NEW - MideastWire.com

Daily Briefs from the Arabic and Persian Media

Responding to a request from the McCormack School, the library has purchased a membership with Mideastwire.com. For access to their website please send your university affiliated email address to info@mideastwire.com and they will activate your account.

 Mideastwire started over three and half years ago as a service providing daily briefs translated into English from the Arabic and Persian media - these include all of the top newspapers, some satellite TV and radio. They do about 35 briefs each business day covering opinion, business, political and society/cultural pieces that appear in these various media outlets - you get that day's most interesting news emailed to you, something which they think gives subscribers a better sense of what the local and pan-Arab media is reporting on and discussing. Each brief also contains precisely translated quotes, statistics and context. In addition we have a searchable database of over 22,000 archived items on their website, making Mideastwire ideally suited for researchers, journalists, policy makers, advocates etc.