Internet Resources for Middle Eastern Studies
WWW Gateways
News
Country Specific Sites
The following newspapers, seach engines, and other sites are specific to one (or more) of the countries in the Middle East.
- Afghan Daily
- Afghanistan Online
"The biggest, and most visited Afghan web site on the World Wide Web."
- (Bahrain) Gulf Daily
News
"The Voice of Bahrain" has local and world news, business information,
and sports.
- Bahrain Tribune Daily
"leading English newspaper in Bahrain."
- (Egypt) Cairo Times News-magazine
(subject to state censorship)
- (Egypt) Al-Ahram
Weekly Online
- (Egypt) Middle
East Times
Weekly newspaper.
- Cameroon News
- Chad Post
- Echo of Iran Bulletin
- Iran Daily
Morning English newspaper in PDF format. Has an archive of the previous
week's news as well.
- IranMania Search Engine
- IranReporter.com
Independent news by reporters on the spot.
- Iran Press Service
"A fully independant and private news gathering and disseminating service."
- Iran Virtual Library
Social political, and economic studies.
- Iraq Daily
- Islamic Republic News Agency
"established as Iran's official national news outlet."
- NetIran
Links to newspapers --a good gateway.
- Pars Times Iran Index
- (Iran) Payvand
Iran News, Directories & Bazaar
- (Israel) Haaretz Daily
An independent, liberal daily paper out of Tel Aviv.
- Jerusalem Post
Delivers breaking news stories everyday, all day. Site also includes searchable
databases, message boards, and polls not found in the print edition.
- Jordan Times
"An independant Arab political daily."
- Kabul Daily
- Lebanon.com
- Lebanon Links
- (Lebanon and Syria)Monday Morning
- Libya Online
"Oldest and
main web portal about Libya."
- Oman Daily Observer
"Oman's largest circulated English newspaper."
- Pakistan Daily
- (Qatar) Gulf Times
- Sudan Infonet
Education and information service on Sudan provided by the Sudan Working
Group.
- Syria Times
English language daily news out of Damascus. Can search the week of newspapers
or browse a specific day.
- Tehran Globe
- TehranTimes.com
An International Daily newspaper with politics, sports, weather, culture,
etc.
- Tunisia Online
"Your digital gateway to news and information on Tunisia."
- Turkish Daily News Online
Headlines, domestic and foreign.
- Zamar Daily Newspaper
- (United Arab Emerates)UAE Pages
- (United Arab Emirates) UAE Interact
Official website of UAE Ministry of Information and Culture. Has History
and Archeology, Wildlife and Environment, Culture and Heritage, and Travel
and Events.
- Gulf News
"Leading English language newspaper of the United Arab Emerates and
takes pride of its solid coverage of the Gulf Region."
- (United Arab Emirates) Khaleej
Times Online
English language daily newspaper from Dubai.
- Western Sahara Online
- Yemen Gateway
News, Weather and Basic Information.
Professional Associations and Projects
International Organizations
Reference Resources
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
The Country Studies/Area Handbook Program is an ongoing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.
- Arabicizing Windows
Instructions created by an instructor at the University of Chicago that explains how to enable Windows applications to read and write Arabic.
This page is maintained by Shelly McCoy, Student Multimedia Design Center.
Last modified: 03/20/09