Collection Development
Middle East & Islamic Studies

News Sources, Book Trade & Publishing

News Sources

• Arabic language papers on the web
• The Middle East Media Guide -- media reference book
• Middle East newspapers
• Sources of News about the Middle East
• Al Jazeera via "Lexis Nexis" Arabic Media Network (English language broadcast transcripts) via CUL Library subscription to "LexisNexis Academic" database. [access instructions: use the "guided news search": select the "news transcripts" category and the "all transcripts" news source category-enter "Al Jazeera" as a search term and as publication title] - Off-campus access limited to CUL affiliated users- Al Jazeera's English language website is at: http://english.aljazeera.net
• Dar al Hayat (Saudi Arabia)
• Egyptian Gazette (Egypt)
• Islamic Republic News Agency (Iran)
• An-Nahar (Lebanon) (Arabic)
• al-Quds.com (in Arabic)
• Saudi Arabian Information Resource
• Saudi Press Agency (Arabic)
• Arab News, "Saudi Arabia's first English Language daily."
• English press releases
• Emirates News Agency (English)
• The Middle East Times
• Middle East Week in Review : is a weekly summary of major events in the region, sent out by e-mail by The Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.
• Arabic daily, weekly, and monthly online newspapers from around the world, as well as radio and TV (mostly live). The site also provides links to papers in languages other than Arabic.
• Arab Gateway Provides links to Arabic Newspapers and non-Arabic Newspapers.
• CNN Arabic Arabic language edition of CNN.com news.

Bookstores & Vendors, etc.

• An Extensive Worldwide List of Islamic Book-sellers
• Abencerage Bookshop, France
• Alhambra Productions (USA)
• Almaktabah "The Largest Bookstore on the Internet for Books in Arabic"
• Anhar/Obeikan Library
• Librarie Antoine
• Arabic Book Center Valencia St. San Francisco, California
• Arabic Bookshops World Wide
• Arabic bookshops in London
• Arabic Library on the web
• ARAMedia Group
• AWAIR (Arab World and Islamic Resources)
• Ashraf Islmaic Bookkstore On-line
• Avicenna Books
• Boustany's Publishing House (Cairo)
• Bosphorus Books
• Cultural Foundation (UAE)
• Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi (Irvine, CA)
• Dar-us-Salam Publications - Islamic Bookstore
• An Extensive Worldwide List of Islamic Book-sellers
• Al-Hadara Publishers (Egypt)
• E F I X E - Kitap, Müzik, Video
• Ilm Islamic Bookstore
• Internet Book Shop
• Les Editions Iman (Research Islamic and Arabic books on the Middle East)
• InterX Store (Future Publishers) Arabic CD-ROMS
• Iranian/Persian Pubishers' Address Page
• Islamic Book Company
• Islamic Publications International(Oneonta, NY)
• KAZI Publications, Chicago, IL
• KITAB BHAVAN, New Delhi, India
• Leila Books (Cairo)
• La Librairie arabe, Genève, Suisse.
• Librairie du Liban, Kesrouan, Lebanon
• Magrudy's Bookshop, Dubai, UAE
• ALMAKTABAH.COM (The Largest Bookstore on the Internet for Books in Arabic)
• Malik's Bookshop, Beirut, Lebanon
• Muslim Community Service
• al-Nadi International Book Club
• Neelwafurat.com
• The On-Line Islamic Bookstore Sharaaz & Associates of Santa Clara, California
• Palm Tree Books New, used, and antiquarian books on the Islamic world, Occidental, California
• PAK Bookstore Catalog
• Persian North America based bookstores and book distributors
• Rashid Sales, inc.
• SABA Wholesale and Retail Mostly Arabic Music
• SARA Distribution (Kurdish)
• Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium
• Suq: The Oriental Institute Museum Store: Books and gifts relating to the ancient Near East including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Israel, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
• Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium / Het Oosters Antiquarium BV
• Sulaimans' Bookshop
• WorldWeb Sufi Bookstore
• Arabic2000.Com: Bookstore
• BooksPrice.com: Multiple Book Price Comparison

Publishers

• The American University in Cairo Press (Gopher)
• Boustany's Publishing House (Egypt)
• The Center for Cross-cultural Learning (CCCL)
• Dar Al-Fikr (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Dar Al-Tahrir
• Dar El Ilm Lil-Malayin, Beirut, Lebanon
• IDC Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Kitap kurdu: List of Turkish books

• Digital Freedom Network. Voices of Freedom: Middle East and North Africa
• The Near East Heritage in America
• Libraries of Timbuktu : for the preservation & promotion of African Literary Heritage
• Edited from the void The slew of cultural magazines crowding newsstands and bookstores offers a deceptive picture of Egypt's publishing scene. Rania Khallaf follows the plight of the Egyptian literary magazine (Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 2 - 8 August 2001, Issue No.545)
• The Library of Alexandria
• The Library of Alexandria / electronic books in image format

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

Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.