Ottoman History Podcast: Middle East history generally; podcast episodes in English and Turkish
Tozsuz Evrak: Primary sources with short historical explanations ·
Stambouline: Art and architecture, especially Ottoman Empire
Afternoon Map: Middle East maps with short historical explanations/articles
Canary Records: Label that releases old records from the Ottoman diaspora, early 20th century
Habibi Funk: Label that releases Arabic, mostly North African, funk and jazz, 1970s-80s
Jadaliyya: News and analysis on the Middle East, mostly Arab world; “pedagogy” section includes articles on “essential reads” on various themes and topics
Akkasah: Online photography archive being put together by NYU Abu Dhabi
UNESCO Memory of the World Register, Maps from Qajar Iran:
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran: Sources from various personal and institutional collections
Tahrir Documents: From the Egyptian uprising, 2011
AMEEL: Mostly newspapers, government gazettes; strengths are Iraq and Palestine; mostly in Arabic
Asnad: Persian sources
World Digital Library: Note: this is open to a search for digitized documents from the Iraq National Library and Archive; they hold sources from many other places too
Qatar Digital Library: Huge amount of digitized sources from the British Library, including many India Office files; other manuscript collections as well
NYU Afghanistan Digital Library and Arabic Collections Online: Also has links to various other digitized collections, and finding aids to collections at NYU, Brooklyn Historical Society, New York Historical Society
Oman Library Digital Collection: Multiple languages
OpenAccess@TBMM: Digitized portal to Turkish government archives, includes selections from Ottoman and Republican periods
SALT Research: Mostly collections on Istanbul, Turkey, Southeastern Europe; late 19th-early 20th centuries; includes some material from Ottoman Bank Archives
Svoboda Diary Project: Transcriptions of diaries of steamship clerk in Ottoman Iraq (English)
Emma B. Andrews Diary Project: Nile diaries, female American traveler, 1889-1912
Gertrude Bell Archive: Letters, diaries, photographs; English traveler and official, involved in early independent Iraq, esp Iraq museum, 19-20th centuries
Abdul Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress): Gifts from Sultan Abdülhamid to the United States
Gulf/2000 project: Large map and infographic collection about the Persian Gulf region; also includes links to many other resources on the Gulf; more contemporary
Indian Ocean in World History database: Mostly aimed at high school students; but includes database of Indian Ocean property deeds – in Arabic but metadata and search engine in English; also “maps” section with historical blurbs and images about people; places; objects
***Don’t forget to search the Internet Archive (archive.org) and Google Books for digitized books that are out of copyright. Everything from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is out of copyright at this point and should be accessible.