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This page features many news and archives sources pertaining to Middle Eastern studies, categorized in different ways, listed here:

News Archives E-Journals for Middle East Studies
News Portals from the Middle East Open Access Journals
IranNamaye & Multidata News AMIR RSS News Feed

News Archives

  • World Newspaper Archive
    Searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Language: Various
  • LexisNexis Academic
    Covers general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Coverage: Varies. Some of the files go back to the 1970s
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Coverage: 1960 - present
  • Factiva
    Contains major global newspapers, business newspapers and magazines, trade and industry journals, prominent newswires, and network broadcast transcripts. In the Companies/Markets tab, there are global company reports, limited industry reports, and market data. The results pages allow robust filtering, and there is live chat help.

    Note: You must view this resource using Internet Explorer. Please log out of this resource when finished. Please note the time out period for inactive viewing is 10 minutes. The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Coverage: Varies. 9,000 sources are updated on the day of publication.
    Language: Primarily English. Over 20 languages total.

News Portals from the Middle East

General:

Al Jazeera Albawaba
The Middle East Times Alhayat
Al Monitor  

Arab Countries:

Cairo Times Al-Ahram (Egypt)
Jordan Times The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Azzaman.com (Iraq)  

Israel:

The Jerusalem Post YNet News
Haaretz The Jerusalem Report
Israel Today Magazine Arutz Sheva 

Palestine:

Ma’an News Agency Jerusalem Media & Comm. Center
The Palestine Chronicle The Electronic Intifada

Iran:

Ettela'at Tehran News
Fars News Agency Abrar

Turkey:

Hurriyet Daily News BirGün
Today's Zaman Cumhuriyet

E-Journals for Middle East Studies

How to find E-journals related to Middle East studies at UNC Libraries?

From the Library website, go to E-Research by Discipline then under Middle Eastern/Muslim Civilizations click the E-Journals tab.

 

Persian News reports & Arabic dailies

                 

  • Irannamaye
    Over 1.5 million full text items (articles, reports, news stories, etc.) from Persian newspapers, magazines, and journals, from 1978 until present.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Language: Various
  • MultiData General News Database
    Covers 65 Arabic dailies and weeklies from 1994 to present. Provides access to more than 250,000 records with full texts. A research tool, specialized in the political, economic, strategic, and social issues in the Arab world.
    Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
    Language: Arabic

Open Access Journals

Jadaliyya is an independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies Institute), the umbrella organization that produces Arab Studies Journal, Tadween Publishing, FAMA, and Quilting Point. It provides a unique source of insight and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship, and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States, the Middle East and beyond. The site currently publishes posts both in Arabic, French, English, and Turkish.

  • OACIS for the Middle East
    (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East.

AMIR News RSS Feed

An Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies, collected since began AMIR on December 5, 2010.

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