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Middle East | Middle East--Media and News

Current Events, Media, News:

These are just a few of the many news sources available on the web. The links below will lead to many, many more newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. Inclusion here is not an endorsement of the views expressed by any site, nor an endorsement of the reliability or accuracy of any reporting. Likewise, no sites have been excluded for reasons of content, viewpoint, or other subjective criteria, aside from extremely low quality. These are merely those we have encountered in using the web. Suggestions are welcome.

Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem, has links to news sources on the web.
http://www.passia.org

Al-Jazeera.com has streaming video and audio, as well as articles. The site is now available in Arabic or English, but Arabic can only be viewed using a browser which supports Arabic.
http://www.aljazeera.net

al-Quds.com (in Arabic)
http://www.alquds.com/

ThePaperBoy.com has links to a number of newspapers and other sources of news. http://www.thepaperboy.com/
Arabic language papers on the web.
http://www.thepaperboy.com/countrysearch_new.cfm?PaperLanguageSearch=Arabic

The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) links page provides links to other sites which, in turn, feature links to news and information sources.
http://www.wm.edu/aata

Yahoo News and Media page has links to television, radio and newspapers.
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/

Radio-Locator calls itself "the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."
http://www.radio-locator.com

EurasiaNet "provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia." News sources include a variety of broadcast, print and wire services. Departments include Eurasia Insight, Business and Economics, Human Rights, Environment, Culture, Election Watch, and more. The site "is operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute."
http://www.eurasianet.org

Saudi Press Agency (Arabic)
http://www.spa.gov.sa

Israel Insider, with news and opinion pieces by right wing, left wing, religious and secular authors.
http://www.israelinsider.com

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe allows searching the full text of today's news or searching back more than 20 years; searching full text federal, state & international legal materials; and more.
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/

The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The Middle East Times
http://www.metimes.com

Yahoo country sites usually provide links to news media in and for specific countries.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries

Yahoo!News: World Full Coverage is a continuously updated listing of top news stories, arranged by region.
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/World

Middle East Week in Review is a weekly summary of major events in the region, sent out by e-mail by The Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.
http://www.centerpeace.org

Arab News, "Saudi Arabia's first English Language daily."
http://www.arabnews.com

Palestine Media Watch "The purpose of Palestine Media Watch is to fight anti-Palestinian bias in the US media and to call for giving Palestinian views greater room for expression. Palestine Media Watch is a grass-roots media watch group stablished on October 5, 2000 to help fight US media bias against Palestinians via direct action: writing letters and making phone calls." Links to a variety of articles and editorials, both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian.
http://www.pmwatch.org

The Electronic Intifada project (EI) is an online publication produced by a small network of pro-Palestinian activists with a history of Internet and media activism, focussed on one aspect of the struggle -- the war in the media for a fair representation of the Palestinian point of view.
http://electronicIntifada.net

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, "is a broad-based, non-partisan, global, democratic association of grassroots activists and organizational representatives. Our objective is to educate the international community to fulfill its legal and moral obligations vis-à-vis the Palestinian people."
http://al-awda.org

Media Monitors Network (MMN) is "a non-profit, non-biased and non-political platform which mainly helps to prevail the whole truth and generally facilitate answers to any disputed, controversial topic being broadcast, web cast, published, distributed or telecast in the world media. MMN is seeking for the truth in most critical "hot topics" which can often be twisted by the world media." It is "not sponsored by anyone influential and does this intentionally so that it will not be 'forced' into one opinion or another." "Media Monitors Network believes that independent, aggressive, critical and free Press is essential to an informed democracy. Media Monitors Network fully supports freedom of the Press and strongly encourages independent and investigative journalism, which should never be compromised."
http://www.mediamonitors.net

Iranian, Turkish and many other countries' newspapers online.
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting presents news, sports, etc., in Persian, Arabic and English.
http://www.irib.com

Islamic Republic News Agency In Persian or English.
http://www.irna.com/en/index.shtml (English) and http://www.irna.com/pe/index.shtml (Persian)