Resource Library

All course readings, tools, platforms, and media organized by theme. The intellectual bibliography of the course.

Spring 2021 142 resources across 11 themes
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Archives & Digitization

30

Digital preservation, access, and the politics of the archive

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Fetishization of Archeology: 3D Printing Palmyra Arch in NYC ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 1
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Interactive: Palmyra after ISIS ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 1
Explore
Triumphal Arch of Palmyra — City Hall NYC ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 1
Explore
List of monuments damaged by conflict in the Middle East during the 21st century ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing
Suggested Class 1
Project
Palestinian Poster Project ↗

Image & Visual Methods Platforms & Projects
Required Class 2
Project
KITAB — Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book ↗

Text Analysis Platforms & Projects
Required Class 3
Project
The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) ↗

Text Analysis Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 3
Explore
Hathi Trust (OCR and historical access) ↗

Text Analysis Data & Datasets
Required Class 5
Project
Afghanistan Digital Library ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 5
Project
Syrian Archive ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing Platforms & Projects
Required Class 6
Project
Arab Image Foundation ↗

Image & Visual Methods Platforms & Projects
Required Class 7
Project
AKKASAH — Center for Photography (NYUAD) ↗

Image & Visual Methods Platforms & Projects
Required Class 7
Explore
Google Arts & Culture ↗

Image & Visual Methods Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 7
Project
Qajar Women's Project ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 8
Project
SOGDIANS ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 8
Explore
Middle East Visual Culture (Duke) ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 8
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Visual Sources in MENA and Islamic Studies (HAZINE) ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 8
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Islamic Manuscript Studies (University of Michigan) ↗

Suggested Class 8
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Al-Musawwar (AUC Egypt) ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Sources for Historical Photographs (Library of Congress) ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Qatar Digital Library ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 11
Explore
Corona Historical Satellite Footage ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Suggested Class 12
Explore
US National Archives (DC) ↗

Suggested Class 12
Read
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities ↗

Allington, Brouillette, & Golumbia (2016)

Digital Humanities
Required Class 8
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David Rumsey — Historical Maps ↗

David Rumsey

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 11
Read
YouTube Is Erasing History ↗

Hadi Al Khatib & Dia Kayyali (2019)

Human Rights & Witnessing Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 6
Read
The Politics of Mass Digitization (CH 1) ↗

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Data & Datasets
Suggested Class 5
Read
Digital Witness — Intro & CH 1 ↗

Oxford (2020)

Human Rights & Witnessing
Required Class 6
Read
Listening to Images (Introduction) ↗

Tina Campt

Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 8
Read
How Google Book Search Got Lost ↗

Wired (2017)

Data & Datasets
Suggested Class 5

Data & Datasets

25

Data as method, datasets, OCR, digitized corpora

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Enter the Dragnet (LAPD Database) ↗

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 2
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OpenAI: DALL-E ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 2
Tool
Sentiment Viz (Twitter Visualization) ↗

Text Analysis
Required Class 3
Tool
Google Books Ngram Viewer ↗

Text Analysis
Required Class 3
Listen
Saving Sea Level Records ↗

Required Class 5
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Hathi Trust (OCR and historical access) ↗

Text Analysis Archives & Digitization
Required Class 5
Tool
Netlytic — Social Network Text Analyzer ↗

Text Analysis Networks
Required Class 5
Read
WHY AN AGE OF MACHINE LEARNING NEEDS THE HUMANITIES ↗

Digital Humanities
Required Class 6
Project
Bellingcat + Forensic Architecture ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing
Required Class 6
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Computer Vision Explorer (upload image, try different algorithms) ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 5, 7
Read
Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 8
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twXplorer ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 8
Explore
Image Analytics and the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Newspaper ↗

Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 8
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The Pudding — Visual Essays ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
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FlowingData — Data Visualization ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
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Information is Beautiful ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
Tool
Flourish — Data Visualization & Storytelling ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
Tool
Tableau — Data Analysis & Visualization ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
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Survival of the Best Fit (Gamification) ↗

Digital Storytelling Surveillance & Ethics
Required Class 12
Read
Creating Data (GUIDED TOUR TO THE VISUAL LIBRARY, 1850-1950) ↗

Ben Schmidt

Text Analysis
Required Class 5
Read
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable ↗

Lara Putnam (2014)

Text Analysis
Required Class 5
Read
The Politics of Mass Digitization (CH 1) ↗

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 5
Read
Algorithms of Oppression ↗

Safiya Umoja Noble (2019)

Surveillance & Ethics Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 8
Read
Science fiction hasn't prepared us to imagine machine learning ↗

Ted Underwood (2021)

Digital Humanities
Required Class 7
Read
How Google Book Search Got Lost ↗

Wired (2017)

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 5

Digital Humanities

31

Computational methods applied to humanistic inquiry

Project
Medieval Trade Networks v4 ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 1
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Fetishization of Archeology: 3D Printing Palmyra Arch in NYC ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 1
Explore
Interactive: Palmyra after ISIS ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 1
Explore
Triumphal Arch of Palmyra — City Hall NYC ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 1
Explore
COBOL Coding and Unemployment Debacle ↗

Suggested Class 2
Explore
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (Network Analysis) ↗

Networks
Suggested Class 2
Project
Linked Jazz ↗

Networks
Suggested Class 3
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Digital Ottoman Studies ↗

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 3
Explore
DroneWars & GPT-3 ↗

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 5
Read
WHY AN AGE OF MACHINE LEARNING NEEDS THE HUMANITIES ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 6
Explore
AI Dungeon (GPT-3 to Text) ↗

Text Analysis
Suggested Class 6
Explore
NFTs — Nyan Cat Meme Selling ↗

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 6
Explore
NYU Library GIS Workshops ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Suggested Class 10
Read
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities ↗

Allington, Brouillette, & Golumbia (2016)

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 8
Read
Digital Transformation initiatives in the GCC region ↗

Deloitte (2017)

Suggested Class 2
Read
The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies ↗

Elias Muhanna (2016)

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 2
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Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond ↗

Hazine

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 2
Read
Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship ↗

Johanna Drucker (2020)

Required Class 2
Read
The Humanities, Done Digitally ↗

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2020)

Required Class 2
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Digital Resources for Middle Eastern History ↗

Kathryn Schwartz

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 2
Read
Series on Digital Humanities ↗

LA Review of Books

Suggested Class 2
Read
Digital Middle East ↗

McKinsey (2016)

Suggested Class 2
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Digital Scholarship Interest Group Resource List ↗

Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 2
Read
The radical potential of the Digital Humanities ↗

Miriam Posner (2015)

Required Class 2
Read
Text Analysis: A Walking Tour of What People are Using in Digital Humanities Right Now ↗

Miriam Posner (2021)

Text Analysis
Required Class 3
Watch
EXPLAINED: CODE

Netflix (2019)

Required Class 2
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Digital Humanities Library Guide ↗

NYUAD

Suggested Class 2
Read
Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities ↗

Stephen Ramsay & Geoffrey Rockwell (2020)

Required Class 3
Read
The History of Humanities Computing ↗

Susan Hockey

Text Analysis
Required Class 3
Read
Science fiction hasn't prepared us to imagine machine learning ↗

Ted Underwood (2021)

Data & Datasets
Required Class 7
Explore
Middle Eastern and North African Studies — Digital Scholarship / Digital Humanities ↗

University of Michigan

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 2

Image & Visual Methods

23

Computer vision, distant viewing, visual culture methodologies

Project
Palestinian Poster Project ↗

Archives & Digitization Platforms & Projects
Required Class 2
Explore
OpenAI: DALL-E ↗

Data & Datasets
Suggested Class 2
Explore
NYTimes Facial AI Creation ↗

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 2
Project
Forensic Architecture: Saydnaya Prison ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing
Required Class 6
Explore
DeepTomCruise + Deep Nostalgia (Deepfakes) ↗

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 6
Watch
Age of the Image: Part 4 — Fake Images ↗

Required Class 7
Explore
Computer Vision Explorer (upload image, try different algorithms) ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 5, 7
Project
Arab Image Foundation ↗

Archives & Digitization Platforms & Projects
Required Class 7
Project
AKKASAH — Center for Photography (NYUAD) ↗

Archives & Digitization Platforms & Projects
Required Class 7
Explore
Google Arts & Culture ↗

Archives & Digitization Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 7
Explore
Deepfakes (NYTimes) ↗

(2021)

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 7
Read
Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 8
Explore
Middle East Visual Culture (Duke) ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Visual Sources in MENA and Islamic Studies (HAZINE) ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Al-Musawwar (AUC Egypt) ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Sources for Historical Photographs (Library of Congress) ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 8
Explore
Image Analytics and the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Newspaper ↗

Data & Datasets
Suggested Class 8
Project
Visualizing Palestine 101 ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 12
Read
Visual Methodologies — CH: Researching with Visual Material (Pg 1-23) ↗

Gillian Rose (2016)

Required Class 7
Read
Image Activism After the Arab Uprisings: 'Image-as-Forensic-Evidence' ↗

Kari Anden-Papadopoulos (2020)

Human Rights & Witnessing
Suggested Class 6
Read
An archetypal digital witness: the child figure and media conflict over Syria ↗

Omar Al-Ghazzi (2019)

Human Rights & Witnessing
Suggested Class 6
Read
Algorithms of Oppression ↗

Safiya Umoja Noble (2019)

Surveillance & Ethics Data & Datasets
Required Class 8
Read
Listening to Images (Introduction) ↗

Tina Campt

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 8

Maps & Spatial Analysis

30

GIS, critical cartography, counter-mapping, spatial history

Listen
How we Found Ourselves ↗

Required Class 10
Read
What is the Spatial Turn (find two fields of personal interest) ↗

Required Class 10
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Spatial History Lab Projects (find ONE to present) ↗

Required Class 10
Read
What Do Maps Really Do? ↗

Required Class 10
Project
LevantCarta (Lebanon) ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 10
Project
Hammer / al-Midaq (Egypt) ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 10
Project
Istanbul Urban Database (Turkey) ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 10
Project
Palestine Open Maps ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 10
Explore
NYU Library GIS Workshops ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 10
Explore
Native Land Digital ↗

Suggested Class 10
Explore
GPS Networks (Russia's GLONASS, EU's Galileo, China's BeiDou) ↗

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 10
Listen
The U.S. Dependence On GPS Has Created A New Vulnerability ↗

(2021)

Surveillance & Ethics
Required Class 11
Explore
Syrians in New York: Mapping Movement, 1900-1930 ↗

Required Class 11
Explore
Qatar Digital Library ↗

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 11
Read
The People, Place, and Space Reader: Section 9 — The Social Production of Space and Time ↗

Required Class 11
Project
858 (Mapping Project) ↗

Platforms & Projects
Required Class 11
Project
HarassMap ↗

Platforms & Projects Surveillance & Ethics
Required Class 11
Tool
ArcGIS ↗

Required Class 11
Tool
ArcGIS StoryMaps ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 11
Tool
Mapbox ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 11, 12
Project
Beirut Urban Lab ↗

Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 12
Explore
Corona Historical Satellite Footage ↗

Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 12
Read
Mapping Through the Ages ↗

Caitlin Dempsey (2011)

Required Class 11
Read
Space as a Keyword ↗

David Harvey

Required Class 11
Explore
David Rumsey — Historical Maps ↗

David Rumsey

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 11
Read
The Production of Space (CH 1) ↗

Henri Lefebvre (1991)

Suggested Class 11
Read
Spatial History ↗

Richard White

Required Class 10
Read
Towards an Anthropological theory of space and place ↗

Setha Low (2009)

Suggested Class 11
Explore
Mapping the Field (Syllabus) ↗

Shannon Mattern

Suggested Class 10
Read
Mapping Ottoman Damascus Through News Reports (in Muhanna DH book) ↗

Till Grallert

Text Analysis
Suggested Class 11

Networks

10

Network analysis, visualization, social network structures

Explore
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (Network Analysis) ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 2
Project
Linked Jazz ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 3
Tool
Netlytic — Social Network Text Analyzer ↗

Text Analysis Data & Datasets
Required Class 5
Explore
Movie Galaxy ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 13
Read
Are Some Things Unrepresentable? ↗

Alexander Galloway

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 13
Read
Formal network methods in history: why and how? ↗

Claire Lemercier

Required Class 13
Explore
Introduction to Network Analysis and Representation ↗

Elijah Meeks & Maya Krishnan

Suggested Class 13
Read
From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks ↗

Marten Düring

Required Class 13
Explore
Introduction to GEPHI + Working with GEPHI ↗

Martin Grandjean

Suggested Class 13
Read
Demystifying Networks ↗

Scott Weingart

Required Class 13

Platforms & Projects

36

Digital platforms, databases, and projects in Middle Eastern Studies

Project
Medieval Trade Networks v4 ↗

Digital Humanities
Required Class 1
Project
Palestinian Poster Project ↗

Archives & Digitization Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 2
Project
KITAB — Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book ↗

Text Analysis Archives & Digitization
Required Class 3
Project
The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) ↗

Text Analysis Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 3
Explore
Digital Ottoman Studies ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 3
Project
Afghanistan Digital Library ↗

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 5
Project
Syrian Archive ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing Archives & Digitization
Required Class 6
Project
Forensic Oceanography ↗

Human Rights & Witnessing
Required Class 6
Explore
NFTs — Nyan Cat Meme Selling ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 6
Project
Arab Image Foundation ↗

Archives & Digitization Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 7
Project
AKKASAH — Center for Photography (NYUAD) ↗

Archives & Digitization Image & Visual Methods
Required Class 7
Explore
Google Arts & Culture ↗

Archives & Digitization Image & Visual Methods
Suggested Class 7
Explore
twXplorer ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 8
Project
Qajar Women's Project ↗

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 8
Project
SOGDIANS ↗

Archives & Digitization
Required Class 8
Project
LevantCarta (Lebanon) ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 10
Project
Hammer / al-Midaq (Egypt) ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 10
Project
Istanbul Urban Database (Turkey) ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 10
Project
Palestine Open Maps ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 10
Project
858 (Mapping Project) ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Required Class 11
Project
HarassMap ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis Surveillance & Ethics
Required Class 11
Tool
Knight Labs (Timeline, Juxtapose, Soundcite) ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 7, 12
Tool
Cargo Collective ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 12
Tool
Readymag ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 12
Tool
Wix ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 12
Tool
Squarespace ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 12
Tool
WordPress ↗

Digital Storytelling
Suggested Class 12
Project
Beirut Urban Lab ↗

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Suggested Class 12
Project
Filming Revolution ↗

Digital Storytelling
Required Class 13
Read
The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies ↗

Elias Muhanna (2016)

Digital Humanities
Required Class 2
Read
YouTube Is Erasing History ↗

Hadi Al Khatib & Dia Kayyali (2019)

Human Rights & Witnessing Archives & Digitization
Suggested Class 6
Explore
Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond ↗

Hazine

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 2
Explore
Digital Resources for Middle Eastern History ↗

Kathryn Schwartz

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 2
Read
Digital Suspicion, Politics, and the Middle East ↗

Kuntsman & Stein (2011)

Surveillance & Ethics
Suggested Class 6
Explore
Digital Scholarship Interest Group Resource List ↗

Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 2
Explore
Middle Eastern and North African Studies — Digital Scholarship / Digital Humanities ↗

University of Michigan

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 2

Text Analysis

24

Computational approaches to reading and analyzing text corpora

Project
KITAB — Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book ↗

Platforms & Projects Archives & Digitization
Required Class 3
Tool
Voyant Tools (Text Analysis) ↗

Required Class 3, 5
Tool
Sentiment Viz (Twitter Visualization) ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 3
Tool
TAPoR — Text Analysis Portal ↗

Required Class 3
Tool
Google Books Ngram Viewer ↗

Data & Datasets
Required Class 3
Explore
Voyant Tools — Guide & Documentation ↗

Suggested Class 3
Tool
NgramReader+ Lite for Classical Arabic Corpus ↗

Suggested Class 3
Explore
Sentiment Analysis in Arabic ↗

Suggested Class 3
Project
The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) ↗

Archives & Digitization Platforms & Projects
Suggested Class 3
Tool
ATLAS.ti — Qualitative Data Analysis ↗

Suggested Class 3
Explore
Hathi Trust (OCR and historical access) ↗

Data & Datasets Archives & Digitization
Required Class 5
Read
Why Read with a Computer (+ selection) ↗

Required Class 5
Tool
Netlytic — Social Network Text Analyzer ↗

Data & Datasets Networks
Required Class 5
Explore
AI Dungeon (GPT-3 to Text) ↗

Digital Humanities
Suggested Class 6
Read
Creating Data (GUIDED TOUR TO THE VISUAL LIBRARY, 1850-1950) ↗

Ben Schmidt

Data & Datasets
Required Class 5
Tool
jsLDA — In-Browser Topic Modeling ↗

David Mimno

Suggested Class 3
Explore
Introduction to Text Analysis: Analysis Methods and Tools ↗

Duke University Library

Required Class 5
Read
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable ↗

Lara Putnam (2014)

Data & Datasets
Required Class 5
Read
Canons, Close Reading, and the Evolution of Method ↗

Matthew Wilkens (2020)

Required Class 3
Read
Text Analysis: A Walking Tour of What People are Using in Digital Humanities Right Now ↗

Miriam Posner (2021)

Digital Humanities
Required Class 3
Read
The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies ↗

Nan Z. Da (2019)

Suggested Class 5
Read
The History of Humanities Computing ↗

Susan Hockey

Digital Humanities
Required Class 3
Read
Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text ↗

Ted Underwood (2015)

Required Class 3
Read
Mapping Ottoman Damascus Through News Reports (in Muhanna DH book) ↗

Till Grallert

Maps & Spatial Analysis
Suggested Class 11