We have received notice of a new graduate program – “Politics of Conflict” – being offered by the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. The language of instruction is English. The website of the program is www.bgu.ac.il/politics-MA.
From Rated Colleges.com comes a list of one hundred online courses on the Middle East or related topics.
The Middle East Institute has announced a new free online collection of resource materials related to the Camp David peace process as part of its “Viewpoints” series.
Go to the free collection: ” Legacy of Camp David: 1979-2009″
The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) is a superb online journal edited by Professor Barry Rubin. In the most recent issue you’ll find an article by Jonathan Spyer on how the recent (2006) war in Lebanon failed to resolve that country’s political problems.
Follow this link to the Arab Media and Society Newsletter.
One regularly updated source containing a BBC news feed and short summaries of recent trends and events is the home page of the History of the Middle East Database (see links on left side bar).
A broader selection of news sources (where you will also find a BBC news feed) is at “Middle East News” (left Links bar). This page includes links to regional news sources in Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu as well as English.
Articles that deal with broader trends are archived under “Supplemental Resources” at the Islamic Middle East course syllabus (left Links bar). You must be working through your Library’s licensed ProQuest database for the links to work. NMH students have direct access when working on the school’s “Virtual Desktop.”
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