Research Guides: Middle East Studies: Digital Media

CDs

Naxos Music Library World
A streaming music database that includes the complete Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, as well as holdings from Sony, Arc and Naxos World, representing over 1,500 cultural groups and 150 countries.
Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, including the Middle East, and comprises everything from Abdul Halim Hafiz and Umm Kulthum, to Trésors de la Chanson Judéo-Arabe and taqsim musical improvisations.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It provides access to an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

World Cinema Collection
Includes over 1,000 films and series from the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, masterpieces from the mid-20th century and contemporary films from around the world, including North Africa and the Middle East.
Criterion On Demand
Streaming site built specifically for institutional use with more than 6,500 titles including classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles and independent features.
NFB Explore (National Film Board)
Provides access to online viewing of over 3,000 films, including documentaries, animations and interactive productions produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). UBC access includes free NFB content as well the paid Education collection.
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides access to more than 26,000 films each year. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
Audio Cine Films
Audio Cine Films collection offers access to thousands of titles from the world's most renowned film studios and producers including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstones Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Universal Studios Canada (MCA), MGM Studios, United Artists.

Ethnographic Video Online
Streaming ethnographic video database features works by many influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides and more.
Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA)
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative effort to establish a repository of ethnographic video recordings and an infrastructure of tools and systems supporting scholars in the ethnographic disciplines, with a special focus on the fields of ethnomusicology, folklore, anthropology and dance ethnology.
The licensing terms of this resource require all users to create an individual account. To request an account, please register here. Account activation will be automatic as long an individual creates his/her account from an on-campus computer.

Library Stack
Library Stack is a growing collection of born-digital media: ebooks, audio files, videos, apps and documents being published in the fields of contemporary art, design, architecture, media studies, cinema and philosophy.
Pidgeon Digital
A collection of historical and recent talks given by some of the world's most important architectural professionals, originally created by Monica Pidgeon in 1979. Includes talks by Zaha Hadid, Rifat Chadirji, Farshid Moussavi, Ron Arad and others.