Middle East

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on Middle East Topics:  Collection of CRS reports on topics related to countries in the Middle East.  Source:  Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR):  Offers an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public. Source: CAIR.

Country Profiles: Provides a brief history, profile of leaders, timeline of key events, and description of local media on countries throughout the world.   Features news stories, audio files, and links to related sites. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Source:  Librarians' Index to the Internet.

History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources:  This site provides current information about events in the Middle East.  Includes links by country, such subjects suxh as as history, religion, politics, culture and society.  Source: Department of History, SUNY-Albany.

INCORE Internet Country Guides: Focuses on providing scholarly information on ethnic conflicts in a few selected countries. (description from Choice, 4/98). Source: Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity.

Middle East & Islamic Studies:  an annotated list of research materials on the Middle East and North Africa organized by region, country and subject.  Source:  Columbia University Libraries

Middle East Network Information Center (MENIC):  an extensive directory of information resources from and about the Middle East, organized by region and subject areas.  Source:  University of Texas at Austin Middle Eastern Studies.

Middle East Maps:  regional and country specific maps of the Middle East.  Source:  Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas Library.

Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP):  a nonprofit, nongovernmental agency that provides news and analysis about contemporary issues in the Middle East.  A searchable site that includes articles from the Middle East Report dating back to 2000.  Source:  Librarians' Index to the Internet

Portals to the World - African and Middle Eastern:  Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. Arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. Source: Library of Congress.

VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources: Provides links to sources of information including full-text files, statistical tables, and graphs on topics related to international business. Source: Jeanie M. Welch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Yamli.com:  a search engine front end that searches the Arabic language web using the English character set with the Arabic terms written phonetically.  The English characters are dynamically transliterated into Arabic and sent to the Google search engine.  Source: