerusalem. Bibliothèque d’Orient is an ever-growing digital collection that currently (Sept. 2017) includes over 7,000 textual documents, photographs, maps, etc. covering the Levant including Iraq and Arabia Petrea from 1798 (i.e. Expedition of Bonaparte to Egypt) to 1945.

The website is organized in seven  themes discoverable from the content page (above):

• Crossroads includes photographs, travel accounts, travel books, maps, etc.
• Communities includes documents relating to the everyday life of people and their traditions
• Religions focuses on the religions present in the area as well as holy places
• Knowledge gathers a variety of documents about libraries, research institutions, and languages studies
• Politics is further divided in four themes: Wars and conflicts, Treaties and borders, Reforms, and Nationalisms
• Imaginery focuses on literary sources
• Personalities (incomplete section) presents people identified as important.

All documents are accessible full-text, and can be either read online, downloaded (PDF), printed, or shared. It is also possible to order art reproductions for a fee.

The website is available in Arabic, French, and English, but the online reader interface is only in French.