Research Guides: International Affairs: Middle East

Data Sources recommended by Dr. Snider

General Data:

Brookings Iraq Index

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
ICPSR supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. Established in 1962, ICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data.
Published by: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

Public Opinion:

Economic Data:

Finding Articles on the Middle East

Arab World Research Source This link opens in a new window
The comprehensive database covers a diverse range of disciplines including Art, Business, Law, Politics, Religion and more. Key titles include DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies, Journal of Social Sciences, Annals of Arts & Social Sciences, and Journal of Sharia & Islamic Studies.
Eikon This link opens in a new window
Zawya is the preeminent source of Middle East and North Africa business intelligence with unique content and tools including detailed profiles on the top companies and projects in the region, Thomson Reuters live news, comprehensive industry and asset class research.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
A systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world covering almost a hundred years of publications on the world of Islam, including not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Race Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues, containing more than more than 517,000 article citations from more than 1,616 journals and more than 220,000 essay citations from over 16,100 multi-author works.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
Index of over 300 journals covering world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new window
Online encyclopedia regarding the Islamic faith.

Academic Centers and Think Tanks working on the Middle East recommended by Dr. Snider

This search box will search the top Middle East thinks as recommended by Dr. Snider and identified by the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Report (from Penn):

News Sources Recommended by Dr. Snider

English:

Al Jazeera English (Qatar): http://english.aljazeera.net/
Al Bawaba (UK): http://www.albawaba.com/
Ha’aretz English (Israel): http://www.haaretz.com/
Mada Masr (Egypt): http://www.madamasr.com
New York Times/ Middle East (USA): http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/middleeast/
Cumhuriyet English (Turkey): http://www.cumhuriyet.com/
WorldPress/ Middle East: http://www.worldpress.org/mideast.htm

Arabic:

Al Jazeera (Qatar): www.aljazeera.net
Al Sharq Al Awsat (England/Saudi Arabia): http://www.aawsat.com/
Al Ghad (Jordan): https://alghad.com
Al Quds (Jerusalem): http://www.alquds.com/
Al Watan (Saudi Arabia): http://www.alwatan.com.sa
Al Shorouq (Algeria): https://www.shorouknews.com/
Al Zaman (Iraq): http://www.azzaman.com/

Hebrew:

Ha’aretz (Israel): http://www.haaretz.co.il/

Other:

Cumhuriyet (Turkey): http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/
Kayhan (Iran): http://kayhan.ir/en

Audio/Video:

BBC Arabic, BBC Farsi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
Al Jazeera English: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
MEMRI: http://www.memri.org

You can also obtain Al Jazeera and Middle East Institute podcasts on iTunes.

English-language translations of Middle East media are also available at www.memri.org and The World News Connection/Open Source Center. Be aware that any translated work you use could be (1) unrepresentative and (2) poorly translated.

Blogs:

English

Foreign Policy Middle East Channel: http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/
Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/
Syria Comment/ Joshua Landis: http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/
The Arabist/ Issandr El Amrani: www.arabist.net
Foreign Policy/ Marc Lynch, GWU: http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/
Foreign Policy/ Stephen Walt, Harvard KSG: http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/
The Black Iris of Jordan/ Naseem Tarawneh: www.black-iris.com
Informed Comment/ Juan Cole: www.juancole.com
Jihadica/ Various: www.jihadica.com
KabobFest/ Various: http://www.kabobfest.com/

Arabic:

MisrDigital/ Wael Abbas: http://misrdigital.blogspirit.com
Ana Ikhwan/ Abdel Monem Mahmoud: http://ana-ikhwan.blogspot.com
Yalally/ Ahmed Abdel Fatah: http://yalally.blogspot.com

Cartoons:

Emad Hajjaj: http://www.mahjoob.com
Om El Cartoon: Caricature and Comics from Egypt: http://oumcartoon.tumblr.com