Research and Course Guides: Islamic Studies: Newspapers

Current Newspapers - Online Databases at UST

Factiva
Provides electronic access to hundreds of newspapers from around the U.S. and the world.

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Comprehensive collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. All articles are full-text. Updated quarterly. 1990- .

Links to Newspapers

World-Newspapers.com
"Religion Magazines" page includes a list of newspapers, which pertain to the topic of World Religions.

Newspapers and Other Media Sources from Islamic Countries

Al Jazeera English
English-language website for the Qatar-based news service that covers world news, including online live video feeds.
BBC News: Middle East
Continuously updated news of the region. Countries covered include: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine areas, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi, Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen.
Electronic Intifada (Palestine)
"The Electronic Intifada (EI)...publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective."
Inside Indonesia
"Inside Indonesia aims to provide a deeper image of Indonesia than that painted by mainstream media. It focuses on human rights, environmental, social and political issues, but is not limited to those issues. It is not an academic journal, but a publication which produces high standard, interesting, jargon free material about Indonesia by Indonesians or by others who have travelled, lived and/or done research in the country."
Muslim News
UK based Muslim newspaper.

Newspapers in Lexis-Nexis Academic

Lexis Nexis Academic has an extensive list of newspapers in English published in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as wire services. See the list below in this box. LNA maintains individual text files of the articles in each paper to facilitate "data mining." You search for a term in a particular paper, and LNA gives you the articles which contain it. Follow the instructions here for searching within particular papers.

1. Click on Lexis Nexis Academic at bottom of page.

2. Find the box in the upper left entitled "Search the News." Find the lowest search window in that box labeled "by Source Title" and enter one of the news sources listed below. As you type the title it will pop up in blue type below the window. You can click on this blue type to load it.

3. Enter a search term in the top search window labeled "search for." To practice enter Obama as a trial search. The results will be organized by relevance, which means the frequency with which Obama appears in the article. To sort by date find the widow labeled Sort near the top of the screen, click on the dropdown arrow, and click on Publication Date.

Middle Eastern Titles:

7 Days (United Arab Emirates)
Al-Bawaba (Jordan)
Arab News (Saudi Arabia)
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Dar Al Hayat (Lebanon)
Emirates News Agency (WAM)
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Report
Jordan News Agency (Petra)
Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)
The Kurdish Globe
Mideast Mirror (London; digest of Mideastern press)
Palestine Chronicle
Qatar News Agency
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Press Agency
Times of Oman
TradeArabia (Bahrain)
Turkish Daily News
The Week (Oman)
Yemen News Agency

Religion News

Religion Dispatches
"A daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation."
Religion News Blog
Daily postings from "the only secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics—exclusively." Other parts of the site are available via a paid subscription.
Religion and Ethics Weekly
PBS.