Project Partners

Collaborating entities include participating American Overseas Research Centers and their local partner networks, listed below; the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and its Digital Library for International Research; the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; Princeton University Library, and the Center for Research Libraries.

American Overseas Research Centers participating in the CDIRM project are located in the Mediterranean basin; the Middle East and North Africa; and Inner Asia. A large collection of materials from Guatemala now held by Princeton University Library is also part of the project.

As the project work is initiated in each country, we will add a description of the local project and the names of collaborating local institutions, keyed to the alphabetical list of centers immediately below.

• American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
  • Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia
  • Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (AIMS-CEMA), Oran Algeria
  • Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, Tangier, Morocco
• American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen
• American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
• American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey
• Princeton University Libraries
• W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel

The section below gives descriptions of the local components of the CDIRM projects sponsored by the participating AORC centers, their local partner organizations, and other collaborating institutions. They are alphabetized by country. This information will be updated as new projects are started serially over the first three years of the project. For those interested in finding out more about the individual centers and their programs, the ORC names below are linked to the centers' own websites.

Algeria

AORC: Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (AIMS-CEMA), Oran Algeria
Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago)

Egypt

AORC: The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago)

Guatemala

Partner: Princeton University Libraries
Project: Collections produced by the Guatemalan News and Information Bureau on deposit at the Princeton University Libraries.

Israel

AORC: W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel
Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago)

Mongolia

AORC: American Center for Mongolian StudiesProject: Omeka project for Mongolian sutras
Partners: Mongolian University of Science and Technology, local library partners

Morocco

AORC: Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, Tangier, Morocco
Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago)

Tunisia

AORC: Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia
Project: Digitization of selected maps from the collection at CEMAT
Partners: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago)

Yemen

AORC: American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen
Project: Selective digitization of manuscripts held by the Dar al-Makhtutat, Ministry of Culture
Partner: Dar al-Makhtutat, Ministry of Culture