Lauinger Library website - http://www.library.georgetown.edu

GEORGE, the online catalog of Georgetown University's libraries - http://library.georgetown.edu

Part I. The World Wide Web & the Middle East

General Subject Guides and Directories

• Internet Directories - http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/guides.htm
  
• Middle Eastern Area Studies: Georgetown University Library's Guide to Research -http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/mideaststudies/
  

Search Engines

Meta Sites

• Univ.of Texas-Austin Middle East Network Information Center (UT-MENIC) - http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html
• Middle East Studies Association - http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/
• Militant Islam - Specialized web crawler "focus[ing] on the self-representation of the global Militant and Political Islamic and Islamist movements...in their own words." Available to Georgetown University community only: off campus access instructions. Personal subscriptions also now available at http://www.militantislam.net.
  

News & Media (sites in Arabic best viewed with Internet Explorer)

• al-Ahram -  http://www.ahram.org.eg/
• Al Ahram Weekly (English) - http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/
• Arabia.Online - http://www.arabia.com/
  Includes news & country links
• Cairo Press Review (Arabic) - http://www.us.sis.gov.eg/pressrev/html/frame.htm 
• al-Hayat  - http://www.alhayat.com/
• al-Hayat (English) - http://english.daralhayat.com/
• Kidon Media-Link - http://www.kidon.com/media-link/
  - very comprehensive list of online newspapers & news agencies' feeds from Middle Eastern & North African countries . Possible to sort by Arabic (listing Arabic-language publications from all over the world), English, French, German, etc. Also searchable by country.
• Al-Jazeera (satellite channel) - http://www.aljazeera.net/
  - program guide & info about Al-Jazeera television; also broadcasts live via the Internet.
• Arab Times - http://www.arabtimes.com/
  - Arabic newspaper published in the U.S.
  
  
• For more news sources see the News & Newspapers section in Georgetown University Library's website http://www.library.georgetown.edu/elecref/index.htm#news

Selected Sites

• Arabic Language
  
  American Association of Teachers of Arabic - http://www.wm.edu/aata/links.html
  
  
• Islam
  
  Islam and Islamic Studies by Prof. A. Godlas - http://www.uga.edu/islam
  - useful combination of basic introduction to Islam & numerous, well-organized links on Quran & sunnah, Islamic history & philosophy, Muslim women, Muslims around the world, etc.
  
  The Islam Page - http://www.islamworld.net
  - complete scholarly guide to the basics of Islam, also has numerous links to other sites. Useful database with works of Muslim scholars and activists from the classical to the modern period.
  
  IslamZine - http://www.islamzine.com
  - multi-lingual website with brief introductions to the tenets of Islam & some interesting links
  
  see Militant Islam (above) for many more sites on Islam and the Islamic world
  

• Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Scholarly Organizations
  
  MESA - http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/
  Middle East Studies Association of North America
  
  Middle Eastern Studies Library Collections - http://depts.washington.edu/wsx9/melainlc.html

  EURAMES - http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/eurames/default.html
  European Association of Middle Eastern Studies
  

• Tables of Contents of Scholarly Publications on Islam and the Middle East
  
  Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East - http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/currentcontents/currentcontents.html
  - produced by the Dayan Center, publicizes "table of contents" material for scholarly articles published on the Middle East
  

• Miscellaneous (and very interesting)

  al-Mashriq - http://almashriq.hiof.no/
  -repository for cultural multimedia information from the Levant (Al-Mashriq) in general and Lebanon in particular. Excellent links to other resources, especially historical photographs.
  

Ejournals

• Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
  includes these online publications:
  • MERIA Journal, a quarterly academic journal on Middle East issues
  • MERIA News, a monthly newsletter on Middle East studies including shorter analytical pieces, reviews and announcements of conferences, websites and publications, as well as readers' research queries
  For free subscription, send email to: gloria@idc.ac.il
  or go to the website: http://meria.idc.ac.il/
  
  
• EJOS -- Electronic Jouranl of Oriental Studies
  http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/anpt/ejos/ejos-1.html
  - "international electronic journal devoted to the study of Arabic, Persian and Turkic languages and cultures. It has a multi- and inter-disciplinary focus covering the full range of the humaniora"
  
  
• MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
  http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/
  - "new, internet-based journal publishing scholarly writing--both interdisciplinary work and work within the traditional boundaries of the social sciences and humanities--related to the modern Middle East"
  

Part II. Electronic Databases, Periodical Indexes & Library Catalogs

Index Islamicus.  Available only from the Lauinger Library CD-ROM Network.
Major index to articles on Islamic history and the languages, literatures, and ethnography of the Islamic world.  Also available in a printed version: Ref. Z 7835 .M6 L62.

Encyclopedia of Islam. Available only from the Lauinger Library CD-ROM network.
Major encyclopedia on every aspect of Islam - theology, culture, politics, literature, etc.; articles are by top scholars in the field. Sometimes dated, as publication of this (second) edition began in the 1950's and is nearly complete (2003). Also available in print: Ref. DS37 .E523

Off campus access instructions (GU only) for the following databases.

Lexis/Nexis Academic
- mostly full text.   Thousands of magazines, newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcipts, including international publications.

PA Research II
- some full text.  1,800 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general sciences, business and general interest. 1986-

Academic Search Premier
-general index to scholarly materials, mostly full-text

World News Connection  (successor to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS))
- National Technical Information Service.  Full text summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts International)
- UMI digital library of dissertations and theses.

Historical Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations dealing with non-U.S. history from 1450 to the present. 1982-

MLA Bibliography
- Indexes books and journal articles published on modern languages and literatures, linguistics, literary theory and folklore. 1981 -

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- contains conference proceedings and working papers from 66 participating institutes around the world. Includes the full text of books and book summaries, hyperlinks to more than 150 sites, journal abstracts, and a calendar of conferences and seminars

EconLit
- Indexes and abstracts worldwide economic literature.  Includes article citations from over 400 major economic journals; abstracts and book annotations from the Journal of Economic Literature  since 1987; and citations to articles in collective works indexed in the Index to Economic Articles. 1969-

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes public policy and public affairs literature in many formats (books, periodical articles, government documents, reports, etc.). Covers government, business, law, international relations, public administration, banking and finance, health, environment and education.  1972 -

Web of Science
-Combines Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references - the footnotes from authors' bibliographies. You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.

Electronic Periodicals Collections

Full-Text Indexes and Databases

• JAKE
  - database of information about journals: Where journals are indexed; where to locate full-text of articles

Other Library Catalogs
- Library of Congress, WorldCat (GU only), WRLC Catalog, Libweb

Contact Information

Brenda Bickett , Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Bibliographer
phone - (202) 687-7609
bickettb@georgetown.edu

Sandra Hussey , Reference Librarian & Library Research Instruction Coordinator
phone - (202) 687-8689
husseys@georgetown.edu