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Archives and Libraries

Women's Library, Turkiye The first and only women's library and information center in Turkey. General information in English.

Associations and Societies

Special Topics

Power & Sexuality in the Middle East Online articles and a bibliography at The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) website
Women, War, Diaspora and Learning This website contains materials on Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain and Sweden. It features bibliographies on gender and feminist organizing in the Middle East, gender and transnationality, women and war and other topics; from the University of Toronto

Discussion Lists

H-Gender-MidEast An international electronic network for social scientists and humanists interested in scholarly exchange on issues of gender in the Arabic speaking Middle East & North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.

Journals

Al-Raida A quarterly journal in English published by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) to spread knowledge about social, economic and legal conditions of women in the Arab World.
Farzaneh Journal of Women's Studies and Research in Iran and Muslim Countries.
Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS) The official publication of the Association for Middle East Womens Studies.

Reference

Institute for Gender and Women's Studies At the American University in Cairo. The IGWS is a multipurpose and interdisciplinary research center that serves scholars interested in gender and women's studies in the Arabic speaking Middle East/North Africa, Turkey , the Caucasus, Iran, Central and South Asia and Africa.
Institute for Women's Studies and Research IWSR (Tehran) General information in Farsi about this NGO and its activities, news, reports, and a database; some information in English.
Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University Birzeit, Palestine. General information, links.
Iran: Women Many links, from Pars Times.

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Last updated 11 February 2013