Middle East Disability Bibliography Much Extended

Middle East Disability Bibliography Much Extended

First web published in 2002, and now revised and extended in 2008 with 70%
more items listed, and further annotation: "DISABILITY & DEAFNESS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST, A BIBLIOGRAPHY: comprising materials with technical, cultural
and historical relevance to child and adult impairments, disabilities and
deafness, incapacity, mental disorders, special needs, social and
educational responses and rehabilitation; partly annotated." This work is
open online, full text, at:

Click here for a link to CIRRIE (also .pdf)

This revised, retitled and updated bibliography now lists c. 1750 items,
among which 850 are concerned with historical disability.
The aim is to record the cumulative formal knowledge base in the disability
field in countries of the Middle East, especially Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and some smaller neighbours.

Around 45% of the items in the bibliography, listed in the last two sections
with a brief introduction, comprise historical materials of the Middle East
from 1751 to 1970 and from Antiquity to 1750, as an essential and
fascinating part of the cultural background. This earlier material has more
annotation (and so takes about 60% of the total word-count), to enable
potential readers to find the disability-related parts that are sometimes
hidden in odd corners or footnotes, and also to indicate some cultural
features that might be less easily understood nowadays. Greater coverage has
also been given to disability and deafness in Egyptology, Assyriology, and
the Hittite Kingdom in Anatolia.

M. Miles