The Applied Research
Institute in Jerusalem (ARIJ)
The Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem, actually located in Bethlehem,
focuses on environmental protection and sustainable development with the
aim of building a comprehensive environmental database for Palestine in
areas related to water, agriculture, land, and air. As a bonus, an Eye on
Pale
stine section,
introduced in early 1997, has excellent primers on understanding Israeli
settlement policy, including the Abu Ghonaim/Har
Homa project and a host of others in the Jerusalem area.
Incredible maps, photos and aerial photos facilitate understanding.
Birzeit University Institute of Law
Birzeit University Institute of Law was established
in 1993 in order to contribute to the evolution of legal structures and
the rule of law in Palestine. The
current main tasks of the Institute are: continuing legal education, practical
legal research, a Master of Laws Program and the establishment of a complete
and modern legal information and documentation center. In addition, the
Birzeit University Institute of Law has developed
a comprehensive Palestinian law library.
Cairo Demographic Center
(CDC)
The Cairo Demographic Center is
a training and research institute established in 1963 by the mutual assistance
between the United Nations and the Egyptian Government. In January 1992
the Egyptian Government took full responsibility for the Center. The site
provides only listings of on-going and current research. It does not publish
abstracts or full texts.
The Egyptian Center
for Economic Studies (ECES)
The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies,
an independent nonprofit research institute, was founded in 1992 by
members of Egypt's
private sector. The Center is dedicated to promoting economic development
in Egypt by
assisting policy makers and the business community in the process of identifying,
developing and implementing policy reform.
Institute for Documentation
and Research on Lebanon (IDREL)
IDREL is a research and publishing company specialising
in Lebanon's
public affairs. It publishes the weekly electronic newsletter "ShuFiMaFi", the monthly documentary and statistical bulletin
"Al-Marjaa Cassandre",
the "Zakirat Loubnan"
yearbook, and the "Lebanese Jurisprudence Index".
Israel/Palestine Center
for Research and Information (IPCRI)
IPCRI was founded in Jerusalem in
1989 as a joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank. IPCRI is devoted
to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Land
Research Center (LRC)
The Land Research Center (LRC) was established in Jerusalem in
1986 as a branch of the Arab Studies Society headed by Mr. Faisel
Husaini. LRC is an independent, non-governmental,
non-profit Palestinian organization whose activities cover areas of the
West
Bank (including East Jerusalem) and
Gaza Strip. LCR's objectives are to protect the
Palestinian land, to safeguard Palestinian agriculture from Israeli violations
and to preserve the Palestinian’s basic rights to housing and land ownership.
LCR conducts researches and studies on the issues of land, agriculture and
make full linkages between Arab Jerusalem and the remaining parts of the
occupied Palestinian territories.
Lebanese Center for
Legal and Economic Studies (LCLES)
The Lebanese Center for Legal and Economic Studies offers statistics on
current main issues, provides free legal and economic advice for organizations
and individuals and publishes online a weekly Editorial endorsed with recent
statistics.
Middle East Research
and Studies (MERS)
The Middle East Research and Studies provides services in the field of information
technology, documentation, indexing, data automation and research. As a
research corporation MERS handles the information related to the Arab world,
indexing Arab newspapers and periodicals, organization and reorganization
of archives, libraries, and research centers attached to media establishments,
government, ministries and companies.
The
Palestine Economic Forum
The Palestine Economic Forum, sponsored by the Economic Development
Institute of the World Bank seeks to promote prosperity and the
peace process by bringing in the economic dimension on a broad set of issues
that are at the cutting edge of Palestinian economic development.
Palestine
Economic Policy Research Insitute (MAS)
The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute, or Ma'had
Abhath As-Syasat Al-Iqtisadiyeh Al Filistini (MAS),
was founded in May 1994 to engage in applied economic research, and to provide
expert analysis of policies and strategies critical to the development of
the Palestinian economy.
The
Palestinian Energy & Environment Research Center (PEC)
The Palestinian Energy
& Environment Research Center was
established in December 1993 in Jerusalem to
prepare studies and proposals about the needs of the Palestinian community
for energy resources, traditional and non-traditional.
Syrian Economic Society
The Syrian Economic Society has a wide mandate, to promote research on the
economy of the Arab region in general and Syria in particular, to participate
in the endeavors to establish Arab economic unity, to create a networking
platform for Arab economists, to help enhance the study of economics. In
its general effort to enhance the economic and social development in Syria, the
Society hosts workshops, conferences, and economic Forums. The Society's
web site is publishing the Arabic full texts of the studies, with abstracts
in English.
The
Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, founded in 1994
in Abu Dhabi, is an independent research institution dedicated to professional
research and educational excellence in the UAE and the Gulf area. ECSSR
serves as a focal point for scholarship on political, economic, and social
issues pertinent to the UAE, the Gulf, and the Middle East regions
through the sponsorship of empirical research and scientific studies conducted
by scholars from around the globe. This site carries brief descriptions
of ECSSR's publications and research activities.
It also offers general information about the United
Arab Emirates.
Faculty of Economic and Political
Science (FEPS)
The Faculty of Economic and Political Science (FEPS) of Cairo University was
founded in 1960. FEPS has five academic departments: Economics, Political
Science, Statistics, Public Administration and Computational Socio-Sciences
and Informations Systems, and six research centers,
the Center for Political Economic and Financial Research Studies, the Center
for Information and Computing Systems, the Center for Asian Studies, the
Center for Developing Countries Studies, and the Public Administration and
Consultation Center. FEPSs academic department and research centers will soon provide
online access to academic related information and research publications.
The
Ibn Khaldoun Center
for Development Studies (ICDS)
The Ibn Khaldoun Center
for Development Studies is a Cairo-based private professional research organization
created in 1988. The main objective of the Center is to advance applied
social sciences relating to Egypt, the
Arab World and the Third World. The
Center is particularly engaged in issues of democratization and civil society.
The Center publishes a monthly magazine Civil Society, recent
issues of which are available online.
* To read about the charges against Dr. Saadeddin
Ibrahim, the director of the center, and the reasons leading
to the current closing of the Ibn Khaldoun
Center for Development Studies, you may go the Free-Saadeddin_Ibrahim eGroups
website.
Institute
for Palestine Studies (IPS)
IPS promotes research, analysis, and documentation on the Arab-Israeli conflict
and its peaceful resolution. IPS publishes quarterlies in three languages:
Journal of Palestine Studies (in English), Majallat
al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyah
(in Arabic), and Revue d'Etudes Palestiniennes
(in French).
Jerusalem
Media & Communication Center (JMCC)
The Jerusalem Media & Communication Center (JMCC) provides information
on events in the West Bank (including
East Jerusalem) and
the Gaza Strip. JMCC's Jerusalem and
Gaza offices
provide a wide range of services to journalists, researchers, international
agencies, individuals and organizations interested in obtaining reliable
information on the Palestinian territory.
The
Jerusalem Quarterly File (JQF)
The Jerusalem Quarterly File (JQF) is published by the Institute of Jerusalem
Studies (IJS), a research institute focused on the city of Jerusalem, refugees
and final status issues.
Lebanese
Association for Educational Studies (LAES)
The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES) was established
in 1995 as an independent association. The mission of LAES is to advance
and disseminate educational knowledge, to support educational research community
in Lebanon, and
to interact with similar associations in the Arab countries and the world.
LAES publishes a newsletter and educational series.
Lebanese
Association of Women Researchers (LAWR)
The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers was founded in 1993. The Association
brings together women in research, encourages young women researchers, and
provides a setting for cultural and scientific exchanges. LAWR publishes
a research yearbook "Bahithat", coordinates
workshops monthly, and organizes debates and conferences.
The
Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)
The Lebanese Center for
Policy Studies (LCPS) is an independent, non-profit research institute based
in Beirut. It
is concerned with issues of political, social, and economic development.
LCPS publishes studies and organizes conferences that analyze and aim to
improve public policy. It also publishes extensive materials online to increase
public awareness of critical policy issues.
The
Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
The Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs PASSIA
is "an Arab non-profit institution located in Jerusalem/Al-Quds with a financially and legally independent status. It
is not affiliated with any government, political party or organization.
PASSIA seeks to present the Palestinian Question in its national, Arab and
international contexts through academic research, dialogue and publication."
This site offers a summaries of PASSIA's publications since 1987, what was said at various
academic meetings, and how to get that sought after PASSIA diary, Palestine's
answer to the Yellow Pages.
The
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)
The Palestinian Center for
Policy and Survey Research (PSR) is an independent nonprofit institution
and think tank of policy analysis and academic research. PSR was founded
with the goal of advancing scholarship and knowledge on immediate issues
of concern to Palestinians in three areas: domestic politics and government,
strategic analysis and foreign policy, and public opinion polls and survey
research. The center engages in several academic and policy analysis activities,
organizes and conducts socio-political
surveys and public opinion polls on current Palestinian political
and social attitudes.
Center
for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS)
The Center for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS) was founded in March
1993 in response to the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues
related to Palestine. The
Center is an independent academic research and policy analysis institution,
independent of political factions, and has conducted numerous polls of Palestinian
public opinion since 1993, available online.
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS)
The Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic
Studies (ACPSS) was established in 1968 as an independent research unit
functioning within the framework of the Al-Ahram
Foundation. The ACPSS undertakes multidisciplinary research dealing with
regional and international developments, as well as Egyptian strategic,
political, economic, and social affairs, and publishes many of its papers
online.
Center for Strategic
Studies Research and Documentation
CSSRD was established in 1990 as an independent Lebanese research center.
The research emphasis of CSSRD is on geo-political strategic studies following
the end of the Cold War and their impacts on the Middle East and
the Islamic world. The site, in Arabic language only, is in Arabic graphics
and PDF.
Al-Urdun
Al-Jadid Research Center (UJRC)
Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research
Center is an independent Jordanian scientific organization engaged in research
and studies as well as organizing seminars for discussion, dialogue, training,
consultations and the exchange of expertise. Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research Center is
an independent Jordanian scientific organization engaged in research and
studies as well as organizing seminars for discussion, dialogue, training,
consultations and the exchange of expertise. The mission of the UJRC is
to promote democratic culture in Jordan by
deepening knowledge of civil political organizations, enhancing the democratic
practices and encouraging citizens, particularly women and youth, to be
involved in political and social life. Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research Center is
currently publishing a newsletter on Civil Society,
Democracy and Sustainable Development, in Arabic only.
The
Center for Lebanese Studies (CLS)
The Centre for Lebanese Studies is an independent academic research institution.
It was founded in 1984 and is affiliated to the Middle East Centre at St.
Antony's College, Oxford. CLS
acts as a repository of most academic information and documents relating
to Lebanon. The
Centre initiates and publishes research papers and books on relevant historical,
economic, political, sociological and cultural issues affecting Lebanon and
houses most of the academic information and documents relating to Lebanon.
Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE)
The Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) is a non-profit,
private study and research institution that aims at providing a better understanding
of the built environment and of the challenges facing it in Jordan and
the region. The built environment is defined in a comprehensive manner to
include all physical components of human settlements such as buildings,
streets, open spaces, and infrastructure. CSBE is therefore an interdisciplinary
center that addresses areas including environmental studies, urban design
and planning, conservation, architecture, landscape architecture, and construction
technologies.
The
Center for Strategic Studies (CSS)
The Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) is an academic unit of the University of
Jordan concerned
mainly with research in the fields of regional conflicts, international
relations and security. CSS is engaged in activities that include planning
and research in such new fields as democracy, political pluralism, development,
the economy and the environment.
American Institute for
Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
AIYS is a member of the Council
of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). AIYS is the only
American interdisciplinary academic organization active on the Arabian
peninsula. It is the primary
link between the American academic community and the Yemeni government as
well as the Yemeni academic community. AIYS, a member of the Council of
American Overseas Research Centers, is the only American interdisciplinary
academic organization active on the Arabian peninsula. It is the primary
link between the American academic community and the Yemeni government as
well as the Yemeni academic community.
The American Research
Center in Egypt (ARCE)
ARCE is the professional society in the United
States of specialists
on Egypt of
all periods. It is also a consortium of universities and museums that support
archaeological and academic research in Egypt and
whose membership is open to the public. ARCE operates out of offices in
New
York City and Cairo. ARCE
publishes the Journal of the American Research Center in
Egypt (JARCE), which is an annual, and the Newsletter of the American Research Center in
Egypt (NARCE), published three times a year.
Le
Centre d’Etudes et de
Documentation Economiques, Juridiques
et Sociales (CEDEJ)
The Centre for Economic, Juridical and Social Studies & Documentation
(CEDEJ) is a multidisciplinary research centre in social and human sciences
focused on contemporary Egypt and
Sudan. CEDEJ
is based in Cairo with
a branch at Khartoum University,
Sudan. A
member of the network of research institutes run by the Division of Scientific,
University and Research Cooperation at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
CEDEJ is associated with the CNRS (National Center for
Scientific Research) since 1985 and is at present one of its Human and Social
Sciences Department research units. CEDEJ conducts research in political
sciences and sociology, juridical studies, economy, urban and Sudanese studies.
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches
sur le Moyen-Orient
Contemporain (CERMOC)
CERMOC is a social science research center administratively dependent upon
the human social sciences and archeology unit of the French Ministry of
Foreign Affairs' Directorate of Cultural, Scientific, and Technical Relations.
Founded in Beirut in
1977, CERMOC opened an annex in Amman
in 1988. Jordanie, Liban, Palestine, Irak, Syrie.
Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT)
The Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT)
is the overseas research center of the American Institute for Maghribi
Studies (AIMS). CEMAT offers to AIMS members quiet office space, a specialized
library with works primarily in English on the Maghrib
an d the Middle East, a
conference room, and administrative support. CEMAT organizes lectures and
roundtables regularly, and an annual conference.
Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences
sociales de Sanaa.
Le Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
a vocation à initier, coordonner et soutenir les travaux d'équipes françaises,
yéménites ou étrangères, en sciences humaines, sociales et en archéologie
sur le Yémen et les pays limitrophes (Oman, Arabie Saoudite, Erythrée).
Le champ des recherches en cours est particulièrement ouvert : de la civilisation
sudarabique à la construction de l'Etat moderne ; patrimoine, identités
et mutations au Yémen ; archéologie et histoire de l'Arabie du Sud aux périodes
pré-islamique et islamique ; étude des supports de la tradition
et des dynamiques du changement dans la société contemporaine.
l'Institut Français
d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient (IFAPO)
Founded by Henri Seyrig in October 1946 as
the French Archeological Institute of Beirut and renamed in 1977, IFAPO
was originally a center for documentation and academic discussions bringing
French, other European, and Near Eastern colleagues together. One impact
of the Lebanese war, however, was that IFAPO members spread into Syria and
Jordan and
developed excavation sites in all three countries.
Centre d’Etudes en Sciences Humaines
et sociales,
(Centre Jacques Berque)
Le Centre Jacques BERQUE est un établissement de recherche du Ministère
Français des Affaires Etrangères en collaboration avec le Ministère français
de l'Education Nationale, le Ministère français de la Recherche et le CNRS.
Il fait partie du dispositif français de recherche en sciences humaines
et sociales constitué à l'étranger et plus spécifiquement dans la région
Méditerranée Afrique. Il est doté de l'autonomie financière. Il assure les
missions de : Centre de recherche initiant et mettant en oeuvre des programmes
Lieu d'accueil et d'encadrement de jeunes chercheurs français, européens
et africains Structure d'appui pour la coordination des échanges franco-marocains
en matière de sciences sociales et humaines. Ces trois missions concernent
la recherche menée de façon spécifique sur le Maroc et la Mauritanie et,
de façon transversale sur le Maghreb dans son ensemble.
Almishkat Center for Research
Almishkat is an independent institution devoted
to advancing knowledge on contemporary Egypt, and
Arab countries, through research in the social sciences, with emphasis on
human development. Fields of research emphasis include: education/learning
and research/development, employment, governance and welfare (poverty).
Centre
for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS)
The center carries out research into all aspects of Arab society and Arab
unity and publishes also a scholarly monthly journal in Arabic called "Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi" (The Arab
Future).
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries,
Iran & Turkey (ERF)
The Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and
Turkey (ERF) was created in June 1993 to meet the need for closer interaction
between the regional economic research constituency, the decision-making
community, and the interest groups of civil society. ERF's
mission is to provide an institutional mechanism to initiate and fund policy-relevant
research, to disseminate the results of research activity to scholars, policymakers,
and the business community, and to function as a resource base for researchers
through its databank and documentation library.