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Conducting Research in Lebanon: An Overview of Historical Sources Outside of Beirut (Part II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Nadya Sbaiti  and
Sara Scalenghe
Nadya Sbaiti
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
Sara Scalenghe
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
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Recent years have witnessed a concerted effort by researchers, archivists and others to preserve, catalog, and inform researchers about the many types of sources located in Lebanon. The publication of Part I of this guide to conducting historical research [see MESA Bulletin 37:1 (Summer 2003): 68-79] addressed archives, libraries, and institutes located in Beirut. This article is dedicated to those found in the rest of the country.

As with Part I, the archives and sources surveyed below comprise those that are open to the public and deemed to have the most potential for researchers. Although likely to be of most relevance to historians, these sources are such that they should also prove useful to scholars from other fields. Furthermore, access is constantly improving, thanks in no small part to the efforts underway at multiple institutions to organize and digitize manuscripts, court records, and a host of other documents.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , December 2004 , pp. 187 - 195
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2004

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References

1 We would like to thank those people who generously assisted us in the preparation of this article, especially Osama Abi-Mershed, Beshara Doumani, Guita Hourani, Akram Khater, Dina Rizk Khoury, Sami Makarem, Ilham Makdisi, Kevin Martin, Guilnard Moufarrej, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, Sami Salameh, Su’ad Selim, Stefan Weber, and Max Weiss.

2 Names and places are spelled according to most frequent usage in Lebanon.

3 The other catalogs published under the auspices of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate for Syria can be found in a two-volume work titled Mahfuzhat Batriarkiyat Antakia wa Sa’ir al-Mashriq li al-Rum al-Urthudhuks, published in 2002. Most of those documents are located in Damascus.