27. Is there an ftp archive site for Lebanese art works ?
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This article is from the Lebanon FAQ, by Alaa Dakroub dakroub@leb.net with numerous contributions by others.
27. Is there an ftp archive site for Lebanese art works ?
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The domain dhhalden.no changed to hiof.no.
There is an effort undertaken by Barre Ludvigsen and to provide a
multimedia server of cultural material relating to Lebanon and the Middle
East. Material is deposited as it appears and as people contribute.
Everyone is urged to contact Barre Ludvigsen at <borrel@sigallah.hiof.no>
or to directly add to the collection and contribute under the cultural material
heading.
Barre created recently a WWW home page at his site, it's name is :
MultiMedia ftp servers for the Levant, it contains four pointers to the ftp
servers : liasun3.epfl.ch, ftp.hiof.no and rama.poly.edu and
eurecom27.eurecom.fr, also it contains some pointers on WWW pages related to
specific authors/Topics here it's the
address and the contents of this page :
(welcome)
The Levant Cultural MultiMedia Servers
Architecture
Cinema
Cosmetics
Discussion
Egypt
Food
Geography
Humor
Language and literature
Lebanon
Music and song
Peace
Photography
Politics
Postcards
Radio
Religion
Syria
Other sources
The why's and wherefores:
These web pages have been set up to give Internet users a more or less structured
approach to some of the multimedia cultural material on Lebanon and the Levant
we've collected and located on the net since the summer of 1992. "We" being Berthe
Choueiry, Bassem Medawar (Bassem's homepage),Alaa Dakroub (Alaa's homepage)
and myself.
Yes, I know there's one country of the Levant which is conspicuously absent from the
server. My excuse is that I have very little knowledge of the country, nor do I have the
same interest as I have for the others. This is not so much a matter of bias as one of
happenstance. Lebanon was my home for 20 of the first 25 years of my life. It gave
me somewhere to call home, 2 other languages, a sense of cultural tolerance and
insight, a country to mourn and hope to nurture anew.
If you have something to contribute or something to complain about, send me a note.
The purpose of the server is not merely nostalgic. It's meant to be a repository and
guide to all manner of information with cultural relevance to the Lebanon in
particular and the Levant in general.
For my part, this project started in 1992 with a series of contributions to Berthe's ftp
server at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, Switzerland. Since then various other sites have been discoveredor come on
line. Some are ftp sites, others WWW sites.
Most of the material linked in these web pages reside on our anonynous ftp server,
ftp.hiof.no (158.36.33.3) in Halden, Norway. This is so that those without WWW
access can retrieve material either with ftp or mail ftp. However, some material is
found on this WWW server and the other servers concerned with Lebanon and the
Levant:
eurecom27.eurecom.fr
Alaa Dakroub's ftp server. Contains SCL stuff, Lebanon FAQs and back issues
of Leb-Net News.
ftp.hiof.no
Contains pictures, texts, tourist brochures and is a companion server to
liasun3.epfl.ch. Its home is at the Østfold Regional College in Halden, Norway
and maintained by Barre Ludvigsen. All the material i Halden is linked on
these web pages.
rama.poly.edu
The "Sounds of Lebanon" site contains audio data, the scl FAQ and some other
things from soc.culture.lebanon, Arabic language editors and various other
material. It's maintained by Bassem Medawar at the Polytechnic University of
New York's Farmingdale, Long Island campus.
liasun3.epfl.ch
Note: Due to space constraints all the Levant files on the liasun3.epfl.ch
server have been moved to ftp.hiof.no pub/levant
Is situated at the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland and contains lots of wonderful pictures,
texts, songs (arabic text and audio), maps, animations, etc. This is the original
cultural multimedia server for Lebanon and the Levant, established in August
1992, courtesy of Berthe Choueiry.
http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/webdoc/levant_servers.html
MultiMedia ftp servers for the Levant
Barre will be happy to help anyone who feels they might have
something to contribute.
There is another WWW home page, managed by Barre also, it contains a nice set
of pictures from Lebanon contributed by Elie Wardini.
Address : http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/webdoc/elies_pictures.html
For more details of the contents of the ftp directories please try to read the
README files and the Index files.
A set of pictures of the AUB (American University of Beirut) are availble
via gopher. The address is :
gopher://libra.arch.umich.edu/11/AUB
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