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.
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