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Researching Yemen
Yemen News tries to give readers a
broad, balanced, and objective coverage of one of the least
reported countries on earth. Toward that end, we consult a wide
variety of web sources and, on a daily basis, email our findings
free to subscribers.
One of the best sites we have found
is that run by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies
www.aiys.org
This is a mastersite which contains links to some 200 other
websites devoted to Yemen. Looked at from the standpoint of news
gathering, the AIYS site has some useful contributions to make,
though of varying quality.
Go to the site and click on its
link to Yemen Webdate. That will take you to several other choices,
including Yemen News (no relation to us!). Click that and you will
find an array of news sources to look at. Here is where you will
find the variations in quality.
AIYS sends you to a preset search
engine with a very long address:
www.newsindex.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?query=Yemen&mode=any
We have examined a lot of news search engines and this is not one
of the better ones. We suggest you go instead to
or to even to
both of which provide a much better selection of news items. And,
when we seek out very specialized information, we regularly go to
- a new and extremely versatile search engine.
AIYS also directs you to
- a useful site which we often consult, largely because of its
Arab sourcing and because of its sense of insider reporting.
Another site AIYS points to is
This site gets a mixed review: while it appears to be
comprehensive, balanced, and objective, it actually is fairly
selective, follows the Yemeni government line, and avoids anything
tending toward criticism.
The AIYS site also links to a
number of leading Yemen newspapers, whether government controlled,
opposition controlled or independent. Of the independents,
Al-Ayyam is by far the best. Among the English-language newspapers,
AIYS offers three: The Yemen Observer (opposition-run) at
Yemen Observer (government-run)
and The Yemen Times (independent)
Finding up-to-date news on Yemen is
for us a daily job. Filtering through the thousands of web pages
devoted to Yemen is time-consuming and not always rewarding. But,
when looking for good background material on almost any subject to
do with Yemen, we find the AIYS site a good place both to start
and to end up. In our book, it gets a five-star rating.
Author: Eric Watkins is a
London-based commentator, specializing in the Middle East and
Central Asia. He also edits Yemen News. To subscribe to Yemen
News, write: eric.watkins@virgin.net.
(MERIA)
Research Guide: Lebanon
While Lebanon is well represented
on the Internet, the best single resource for researchers is the
Al-Mashriq server
This is hosted by the Informatics Department at Ostfold College,
Norway, and administered by Professor Borre Ludvigsen, formerly a
resident of Lebanon for 20 years.
It earns bouquets for the site's
size, breadth and design. Al-Mashriq is truly a mega-site. With
well over 15,000 multimedia documents, it is the largest
repository of cultural information about Lebanon on the Internet.
Its sections encompass subjects from archaeology and architecture
to weather and World-Wide Web resources. Of particular interest
are the vast photographic archives and map collections, both
historical and contemporary. Its spartan design also avoids the
flowery graphics that increase downloading times.
Al-Mashriq links researchers to
useful academic centers and research institutes. For these, click
on 'Lebanon' on the main page, then 'WWW Resources' and follow the
'Websites in Lebanon' link http: //almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/000/005/leb-domain.
html. This yields a good supply of Lebanese educational,
organizational, and governmental websites.
Two particularly useful sites are
the Digital Documentation Centre
ddc, co-hosted by Al-Mashriq and the American University of Beirut
and the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies
or
an independent research institute based in Beirut. The latter,
founded in 1989 and run by Paul Salem and Michael Young,
researches and hosts conferences on the political, social, and
economic development of Lebanon. It publishes the Lebanon Report,
Abaad, and the Beirut Review periodicals, selected articles from
which are archived on the website. These publications provide
reliable economic data - a difficult thing to come by on Lebanon -
alongside political analysis.
For those requiring up-to-date news
information, follow Al-Mashriq's "Media" link and you will find
the Lebanese Arabic press - for example, al-Anwar
an-Nahar
and as-Safir
These all require a .pdf file reader, such as Acrobat. However,
clicking on the Daily Star link
yields the free Internet version of Lebanon's principal
English-language newspaper. Launched in October 1997 and updated
daily by administrator Ali Mneimneh, this website hosts the full
text of articles, features, opinions, cartoons, and discussions.
On the negative side, Al-Mashriq
purports to cover the entire Levant though almost all the site is
devoted to Lebanon. In terms of search engines, Al-Mashriq does
not link researchers to Edmond Ibrahimian's Lebhost, the first
search engine exclusively dedicated to websites containing
information pertaining to Lebanon. It is also well worth a visit
Its "Media" page also omits the Israeli daily Ha'aretz
or
a useful source for research regarding Israeli perspectives on
Lebanon. Furthermore, the "Media" page does not include the
valuable Institute for Documentation and Research on Lebanon (IDREL)
website
whose free Shufimafi report provides a neat synopsis of the week's
events in Lebanon. 'Shufimafi' is superior to the newswire
provided by its American-made cousin, Lebanon.com
Aside from a section on Hizballah
and some articles and images on Israel's 'Grapes of Wrath'
operation
Al-Mashriq's coverage of the conflict in southern Lebanon is a bit
thin. Best results require both Lebanese and Israeli perspectives.
For the former, the Lebanese 'Resistance' has a well-maintained
official homepage
that includes a daily chronicle of events from the appearance of
an Israeli reconnaissance drone to heavy artillery bombardments,
statistics detailing the results of military operations, and an
alphabetical listing of Hizballah's dead. This website ought to be
visited in conjunction with the glitzy website of Hizballah's
Central Press Office
and the personal homepages of Hizballah's Secretary-General,
Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah
and spiritual guide, Sayyid Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah
For an Israeli perspective, visit
the Israeli Defence Force website
which gives a more detailed perspective than the Israeli Ministry
of Foreign Affairs site
consisting mostly of reference documents and speeches under the "Peace
Process" link. The IDF website offers a chronology of events on
Israeli's northern border and in southern Lebanon, violations of
the "Grapes of Wrath" understandings, and data regarding IDF
casualties. Also worth visiting is the website of the Four Mothers
Movement
il/FourMothers, a rich source of articles of which many are
sympathetic toward Lebanese perspectives.
Despite a few shortcomings, though,
the Al-Mashriq server represents an excellent research tool for
information and analysis on contemporary Lebanon.
Author: Travis Benson is finishing
his Ph.D. at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His
dissertation examines the orientations of Lebanon's Maronite
community. (MERIA)
Research Guide Kuwait
Having been immersed for several
months in the world of Kuwait on the net, I've had to sort out the
good, the bad, and the ugly from among the many sites (and
sections of sites) on the Internet dedicated to Kuwait. So,
forgetting about the bad and the ugly as best I can, what follows
is a brief synopsis of the good.
If you're looking for current
economic news, Al-Shall provides an excellent Weekly Economic
report that is available at
This site is very reliable and is also fairly concise - a nice
weekly read.
For a more in-depth look at Kuwait,
the Library of Congress has a decent page on Kuwait:
If you read Arabic, it's worthwhile to check out the Kuwaiti
newspapers on the web: Al-Qabas at
and Al-Watan at
If you don't read Arabic, until the Arab Times gets on-line, the
only English language newspaper available is the Kuwait Times at
I should note that all of these sites, plus more, are accessible
through the Kuwait Information Office website at
The page is still under development, but it is being updated
continuously and by the time you read this - as the KIO transfers
more and more of its records to the net - the page is sure to
become a comprehensive and valuable site for all levels of
research.
As for governmental sites, in
addition to the State Department Background Notes and CIA world
Factbook, a lesser known U.S. government site is the State
Department's Country Commercial Guide, the most recent is at
Last but not least are the "mo" pages, or "Ministry of...." The
several Kuwaiti ministries that have set up pages have done so
with varying degrees of success. Each of these sites has some good
information, but each also has its fair share of layout problems
and outdated material.
Kuwaiti Ministries:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Information
Ministry of Communications
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Education (Arabic)
Ministry of Planning
Author: Chris Steinitz works at the Kuwait Information Office in
Washington DC, conducting research and helping establish an
informative, comprehensive information site for the KIO on the
Internet. (MERIA)
Research Guide: Armenia
One of the world's most ancient
countries, the Republic of Armenia, can now be researched using
the most modern of methods. In the following websites you can find
interesting, useful and complete information on the policy,
economics, culture, religion of Armenia.
A superior site is that of the
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the United States
There you can find factual materials on Armenia, its cultural
heritage and attractions, and U.S.-Armenia bilateral relations. It
is also very good for its links with many websites in Armenia.
The Armenian News Network/Groong
is good for news about Armenia and its region. Many Armenian
newspapers are available through this site, including Asbarez,
Hayrenik, Armenian Weekly, The California Courier, and others.
News is included from Azeri and Turkish sources. There are also
press releases and event announcements from groups and a calendar
of events posted on Thursday mornings.
Other news sources worth reviewing
are Asbarez's own site
; the SNARK daily news page
; Armenia on-line
; Noyan Tapan Information & Analytical Center
and ArmenPress
The "AZG" newspaper covers daily
news, keeping Nagorno-Karabagh issues in the limelight. It is
widely considered the most useful newspaper and others often
reprint its stories.
Also useful is the Daily News site
Art, culture and history are
featured especially on
This site is notable for its original photographs and more than
700 paintings by Armenian artists. The gallery includes Hovhannes
Aivazovsky, Martiros Saryan, Minas Avetisian, Gevorg Bashinjagyan,
and others.
Regarding strategic and political
issues, the leading Armenian think tank, The Armenian Center for
National and International Studies, has a site with a number of
texts and information on these questions at
The Haik Institute, a Washington-based think tank with an office
in Yerevan, had a number of research studies, exchange programs,
and informational materials.
The Armenian Engineers & Scientists
of America, Inc. (AESA), has information on scientific, energy,
and environmental issues regarding Armenia. One of its projects is
sponsoring the publication of Armenian-language academic books.
The U.S. Armenia Business & Investment Association (USABIA)
focuses on bilateral business, trade, and investment relations.
The world's largest Armenian
website is Cilicia
It has over 375 pages filled with useful information, pictures and
links. The Internet-based on-line Journal Armenian Diasporan
Archives has material, updated periodically, on Armenian
communities throughout the world. But Volume 2 is being devoted
entirely to Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh).
The leading academic organization,
the Society for Armenian Studies
includes studies on all aspects of Armenia past and present. Its
site includes the social, political, and economic questions; to
facilitate the group's newsletter.
Its German-language equivalent is
the Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz published by the
German-Armenian Society, including information on both Armenia and
neighboring countries. For a subscription, write B.Duemler@online.de.
Finally, the government of Republic
of Armenia maintains its official websites for the president
and National Assembly
Author: Gayane Novikova, The Armenian Center for National and
International Studies (MERIA)
Quelques sites internet sur les
femmes dans le monde arabe
Sites statistiques
Site du Women in Development Network, biligue anlais-français.
Page de garde de la base de données, qui renvoie vers cinq
catégories statistiques (Famille, Santé, Education, Travail,
Pouvoir) par pays ou par ensemble régional.
Site d. étude sue les femmes dans les parlements nationaux, avec
des chiffres sur le rôle politique des femmes, et une étude
détaillée sur le cas de l. Egypte, la Jordanie et le Liban.
Site de la Divison for the Advancement of Women des Nations-Unies,
qui offre la possibilité de rechercher dans la base de données de
l. ONU.
données sur les femmes dans le monde, par pays ou ensembles
régionaux. Malheureusement, seuls l. Egypte (
) et Israël (.../israel.htm) bénéficient d. un traitement en
profondeur.
Le site Gender Equality de l. UNESCO, ressources et liens.
Quelques listes de recherche
Page de liens sur la femme arabe de l. Université de Columbia. Les
liens sont nombreux et classés par thèmes, mais la page n. est pas
très récente, et certains liens sont morts.
Le site de l. Université de Bir Zeit propose un moteur de
recherche. En demandant women on obtient une très impressionnante
série d. articles et de données sur la femme arabe et
palestinienne.
Le site de l. Association for Middle Eastern Women. s Studies,
réseau de recherche américain, liens, données, publications,
informations...
La page de l. Institut for Women. s Studies in the Arab World de
la Lebanese American University de Beyrouth. Le IWASAW est le
principal centre libanais de recherche sur les femmes.
Une bibliographie (en anglais) sur les femmes palestiniennes
Une étude très complète (en anglais) sur la représentation de la
femme dans la littérature arabe.
http:_//www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3519
Un état très documenté (en anglais)
de la polémique sur le port du voile en Egypte, présenté à l.
Université Américaine du Caire.
Sites d. Actualité
La page des femmes en vue dans le monde arabe, l. actualité
féminine artistique, politique, mondaine.
Le site officiel de la reine Noor de Jordanie, avec un suivi de
ses activités, et en particulier de son rôle dans la promotion de
la femme en Jordanie et dans le monde arabe.
(Bulletin d. Information du CERMOC
No. 5, mai 1999)
U.S. Foreign Affairs on CD-ROM
U.S. Department of State, U.S.
Foreign Affairs on CD-ROM: A Compilation of Documents, January
1993-March 1998, Vol. 6, No. 1., (Washington, DC: December 1998).
This disk is simply an awesome
resource, a virtual revolution in international affairs' research.
Don't be frightened by the new
technology. If your computer has the proper features, you can have
it working and learn to use this resource in ten minutes or so.
Earlier editions cover the years back into the 1980s.
The best starting point is the
Welcome file which provides a table of contents on which you can
click to travel around. You can search by item, date, or keyword.
The cd-rom uses the acrobat reader, standard on computers
currently being sold.
The U.S. State Department has put a
massive amount of documentation together in a very convenient
form. This little cd-rom includes:
- State Department reports on
terrorism for 1995 and 1996.
- Short background notes, facts
and statistics, on every country.
- Full texts of all daily State
Department briefings.
- All issues of Dispatch, the
State Department weekly magazine with officials' speeches,
treaties, and other documents.
- The full text of Foreign
Relations of the United States volumes for the Kennedy
Administration.
- Human rights reports on every
country.
- The diplomatic list of all
foreign envoys to the United States and
- State Department offices and
personnel abroad.
- Miscellaneous reports including
the U.S. mission to the UN, annual budgets, environmental issues,
the search for Nazi gold, the overview statement on U.S.
international strategy, and narcotics smuggling.
- Collections of speeches by State
Department officials.
- Special reports ranging from the
Law of the Sea to State Department organization.
- Reports on the economic and
trade policy of countries.
To have all the materials
represented here on paper would take several large bookcases and
cost well over $500. This is a superb resource for scholars and
researchers. (MERIA)
New Site Dedicated to Iranian Turks
Turkestan-Iran is a site dedicated
to the Turks of Iran (Azeri and Turkmen). The site includes chat
and a personals/penpal page, also a section on the history of
Iranian Turks and their contributions to Iran, focusing mainly on
Azerbaijan. Other information in the history section is on the
Turkmens of Iran.
New Caucasus Travel Discussion List
A new mailing list devoted to
travel in the Caucasus has been set up, the description of this
mailing list is: The travel discussion list for people interested
in travel within the Transcaucasian Republics of Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia, and the North Caucasus region (Krasnodar
Kray, Stavropol Kray, Dagestan, Adygea, Karachay-Cherkassia,
Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechenya) of
the Russian Federation, as well as surrounding regions such as
Eastern Turkey, Azarbayjan Provinces of Iran, and Kalmykia and
Rostov and Astrakhan Oblasts of the Russian Federation.
This list is strictly devoted to
travel in the region as defined above. Advertisements and
political discussions are strictly forbidden.
You can join this list by sending a
blank email to: caucasus-subscribe@onelist.com, or by going to
this website:
Islamic Studies Pathways
This is a guide to Islamic Studies
Resources on the Internet, has recently been updated. A new
feature is a section on contemporary issues relating to Muslims in
the U.K. Suggestions for future editions are welcome. See:
www.lamp.ac.uk/cis/pathways.
BBC Persian Service
The BBC Persian Service has
upgraded its services on the Internet. The morning "dawn"
programme is now available on demand (before it was only available
during the actual broadcast). The evening "Jam-e Jam" programme
will also be available on demand shortly.
Special features on the 1979
revolution as well as weekly round-table interviews on current
events have also been introduced. For more information, visit:
http_//www.bbc.co.uk/perian. (BRISMES)
US Policy Documents
The US Information Agency. s
US-IRAQPOLICY mailing list is inviting subscribers. It distributes
current information and official US government statements on Iraq.
s refusal to abide by UN resolutions regarding weapons of mass
destruction.
To subscribe, send the message.
subscribe US-Iraqpolicy. to: listserv@info.usia.gov. (BRISMES)
Saudi Arabian Ministry of
Information Website
This website includes a wide
variety of information about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including
background information, information on the government, including
profiles of ministers and ministries, information about economic
sectors and so on. The address is: www.saudinf.com. (BRISMES)
Dissertation Abstracts Database
Now on the Web
Dissertation Abstracts database is
an internationally recongnised gateway to dissertation research.
It now indexes over 1.5 million titles from most North American
universities and a growing number of universities from elsewhere.
The database is one of the most comprehensive reference sources
available for academic research material across all disciplines.
Previously available from Unformations Publications International
Limited (UMI) on CD-ROM, it is now also available on the Web.
The database includes citations for
materials ranging from the first US dissertation accepted in 1861
to recently accepted dissertations. Records for doctoral
dissertations contain bibliographic citations and author-written
abstracts of up to 350 words for all titles after 1980.
The Web version allows a quick
search by keyword, author or publication number, or a more
advanced search screen may be used to enable Boolean searching on
a variety of fields such as author, degree year or university.
Over a million of the titles are available in full text.
Users may specify their delivery
address and choose from different formats including unbound paper
copies, 35 mm microfilm or microfiche. Downloadable dissertations
in PDF dissertations are also available whereby the user can
download the full text as a PDF file and pay by credit card.
If members would like a free trial
of Dissertation Abstracts on the Web, UMI can set up a free 30 day
trial for you. For further details, please contact: Suzanne O.
Hare, Publications Manager, U.M.I., The Old Hospital, Ardingly
Road, Cuckfield, West Sussex, RH17 5JR, U.K., Tel.: 01444 445000,
Fax: 01444 445050, e-mail: umi@ipiumi.demon.co.uk.
(BRISMES)
The Cyber-Caravan
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
of Johns Hopkins in January began a new biweekly publication, "The
Cyber-Caravan," devoted to news and analysis of the Caucasus and
Central Asia. The journal is written by experts in the field. Paid
subscribers receive the journal in both printed and electronic
e-mail versions. The e-mail only version is free, while back
issues of the journal are housed on the Institute's website at:
To be added to our free e-mailing list, send your name and e-mail
address to: jcdaly@jhu.edu.
The Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
The Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs officially launched ist third generation website -
- on February 1, 1999.
The Israel Foreign Ministry was the
first foreign ministry in the world which decided in 1993 to enter
the "information highway" . and also the first Israel government
ministry to do so.
Although not news oriented, it
deals with current affairs in depth, and the major world media
sites regularly direct their readers to the Israel Foreign
Ministry for detailed on-line information about Israel and the
Middle East.
The site, like its predecessors, is
designed specifically for audiences abroad and provides extensive
information about Israel in all areas. While the major language of
the site is English, some of the information is available also in
Arabic, Spanish, French, Portuguese and German. A separate site,
in Hebrew, designed for Israeli audiences, is under preparation.
The site contains official texts of
thousands of documents, including major agreements and is
maintained by the Information Division of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Jerusalem. (BRISMES)
Access to the Emerald Library
Emerald is the online collection of
top academic and professional journals from MCB University Press.
It includes the full text of more than 100 journals since 1994 and
abstracts back to 1989 where available. Access was gained to
24,000 on-line articles and abstracts, which are searchable by
keyword, author, article type, keyword in the full test and
various quality indicators. Emerald may be found at:
Iraq Discussion List
Iraq-L (launched: June 1997) has
migrated to a new site, Onelist.Com. Our subscription info has
changed: To subscribe go to:
Iraq List is a daily unmoderated, independent, pluralistic, and
interactive information and discussion list about Iraq and
Iraq-related issues. It also covers (partially) issues related to
other Arab, Islamic and Middle Eastern countries. (Arabic-Info)
Eurasian-Geopolitics, Uzbek-News
and Iranian-News
The Eurasia Research Center has
three specialized news and discussion mailing lists on the
following subjects:
- Eurasian Geopolitics - about
general questions affecting all of Eurasia such as crime and
corruption, economic reform, inter-country relations, ethnic
conflicts, peace keeping and peace making, human rights, the
role of NGOs, inter-country relations, arms races and weapons
proliferation, and current developments in individual countries
which may be of interest to those with comparative interests.
- Uzbekistan News Digest -
Collection and exchange of news items and information about
developments in today's Uzbekistan.
- Iranian News - News about recent
developments in Iran.
The addresses for joining the
Eurasian Geopolitics, Uzbek News and Iranian News lists are:
(CentralAsia-L)
Information Analytic Center "Eurasia"
Our website (
www.eurasia.org.ru) has been operating for about a year. We
have always tried our best to post on it the latest news and the
most interesting materials about the new independent states of
Central Asia.
Search through our archives for
previous months' materials arranged by topic: Kazakhstan mass
media reviews, Kazakhstan in the mirror of Russian press, press
clippings, unconstrained opinion.
Read articles and reviews written
by experts and reporters covering economic and political aspects
of life in five republics of Central Asia: inside the corridors of
power, commentaries on acts and decrees, official and independent
forecasts, in-depth analyses of the budget process, banking system
development, fledgling stock market, big oil, foreign trade, and
more.
(CentralAsia-L)
Website for Documents on the Peace
Process
The following documents are there
in their entirety:
- The Balfour Declaration
- The Mandate for Palestine
- Resolution 181 (The Partition
Plan)
- The Declaration of the
Establishment of the State of Israel
- Protection of Holy Places Law
- The Khartoum Resolutions
- UN Sec. Counc. Res. 242
- Separation of Forces Agreement -
Israel & Syria
- UN Sec. Counc. Res. 425 (Withdrawal
from Lebanon)
- U.N Security Council Resolution
338
- Palestinian National Charter
- Camp David Accords
- Peace Treaty between Israel and
Egypt
- The Jerusalem Law
- US-Israel Memorandum of
Understanding on Strategic Cooperation
- Golan Heights Law
- Israel Peace Initiative 5/14/89
- Inviation to Madrid Conference
- Israel-PLO Recognition
- Israel-Palestinian Declaration
of Principles
- Israel-Jordan Common Agenda
- Agreement on the Gaza Strip and
Jericho Area
- The Washing Declaration (Israel-Jordan-US)
- Agreement on the Prepatory
Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities (Israel-PLO)
- Treaty of Peace Between Israel
and Jordan
- Interim Agreement between Israel
and the Palestinians
- Summit of Peacemakers - Final
Statement at Sharm el-Shiekh
- Israel-Lebanon Cease Fire
Understanding
- Agreement on Temporary
International Presence in Hebron
- Protocol Concerning the
Redeployment in Hebron
- Agreement on Temporary
International Presence in Hebron
- The Wye River Memorandum (Arabic-Info)
Special Report: Sites on Israel's
Election
Although the election itself is
over, research and analysis on the event is just beginning. Here
are some useful sources:
General
- Elections Site 1999
established by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel and
others includes information on parties and platforms, candidates,
news, and a special section for children and teenagers.
- Virtual Jerusalem:
- Maven:
- Israel radio news:
- Anti-Defamation League:
- Mining Co.:
- CNN:
- Israeli Foreign Ministry on
election process:
- The Israeli Knesset (Parliament)
has three sites on the elections:
(English) and:
(Hebrew) and a list of parties:
- Jerusalem Post:
- IsraelWire:
- BBC:
Israeli political parties
- Shinui:
;
- Third Way:
- Yisrael B'Aliyah:
- Penina Rosenblum:
;
- Ale-Yarok (Green Leaf, the
Marijuana Legalization Party):
- HaYerukim (Greens,
Environmentalist Party):
(MERIA)
CEMOTI
CEMOTI (Cahiers d. études sur la
Mediterranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien) has a new
website, which can be found at:
MERIA News on Websites
Gulf-related sites
- Iraq Net, a site for Iraqi
exiles:
- Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy
Movement:
- Megasites, "Iraq Under Sanctions":
- U Texas, Conflict in Iraq at:
- Iraq's main opposition movement,
Iraqi National Congress now online:
- SICRI, Supreme Council for
Islamic Revolution in Iraq:
- The Trade and Environment
Database maintains a site dedicated to the Tigris-Euphrates
River Dispute:
- The Iranian e-zine has a
complete collection of material on the 1979 revolution:
- The Payman Irani Network, in
support of moderate and reformist politics in Iran: http//www.irani.net.
- The Iraq Foundation is now
online:
- The Iraq Research and
Documentation Project is now at:
- Bahrain TV is available at:
- Official news from Bahrain:
(in Arabic).
- BBC Persian Service is now
online at:
- Institute for Political and
International Studies in Iran is online at:
companies/farapajooh.
- Ascent, a new newsletter on
perspectives on international events and developments from
inside Iran: majordomo@im-ins.com.
- The USIS's IRAQPOLICY mailing
list: listserv@info.usia.gov.
- UAE Interact, news and books on
the Emirates:
- Centre for Arab and Islamic
Studies publishes its Iran Briefings online at:
- Gulf Center for Strategic
Studies is now online:
- Coverage of Kuwaiti Elections
can be found at:
- Iranian Institute for Political
and International Studies is now online at:
Israel
- Jewish Student Online Research
Center:
- Ariga's Israeli election
campaign page:
- Yahoo's coverage of Israeli
elections:
- Israeli Foreign Ministry has a
detailed site on elections with background information on the
political system:
- "Coping with Crumbling States: A
Western and Israeli Balance of Power Strategy for the Levant":
- The Center for Arab and Gulf
Studies at U Exeter (UK) has a special page for resources on the
Israel-Palestinian conflict:
- Conference for Middle East Peace:
- Middle East Unit of the Truman
Institute, Hebrew Univ.:
- Religious-nationalist radio
station Arutz Sheva:
- The Israeli Mission to the
United Nations is now online at:
- The Bridge: Jewish and Arab
Women for Peace in the Middle East:
- The Peacewatch website at
has been updated.
- The Israel Inter-University
Library Network general homepage has moved to:
- The Israel Union List of Serials
for books in Western languages (BASE ULS):
- The group Red Line - Leave
Lebanon at:
- Israel-related websites in
French: A Memorial Itzhak Rabin is online at:
- An Israel chat group:
- The Yakar Center for Social
Concern is now online at:
- Impressions of a joint seminar
between Yakar and PACE can be seen at Peacewatch's website at:
- IPCRI has published a new map
series, "The Present and Future of Jerusalem: The Current
Situation on the Ground and Current Future Plans."
- Azure, the quarterly by the
Shalem Institute in Jerusalem, is online at:
- Columbia University Middle
Eastern Studies special list of sites on "Israel/Palestine
Relations":
- Jerusalemites is a new site on "the
human dimension of Palestinian history":
- A website devoted to the Irgun
(Etzel):
Palestinians
- The Palestinian Central Bureau
of Statistics (PCBS) redesigned website:
or:
- Personal websites of Palestinian
notables can be found at:
as well as other articles, job listings and an Arabic newsstand
at:
- Evolution of the Palestine
Problem, 1918 to 1988:
- Palestinian culture and society
discussion group: p-culture-request@mailing-list.net.
- Two New Directories for
Palestinian Web Sites:
;
- "A Reevaluation of the Border
Industrial Estates Concept" can be found at:
- Committee to Protect Journalists:
Country Report: The Palestinian National Authority as of
December 31, 1998:
- The Palestine Economic Policy
Research Institute website is now updated at:
- The Permanent Observer Mission
of Palestine to the United Nations is now online:
- Palestinian Association for
Cultural Exchange (PACE) is now online at:
- The UNSCO Report on Economic and
Social Conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Spring 1999)
has been completed and is online at:
- Palestinian Central Bureau of
Statistics (PCBS) is publishing a free internet newsletter:
PCBSHP @PCBS.PNA.ORG.
is a full text search engine and link directory on Palestinians
and Palestine, containing over 12,000 items. - Palestinian Communities in
Europe:
- "Dialogue on Palestinian
State-Building and Identity" by PASSIA:
- Also from PASSIA: "Academic
Seminar on Abra-ham: Abraham in the three Monotheistic Faiths"
at:
- A comprehensive list of new
sites on Palestinian issues:
- Middle East Children's Alliance
home page is now online at:
The Center for Arab Children's Literature now online:
- ARIJ (Applied Research
Institute-Jerusalem) is now online at:
- A new site of news and other
materials on Hamas:
- "The Country of Palestine" is
at:
- Essam Shasha's list of
Palestinian organizations is online at:
- PNA Ministry of Tourism &
Antiquities has a new website at:
- The UN information system "On
the Question of Palestine" has full documents from 1947 to the
present at:
- For the Popular Front for the
liberation of Palestine:
Media
- The Internet Public Library has
links to online newspapers from around the world, including the
Middle East:
- Aamer Abu Qarn has links to the
daily Arab press in Arabic and English:
- Yahoo's site dedicated to the
Jordanian succession:
- Foreignwire news service has
good coverage of the Middle East at:
- Yemen Times:
It has a link list at:
- Conference for Middle East
Peace's e-mail publication is very useful since it is the only
source making available daily translations from the Foreign
Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Contact: Murray Kahl kahl@cmep.com
- Middle East Times is now online
at:
Yahoo has a new list with 441 university and other research
libraries from around the world at:
- Middle East Newsline, the new
regional internet service, now has a site updated daily with the
latest Middle East news,a diary of events, and special reports:
www.menewsline.com.
- The English newspaper "Cairo
Times":
Lebanon
- The Golden Who's Who of Lebanese
Emigrants in the World at:
- United States Committee for a
Free Lebanon
- Cafe Lebanon, discussions on
Lebanese issues, is at:
- Lebanon Online is at:
- A new Lebanese news site called
Morning Morning is online at:
- The Lebanese newspaper, The
Daily Star, is now online at:
- American Friends of Lebanon is
now online at:
- The Lebanese newspaper L'Orient
Lejour at:
for that group, though only the "what's new" link seems to work.
Maghreb-related sites
- Morocco's "Green March":
- A site devoted to Moroccan women
in the U.S.:
- Al-Akhawayn U in Ifrane, Morocco:
- The American Moroccan Forum (AMFOR):
- American Institute for Maghreb
Studies (AIMS):
Turkey
- Second issue of STAD (Virtual
Journal of Turkology Researches):
- A new Turkology mailing list is
at: turkoloji@egroups.com. To subscribe: turkoloji-subscribe @egroups.com
- Updated coverage of world
Kurdish issues:
- The Republic of Turkey,
- Turkish Forum
- A Case Study of the PKK in
Turkey - from the Turkish point of view,
;
- Unofficial Translation of the
Turkey-Syria Treaty from the International Policy Institute for
Counter-Terrorism:
;
- Directorate General of Press and
Information, Turkey
/
- Kurdistan Workers Party
Information:
- Kurdistan Observer:
- List of Turkish Laws Violating
Free Expression from Human Rights Watch:
;
- Solidarity Group
Turkey-Kurdistan:
- One World Gallery, Kurdish
photography collection:
;
- Devrimci Sol, a revolutionary
political review about Turkey and Kurdistan:
;
;
- New Perspectives on Turkey, an
English-language periodical on Turkish affairs:
- H. B. Paksoy's page on the
history, culture, politics, literature of Central Asia and the
Turkish Republic has moved to
- A new Kurdish site is online at:
Yemen
- Ali Ayemeni, "Yemen's unresolved
Issues", concerning corruption, border disputes, and
maldistribution of power in Yemen:
- Receive the Yemen Times by
e-mail by sending a SUBSCRIBE message to: subscribe@yementimes.
com.
Other
- Cambridge Global Security
Program:
- The Istituto per l'Oriente in
Italy:
- The International Association of
Orientalist Librarians:
The most recentissue of the IAOL Bulletin:
- The NEW Website of "Cahiers
d'etudes sur la Mediterranee orientale et le monde turco-iranien"
(CEMOTI) is
- Armenian news are available at:
- EDA/ DFAE, Swiss unit on the
human dimension of the Middle East peace process:
- They publish press releases at:
- Middle East Free Trade Zone
Environment Monitor Newsletter:
- The Center for Defense
Information's Russia Weekly Newsletter is catalogued online at:
- The Middle East Studies Center (MESC)
of Univ. Ghent, Belgium is now online at:
- Research Institute on European
Studies (RIES) has updated its homepage at:
- RIIES Middle East Forum is now
online at:
- The new Arabia discussion forums
are now open on politics, human rights, entertainment, culture,
sports, business, technology and relationships. See:
- Subscribe to Jordan Focus at:
jordan_focus@yahoo.com. A short briefing publication on events
of interest involving Jordan, including both international
affairs and domestic politics.
- The Middle East Newsline is a
new and valuable news service that combines reporting on Israel
and the Arab world, with daily headlines, major stories, and
original special reports. It sends E-mail digests twice a day to
subscribers. MENL is offering a free trial offer at: menl@actcom.co.il.
- Human Rights Watch has published
a very interesting 96-page report on censorship and restrictions
to internet in the Middle East:
- A Libyan site in French has been
updated to include links to opposition groups:
- "Libya Our Home," with a link
list, now online at:
- NAIL (National Archives and
Research Administration) has excellent Middle East resources:
- Arabist News is a 24-hour
news-service:
- National Security Council
documents are now online at:
- British Political Studies
Association (PSA) journal on international affairs:
- Islamic Financial Data Services
Limited (IFDS) Journal:
- The Centre for World Dialogue in
Cyprus is now online at:
- Arab Libertarian Forum is now
online at:
- The Arab League's "model league":
- News about role-playing
simulation of a Middle East conference via internet:
- MidEast Web is now online at:
- A new website for books in
Arabic published in Egypt by Al-Hadara Publishers is online at:
- EJIRA (Electronic Journal of
International Conflict Analysis) published by U of Kent:
- A Human Rights Watch report on
Middle East governments restriction of the internet by Declan
McCullagh can be found online at:
The report states that one million people are now online in the
Arab world.
- Al-Mashriq, a very helpful site
includes links to the Oslo Accords
and reports on Gaza and West Bank
It also links to another interesting site, the Digital
Documentation Center of the American University in Beirut, which
includes some interesting essays in its Politics section
- Terrorism Research Center:
- A reference guide to world
leaders:
- Information on Middle East
minorities:
- A new newsfeed in Arabic:
- The Middle East Security Report:
- The Center for Defense
Information:
- The Jordanian National Assembly:
- Bulak Information Agency and
Bookstore:
- Oxford Analytica:
- International Peace Research
Association (IPRA) from the Danish COPRI Institute:
- Politicsweb:
- Bios of Middle East historical
figures can be found at:
- Internet Society of Syria (ISS):
Anyone wishing a free subscription
to the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA),
including the quarterly Journal and the fortnightly News can write:
besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
MERIA. s homepage, with several
useful features for researchers, is at:
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