Charles C. Stewart, The Wire, West Africa's Manuscript Culture Might Finally Get the Attention it Deserves "The ancient ...

Arab American Newspaper Archive NC State University's Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies has established a database of its Arab American newspaper archive (from 1880s to mid 1900s). This is an open source research resource. Looks intriguing.

For those who remember cassettes, this is significant:

So cool: the Syrian Cassette Archives is a forthcoming interactive online database aiming to preserve and share cassettes acquired between 1997-2010 with music made by of Syrian Arabs, Assyrians, Kurds, Armenians, and Iraqis in Syria ...