Postcolonial Arab novel

Links:

Egypt Country Study (LOC) (other countries also located here)

Map of Middle East and North Africa

Interactive timeline of Middle Eastern history since 1900

Arab (wikipedia)

Arabic language (wikipedia)

Arab culture and civilization (NITLE Arab World Project)

History of Islam (wikipedia)

History of Islamic Civilization (BBC)

Chronological history of Islam to present

Another set of histories of Islamic civilization

Islamic Chronology