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BBC News - Middle East |
| Probably the
best place to start if you want to know what's happening
around the region. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/default.stm |
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Al-Jazeera |
| Another very
good news source - coverage of many parts of the region that
most other media often miss |
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http://english.aljazeera.net |
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Daily Star |
| Beirut-based
English-language daily (it comes bundled with the
International Herald Tribune in many parts of the Middle East)
offers the best coverage of Lebanon on the 'net and one of the
region's strongest op-ed pages. |
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb |
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Haaretz |
| Hands-down the
best English-language Israeli newspaper site. |
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ |
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Bitterlemons.org |
Subtitled
"Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire" this site is jointly edited by
Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian, and Yossi Alpher, an Israeli.
It offers that rarest of things: intelligent, level-headed,
non-polemical debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Broader
Middle East issues are discussed on a
companion site:
http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/ |
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http://www.bitterlemons.org/ |
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The Gulf 2000 Project |
| Gulf 2000 is an
innovative specialists-only discussion list and database run
out of Columbia University by Gary Sick, author, scholar, and
retired US Naval officer and NSC official. This link is for
the project's public website, which offers a wealth of data on
the eight countries surrounding the Gulf: Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates,Oman, Iran
and Iraq |
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http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/ |
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USC Center for Public Diplomacy |
| A joint project
of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School
for Communication and its International Relations Department.
John Brown's daily Public Diplomacy Press Review is an
excellent round-up of news > coverage of the public diplomacy
world. |
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www.uscpublicdiplomacy.org |
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting |
| An NGO that
does some truly extraordinary work in conflict zones, notably
Iraq. The Iraq portion of their site is available in English,
Arabic and Kurdish. |
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http://www.iwpr.net |
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