
Collection
Development
Middle East & Islamic Studies

Software, Hardware & Computing Resources
General
Browsers & Page Construction
The Internet, General
- Arab World Maillists and
Newsgroups
- Search
Engines Worldwide
- The Internet's 'Open Sesame' Is Answered Warily
(The New York Times Company, March 18, 1999)
- Online in Cairo, With News, Views and 'Fatwa Corner'
(The New York Times, October 29, 2002)
- Getting Connected in the ME
- The
Internet In the Middle East and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship
(© June 1999, Human Rights Watch)
- Going On-Line: The Middle East on Internet (Jon W.
Anderson, Catholic University of America)
- Echoes of Mideast Conflict Online (NYT, October
13, 1997)
- The Current Status of the Internet in the Arab World
(NUSACC, 1998?)
- Internet in the Middle East: E-commerce (results
from of a "comprehensive survey" by Internet Al-Alam Al-Arabi Magazine
(Internet Arab World , IAW))
- Internet in the Middle East: User Profiles
- Internet in the Middle East: User Numbers
- In a Spin Over the Web Cautious Arab States
Confront Challenges Of Unleashing Internet (Washington Post, Monday, July
26, 1999; Page A13)
- Companies Compete to Provide Saudi Internet Veil
(NYT, November 19, 2001)
- Internet has arrived (Washington Post, Tuesday ,
June 20, 2000 ; A17)
- Documentation
of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia (Berkman Center for Internet &
Society, Harvard Law School)
- Online
Agitators Breaching Barriers in Mideast: London-Based Saudi Dissidents and
Fugitives Find Ways Around Government Censorship (Washington Post,
Wednesday, October 24, 2001; Page A10)
- How to Separate Good Data From Bad (The NYT, March
4, 1999)
- Searching for the Search Engines of Meaning (The
NYT, November 28, 1999
- No Computer Can Hold the Past (The NYT, June 12,
1999)
- Whales in the Minnesota River? Only on the Web, Where
Skepticism Is a Required Navigational Aid (March 4, 1999)
- Cybermania Takes Iran by Surprise Youths Swarm
Online; Tehran Scrambles to Respond (Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2001; Page A01)
- Developing a World Wide Web Resource Collection and a
Guide to Internet Resources on the Middle East and Islamic Studies / Ali
Houissa, Cornell University. Paper originally presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Middle East Librarians Association, November 1997 in San Francisco.
- Digitization as the Agent of Technological
Revolution in Storage of and Access to Information / Ali Houissa. In: MELA
NOTES, Number 69-70 (Fall 1999-Spring 2000)
- The
Internet predicament in the Middle East and North Africa: connectivity, access
and censorship/ Ali Houissa. Journal of Librarianship and Information
Science, Volume 32, Number 2 June 2000, pp. 56-63
- "The Middle East and the Internet" An
occasional column by Nigel Parry for Middle East International magazine. "INTERNET
TO MAKE CENSORSHIP OBSOLETE?"
- The digital revolution and the new reformation /
Ali Mazrui;Alamin Mazrui. (In: Harvard International Review; Cambridge; Spring
2001)
- Hacker Defaces Pro-Israel Web Site (The NYT,
November 3, 2000)
- Internet Sparks Culture Clash Among Turks
(Washington Post, Saturday, February 3, 2001 ; Page A17)
- Cooperative Structures for the Collection of
Internet Resources on and from the Middle East / Lutz Wiederhold
- New Developments in
Internet Law
- The Internet Society
- National Information
and Communications Infrastructure (NICI) in Africa
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Digital Freedom Network
- CYBER CRIME . . . AND PUNISHMENT? ARCHAIC LAWS
THREATEN GLOBAL INFORMATION
- Index on censorship
- SurfControl "Managing Responsible
Internet Usage"
Internet Access
- Arab World Maillists and
Newsgroups
- DIT
- Webs and
Gophers in Egypt
- The Internet in Egypt
- In Touch (Internet Serv.
Perovider, Egypt)
- Information Technology in IRAN : Sources and Links
- Iran: Neda Rayaneh
- Planetarabia.com
- Menara(the first
search engine of Moroccan web sites)
- National Security and the Internet in the Persian
Gulf Region(by Grey E. Burkhart)
- Syrian computer society
- Syria Advances Cautiously Into the Online Age
(Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday , April 27, 2000 ; A01)
- Internet has arrived
(Washington Post, Tuesday , June 20, 2000 ; A17)
- Electronic
Communications Providers in KSA (Saudi Arabia)
- 'Uncontrollable' Internet immoral in Sudan
- SUDAN-COMMUNICATION: For Some, Internet Equals
Moral Pollution (Inter Press Service, Mar 16, 1998)
- Sudanese Internet
Service / Information Providers
- Tunisia
- Internet
Services in Tunisia
- Les cyber-résistants tunisiens donnent
naissance à une nouvelle forme de contestation (Le Monde, Mis à
jour le jeudi 21 septembre 2000)
- Maktub("the first
bilingual Arabic/English Web Based Email. You can send and receive Arabic email
or English email or both, and all from the same account."
- In Touch (Internet Serv.
Perovider, Egypt)
- Islam online
- Islamic Computing Centre
(Commercial, to Order (U.K.))
- Islamsoft
Language/Script Software,
Wordprocessing and Desktop Publishing
- Arabic
- Farsi
- Coptic
- Israel
- Tunisia
Internet Tools (General)

Middle East & Islamic Studies,
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast
Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.