AskZad is a digital library of Arabic and English content emanating from the countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and containing over 500 million pages of content.
Mohamed Elewa, founder and CEO of Arabia Inform, is seeing his vision come to life. "I founded Arabia Inform more than a dozen years ago. We created the Middle East's most comprehensive digitization, indexing and archiving center, aggregating and licensing content from around the region. I have always wanted to bring the richness of Arabic thought to the West, connecting our cultures. Now that we are launching AskZad in North America and Europe, I am seeing my ultimate wish realized. We will continue to develop our content to be more usable by both Arabic-speaking and non-Arabic speaking populations and I hope that Arabia Inform will add a new dimension and understanding to the geopolitical dialogue."
The content found within AskZad collectively forms an unprecedented digital library of the most important publications from across the Middle East and is constantly growing. As of September 2009, AskZad contains:
Pan-Arab News Index is a full Arabic language index - going back to 1998 - covering:
--130 newspaper and news magazine print editions
--181 newspapers and new magazines with both print and online editions
--215 online news sources from the Arab world
--indexing of an additional 1,000 news sources relevant to the Middle East
--article-level views of full content
AskZad Full-Page Newspapers is a full-image collection of Middle Eastern Newspapers which AskZad is licensed to re-distribute. AskZad is pursuing an initiative through 2010 to license the top 100 Arabic language news publications from the Middle East.
Pan-Arab News Index is a full Arabic language index going back to 1998 covering over 2,000 news sources from the Middle East, including hundreds of print newspapers, news websites, and magazines. PANI offers up-to-date indexing as well as article-level views of full content.
Pan-Arab E-Books contains nearly 25,000 digitized books.
Pan-Arab Academic Journal Index contains full Arabic language indices of more than 500 Middle Eastern university-published journals and approximately 150 organization-
Pan-Arab Academic Journals is a database of complete, licensed content of almost 200 Applied Science and Social Science Academic Journals published in the Middle East. AskZad continues to negotiate with other journal publishers to expand its collection to include all of the 3,000 journals published across the Arab world.
Pan-Arab Dissertations contains almost 7,000 dissertations published by graduate students in the Middle East.
Pan-Arab Peer-Review Articles contains approximately 10,000 peer-reviewed articles in both Applied and Social Sciences.
Pan-Arab Conference Proceedings covers full materials from approximately 50 Middle Eastern conferences (most held annually), primarily academic, and includes white papers, research presentations, etc.
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