This reading primer in the spoken language of the so-called “Mountain Jews” was published in Baku in 1926 as part of a Soviet campaign to alphabetize the nationalities of the USSR … Read more
Tag Archives: Open Access
Turkish shadow plays with Karagöz and Hacivat
All 3 books of “Karagös : türkische Schattenspiele” by Hellmut Ritter, are now available in open access on MENAdoc.… Read more
Free Software for Free Books
Our Open Access repository MENAdoc will get a new technical infrastructure over the next months. Perspectively, the entire collection will be moved to Share_it – our instance of the free document server DSpace.… Read more
Workshop for Oriental Librarians
The team of the Specialized Information Service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies invites more than 30 experts from academic libraries to a workshop. The event will take place from 4 to 5 December at the University and … Read more
Prints and Impressions from Ottoman Smyrna
“Prints and Impressions from Ottoman Smyrna: the Collection de costumes civils et militaires, scènes populaires, et vues de l’Asie-Mineure Album (1836-38) at Harvard University’s Fine Arts Library”.… Read more
“Memoria” – Series of the Orient-Institut Istanbul on MENAdoc
Self Testimonies from the Ottoman Empire
The series „Memoria : Fontes minores ad Historiam Imperii Ottomanici pertinentes“ is available in Open Access on our MENAdoc repository.
This series is based on many smaller sources that have not … Read more
“Defending Turkey on Global Stages” – Secondary Publication
The essay “Defending Turkey on Global Stages: The Young Turk Reşit Saffet’s Internationalist Strategy in 1919” by Carolin Liebisch is now freely available in our open access repository MENAdoc.
The text examines the activities of the young Turkish diplomat and … Read more