FID Nahost acquires hard-to-find primary literature from the countries and in the languages of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa).
Range of subjects (philological)
- Islamic Studies
- Islamic Theology
- Oriental Christianity
- Arabic Studies
- Semitic Studies
- Iranian Studies
- Turkology
- Armenology
- Caucasian Studies
Regional priorities for acquisition (Area Studies)
Egypt, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara
Thematic priorities for acquisition
- Islam and Oriental Christianity in the MENA region
- Languages, literature and folklore
- History, including social and economic history
- Politics, the constitution, public administration
- Publications on political parties, trade unions and similar organisations
- Anthropogeography and Area Studies
- Ethnology and sociology
- Education and universities
- Scientific institutions
- Information, book and library sciences
- Publishing
- Film, radio, television
- Philosophy and cultural history
- Art, music, theatre, dance
- Law, mathematics, agriculture, medicine, natural sciences and technology in their traditional forms
- Parliamentary publications of the central parliaments
Auch:
- Kurds
- Arabic outside these regions
- Islamic Turk peoples
- Copts
- The autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus