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• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  • Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES)
  • SOFIES--Society of Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies
  
  
• Addis Ababa University--Faculty of Technology (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  This is a web page under construction, with general contact information and the promise of something more extensive.
  
  
• 5th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), August 7-11, 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University)
  Warning: the official web site may not always be accessible. For brief information on the 5th Congress, see also: WOCAL Home Page (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• African Telematics Symposium, Addis Ababa, 1995 (University of Pennsylvania)
  The electronic version of the full proceedings of the conference held on April 3-7, 1995 in Addis Ababa.
  
  
• AFROMET: Association for the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (2000) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  Essays (by historian Richard Pankhurst), opinion pieces, and a petition -- no images -- for the return of the art treasures (royal crowns, manuscripts, etc.) stolen from Maqdala by the British Napier expedition in 1868.
  
  
• Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991) -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Electronic plain text version posted by Alan Light.
  
  
• Amharic on the Internet
  • African Language.Com's Amharic Language Tutorial Programs (Anaheim, California)
    Warning: this is a commercial site.
    Tutorial materials for Tigrinya, Oromo, and Somali are also available.
  • Ethiopic.Com (Ethiopian Computers & Software, Littleton, Colorado; in association with Fettan Graphics Corp., Washington, DC)
    The web site features downloadable Ge'ez fonts and other products, plus extensive links to articles and related information on the Web about the Amharic language and Ethiopia.
  • Tsehai Loves Learning (Abshiro Group, USA; in association with Whiz Kids Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
    A website featuring information about educational videos (DVD format), TV programs in Amharic from Ethiopia, and public events in the USA for teaching Amharic to (Ethiopian) children.
  
  
• Inventaire des Bibliothèques et des Catalogues de Manuscrits Ethiopiens, le 24 avril 2004. Par Anaïs Wion, Marie-Laure Derat et Claire Bosc-Tiessé. (Ménestrel--medievistes sur l'internet, sources, travaux, references en ligne, Paris) en format PDF
  
  
• Brooklyn College Library: The Robert L. Hess Collections on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa -and- the Continent of Africa (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)
  A very brief description is provided, with contact information. See also, the CUNY--Brooklyn College online catalog.
  
  
• Centre français des études éthiopiennes (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Voir ci-dessous.
  
  
• Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: Official Site for the Project (via Institut für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg, Germany)
  This English language website describes the project, its scope, guidelines, bibliography of reference sources, and related links.
  
  
• Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict Home Page (Amba Gishen site; via GeoCities)
  This webpage offers selected news from a variety of sources, historical essays, editorials, opinions, maps, and useful links; plus, image files of different parts of north-central Ethiopia in 1996. The general tone of the collection favors the official Ethiopian version of the causes of the conflict. (Originally, 'an experimental personal webpage consisting of a miscellaneous collection of items about Ethiopia, but eventually intended to display information for people interested in establishing businesses in Ethiopia.')
  
  
• The Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict of 1998 and Selected Historical Documents & Map (1891-1908) (Prof. Habte Ghebre-Ab, University of Cincinnati History Forum; via GeoCities)
  
  
• Ethiopia through Russian eyes: Excerpts from Alexander K Bulatovich's "With the armies of Menelik: journal of an expedition from Ethiopia to Lake Rudolf," circa 1900. (Richard Seltzer, West Roxbury, Mass.)
  
  
• Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity (Prof. Ray A. Silverman et al., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  The site offers profiles on contemporary Ethiopian artists and current news about "the expressive cultures of Ethiopia", plus information and some images from a 1994 art exhibition held at Michigan State University.
  
  
• Ethiopian Economic Association (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  This site offers general information about the association; useful links for economists; and full-text articles from:
  -- Papers presented at the 5th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy (June 2007)
  -- 4th International Conference (June 2006)
  -- See: Call for Papers for 6th International Conference, June 2008. Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2008.
  -- See also: Selections from: The Ethiopian journal of economics.: Vols. I-VII (April 1992-April 2005)
  
  
  
• EthnoAtlas Culture Summaries (Centre for Social Anthropology & Computing, University of Kent)
  (These text files, created in January 1995, are based on information from old monographs and reference works published in the 1970s or earlier)
  • Amhara
  • Somali
  
  
• Forum for Social Studies (FSS) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • [Registered in 1998] "A group of Ethiopian researchers, academics, and professionals has taken the initiative to establish an independent research institution. The main objective of FSS will be to undertake in-depth research on issues of development and social change in Ethiopia, and to provide a public forum for the discussion of such issues."
  • FSS List of Publications (with some sample issues, TOCs, or abstracts)
  • "Water resource development in Ethiopia: issues of sustainability and participation," by Dessalegn Rahmato (June 1999) FSS discussion paper. (via Media Ethiopia.Com, USA)
  • Brief papers (via Media Ethiopia.Com, USA)
    -- "Think tanks in Ethiopia?" by Dessalegn Rahmato
    -- "The social reformers of early twentieth century Ethiopia" by Bahru Zewde
  
  
• France. Ministère des affaires étrangères: Centre français des études éthiopiennes (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  Sur ce site, on peut lire quelque choses aux activités et aux publications du centre et dans le domaine des études éthiopiennes surtout en Ethiopie et en Europe. Le site est en français ou en anglais.
  
  
• Images of Ethiopia (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  A small library of historical sites, ceremonies and other images in GIF format...from highland Ethiopia.
  
  
• International Bureau of Education = Bureau de l'Education International: Ethiopia (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • The development of education: national report of Ethiopia, March 2001. (Ethiopia, National Agency for UNESCO. 46th Session of the International Conference on Education, Geneva, 5-8 September, 2001) PDF format.
  • Documents & resources on Ethiopia (Reports and statistics)
  
  
• Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • This website provides general information to the activities of the institute, its library and museum collections, and conference information.
  • VI International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, 5-8 November 2002, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    A brief "call for papers" and contact information.
  
  
• XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, July 21-25, 2003, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany (via Hamburg University, Asia-Africa Institute, Hamburg, Germany)
  The webpage includes general information, "call for papers", conference registration form, previous conference information, and related links. The deadline for abstracts was June 15, 2002.
  
  
• The Kebra Negast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (I)...translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1932). Internet Sacred Text Archive. (Christopher M. Weimer, September 2002)
  
  
• Map "Partie de la Haute Ethiopia ou sont l'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie, &c.," par N. Sanson d'Abberi, Geog. du Roi (France), 1658 (Cornell Geographic Information System, Institute for the Study of Continents, Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)
  A GIF file, from a small collection of maps mostly on the Middle East and North Africa. See also, the larger Cornell GIS Web site.
  
  
• Media Ethiopia.Com (Samuel Kinde Kassegne et al., San Diego, California)
  Formerly "Ethiopians on the Web": An extensive web site on Ethiopian affairs, with current news and debates, historical and cultural topics, book reviews, discussions by and about Ethiopian writers and artists, and a host of related links.
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art -- African Art Timeline: Aksum (1st to 7th century A.D.) (New York)
  A very brief summary of ancient Ethiopian architectural and religious art history, with a few images and maps.
  
  
• Ethiopian Music and Dance Performance: Abonesh Adnew and Company -- June 20, 2004 (Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, Washington, DC) RealPlayer required.
  This is an "About the Artist" web page, with a link to a full length video of the "International Refugee Day" performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
  
  
• North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
  (New York)
  Reports covering the period since 1998 on the situation in Ethiopia and Israel; and requests for humanitarian support.
  
  
• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • General information about the organization and its activities and publications. "OSSREA was established in April 1980, held its Firsct Congress in June 1983, and celebrated its Tenth Anniversary, in conjunction with its Third Congress, in Kampala, Uganda, in May 1990...Its current membership is drawn from 11 countries, but its constitution opens membership to social scientists in 18 countries ... and institutional membership is open to all institutions, within or outside the region."
  • OSSREA Publications
    This section offers information about publications and selected online versions, including:
    -- OSSREA newsletter. (Online) since February 2002.
  • OSSREA 8th Congress "Call for Abstracts"--International Aid, Trade and Development in Africa: The Search for a Development Paradigm, 21-23 November 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    The deadline for "abstracts": August 31, 2005.
  
  
• Oromo Studies Association (Silver Spring, Maryland)
  "[Founded in 1996, the OSA] is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, nonprofit organization, established by Oromo and non-Oromo scholars to promote studies on and relevant to the Oromo people."
  
  
• Dr. Richard Pankhurst Essay Collection on Ethiopia and Eritrea in History (via Civic Webs Virtual Library, USA)
  • "A History of early twentieth century Ethiopia" (1997). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper, January-May 1997.
  • "History of northern Ethiopia -- and the establishment of the Italian colony of Eritrea" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper on February 19, 1999.
  • "A brief history of trade and business in Ethiopia from ancient to modern times" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper in June 1999.
  • "Ethiopia across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper in May 1999.
  • See also: Addis Tribune. (Online)--Archive of Articles, 2000-2004
  
  
• Return our Obelisk!: The campaign for the return of the Aksum obelisk from Italy to Ethiopia, 1996-2005
  
  Reports concerning the fate of the Aksum obelisk seized by the Italians in 1937 during their colonial conquest and occupation of Ethiopia.
  
  • BBC News--"Obelisk arrives back in Ethiopia (May 28, 2002--April 25, 2005) ; --"New snag slows obelisk's return" (Feb. 12, 2004) ; --"Ethiopia keenly awaits obelisk's return" (Feb. 9, 2004) ; --"Rome obelisk set for African return" (Nov 8, 2003) ; and --"Rome obelisk prepares for journey home" (Oct 10, 2003) (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  • See also: UNESCO World Heritage Centre news below for expected "re-installation" in 2008!
  
  
• Sankofa.Com (Washington, DC)
  A promotional site for the films of Haile Gerima and his film company, Mypheduh Films. Gerima is an Ethiopian-born filmmaker who came to the US in 1967 and has directed and/or produced such films as "Sankofa", "Ashes and Embers", "Bush Mama", and "Harvest 3,000 Years".
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art (Washington, DC)
  • "Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora", May 2 - October 5, 2003
    The website features videos and images by "10 artists, from across several generations, who have addressed issues of identity, experienced displacement and created new 'homelands'. Their artworks span the media--from paintings, mixed media, photography and digital prints to ceramic and papier mâché sculptures, murals and on-site installations."
  • "Ethiopian Icons: Faith and Science", January 31 - October 3, 2003 Exhibition
    The website includes Ethiopian Orthodox Christian icons from the 17th to the 19th centuries, color images of six icons and processional crosses, with a brief curator's introduction and a description of recent conservation efforts at the museum. See also, a short bibliography.
  
  
• Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa: "The Indigenous and the Foreign: The Jesuit Presence in 17th Century Ethiopia" (Lisbon, Portugal)
  An electronic exhibition of photographs of art, architecture, manuscripts, books, illustrations, etc., with historical summaries and contact information.
  
  
• South Omo Research Center, Jinka, Ethiopia (via Universität Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany)
  • The website includes general information about conferences and workshops at the center and about Southern Ethiopian cultures, as well as featuring publications by researchers. "The South Omo Research Center and Forum for Transcultural Understanding has been created as part of the new policy of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, which supports the development of new research centers in different regions of Ethiopia."
  
  
• Tadias magazine. (Online): History Archive -- New York: Tadias, 2007-
  An Ethiopian-American online magazine which includes contributions from scholars and journalists on historical topics such as: St. Yared of Ancient Axum & Ethiopian Orthodox Christian musical traditions; Ethiopian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem; Lalibela; Taamrat Emmanuel,
  Melaku E. Bayen & John Robinson, etc.
  
  
• Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936-2006)
  • "Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin of Ethiopia: a short walk through his literary park" by Negussay Ayele (Ethiopians.Com, California)
  • "An Ethiopian hero: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936-2006)" by Richard Pankhurst (OpenDemocracy.Net, London, UK)
  • "Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Playwright: list of plays & biographical information (Doollee.Com, UK)
  • "Tribute to Tsegaye Gabre Medhin": a short selection of his poems (via Tezeta.Org)
  
  
• 3rd Annual International Tsehai Conference July 2008, "Ethiopia's Youth, Ethiopia's Future," Washington, DC Co-sponsored by the Ethiopian Heritage Foundation
  The deadline for proposals is April 1, 2008. This site also features highlights from conferences held in previous years.
  
  
• Tsehai Publishers & Distributors (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California)
  Tsehai specializes in publications about Ethiopia and by Ethiopian authors...including reprints of classic works of Ethiopian history.
  
  
• UNESCO--United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: World Heritage
  • "Re-installation of the Aksum Obelisk..." [Expected September 10, 2008] UNESCO World Heritage Centre News & Events
    
    
  • International Campaign to Safeguard the Principal Monuments and Sites of Ethiopia
    
    
  • Africa Revisited = Nouveaux regards sur l'Afrique (An overview of African history, archaeology, and cultures, with brief summaries, illustrations, and photos.)
    See: Final Report (80 pages in English and French, PDF format)-- Includes "Christians in Ethiopia" (Compiled by Bertrand Hirsch)
  • World Heritage Site in Danger: Simeon National Park
  • Other Sites in Ethiopia:
    -- Lalibela
    -- Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar
    -- Aksum
    -- Harar Jugol, Fortified Historic Town
    -- Lower Awash Valley
    -- Lower Omo Valley
    -- Tiya, Soddo region
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