Middle East & Islamic Studies Resources

Middle East News Resources

Blogs

Blogs from Lebanon and Israel

bloggingbeirut.com
The Lebanese Bloggers
Lebanon Blogs
The J Blogosphere
The Muqata: Israel @ War
Lebanese Blogger Forum
Israellycool
On the Face (Tel Aviv)
Beirut Under Siege
The Arabist
Beirut Spring
West Bank Blog
Raising Yousouf: diary of a mother under occupation

Blogs from Iraq

Baghdad Burning - Girl Blog from Iraq

Databases

Multidata Online

MultiDataOnline provides full text from and bibliographic citations to selected newspapers and periodicals from the Arab world in Arabic, English, and French. MultiDataOnline consists of five databases: 1."General News" provides full text and covers 52 dailies and weeklies since 1994; 2. "Specialized Periodicals" provides bibliographic citations from more than 225 specialized Arabic periodicals since 1920; 3. "Reviews" provides full text book reviews from more than 250 newspapers and magazines in the Arab world from 1998; 4. "Theses" provides a subject index to theses submitted to 21 Lebanese institutions of higher learning; and, 5. "Index Arabicus" documents the contents of 42 Arabic periodicals published between 1870 and 1969. The database has both Arabic and English interfaces.

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