Calligraphy Qalam: An Introduction to Arabic, Ottoman and Persian Calligraphy (http://calligraphyqalam.com/index.html)
This website contains information on the history, various styles, techniques, classes, as well as a gallery of various types of calligraphy in the Arabic script
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site by country name will yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read in it.
Gibran Khalil Gibran ( http://leb.net/gibran/)
Includes his biography, artistic and written works
Joumana Haddad ( http://www.joumanahaddad.com/)
Includes an autobiography, photo gallery website, and poems tanslated into seven languages by the poet herself.
Lebanon Art (http://www.lebanonart.net/)
Lebanese painters, photographers, sculptors, poets and others are featured on this site, which includes some of their works and their cv.
Lebanon Language (http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/lit.htm)
Includes information on Lebanese and other Arab writers and poets.
Poets ( http://www.geocities.com/marxist_lb/index2.htm#me)
List of poets and featured works from several countries, includes17 Lebanese poets.
Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.
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