Readings:

• Session I: Gender in the Middle East
  • Lila Abu Lughod
• Session II: Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism
  • Vincent Cornell, "Jihad"
  • Khaled Abou el Fadl, "Islam and the Theology of Power"
  • Michael Hunt's Article on post-September 11 US-Mid-East relations
• Session III: Palestine-Israel
  • Primer on Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Links:

Resources:

• Exercise in identifying religious figures

Institutes

• Justice Africa – British NGO for African development and civil society

• Arab-European League – Belgian-Muslim outreach organization

• Cultural Research Bureau – Iranian NGO concerned with government, education, environment, etc.

• Amnesty International – NGO concerned with human rights issues

• RAWA – Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, political organization of Afghan women

• Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information – Joint thinktank concerned with Israeli-Palestinian conflict

• International Organization for Migration – NGO concerned with development and migration issues

• Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies – NGO, founded by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, concerned with democracy and civil society

• Muslim American Society – non-profit charitable and cultural organization

• OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

• Global Research in International Affairs Center –

• KDP – Official website of the Kurdistan Democratic Party

• PUK – Official Website of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

• Iraq Foundation – Non-profit founded by Iraqi expatriates concerned with democracy and human rights issues

• US Embassy – Baghdad - Website of the US Embassy in Baghdad

• Arab League – Official website of the Arab League

• Palestinian National Authority – Official website of the Palestinian National Authority

• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Official website of Israel’s Foreign Ministry

• Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Official Website of Saudi Foreign Ministry

• Egypt Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Official website of Egyptian Foreign Ministry

• Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Official Website of Turkish Foreign Ministry

• SCIRI – Official website of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq

 Media

• Islam Online – Dubai-based online news publication

• Sabawoon – Resource for Afghanistan news

• Afghanistan News – Collection of news stories about Afghanistan

• Afgha – Afghani/French non-profit concerned with Afghani politics and events

• Afghan News Channel – Clearing house for Afghanistan-related wire-stories

• Afghan Observer – Online journal of opinion and analysis of Afghani issues

• IRIN News – UN sponsored news organization specializing in humanitarian issues

• South Asian Media – News organization covering South Asian countries

• Bakhtar News Agency – State-run Afghani news organization

• Times of Central Asia – News resource for Central Asian countries

• Middle East Review of International Affairs – Israeli journal of international political issues

• Reconstructing Iraq – Online resource for information on the Iraq war, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count – Compilation of Iraq war casualty figures. Most information taken from government sources

• Iraq Daily – Online news resource for Iraq

• Jordan- National Information System – Jordan’s state-run source for government information

• Allafrica.com – Website dedicated to news in Africa

• Al-ahram – Egyptian weekly news journal

• Ha’aretz – Israeli daily newspaper

• Lebanon Daily Star – Lebanese daily newspaper

• Al-Jazeera – Qatar-based Arabic news service

• BBC – British news service, concentration on international stories

• Gulf Times-Qatar – Qatari daily newspaper

• Cairo Times – English –language Egyptian daily newspaper

• SANA-Syria – Syrian state-run news organization

• Middle East News – World News’ Middle East branch

• Iraqieconomy.org – A collection of public documents relating to the economy of Iraq

• A family in Baghdad – The weblogs of an Iraqi family

• Emadeddin Baghi – Articles on the Iranian dissident writer

• Massoud Behnoud – Articles by Iranian journalist

• Blogs by Iranians –  collection of weblogs of Iranian writers

• Editor: Myself – One of the most widely read Iranian internet writers

• Institute for War and Peace Reporting – Articles on war zones in several languages

• Middle East Report – DC based non-profit journal on Middle East issues

• Palestine-Israel Journal – joint Palestinian and Israeli journal of politics, Economics and Culture

• Jazbah – Website profiling notable Pakistani women

• Dawn – English-language newspaper of Pakistan

• Pakistan Link – US-based website concerned with Pakistani issues

• Payvand– Iranian journal for news and culture

• South Asian Women’s Network – Website concerned with womens’ issues in South Asia

• Chowrangi – US-based journal on Pakistani diaspora issues

• Bitter Lemons – Journal on Palestinian-Israeli conflict

• Gateway Trust – British organization dedicated to publish non-fiction from Arab and Muslim writers

• Q-News – British Muslim monthly

• Business Today Egypt – Egyptian English-language business magazine

• Iranian.com – Iranian online political and cultural journal

• Dar Al-Hayat – Lebanese English language web-journal

• Open Democracy – Web-journal concerned with politics, culture, technology, etc.  with many articles on the Middle East

• Muslim Wake Up! – Muslim-American political web-journal

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs – DC-based magazine on Middle East Issues

• World Press – News organization with international inclination

Literature

•  Nawal El-Saadawi  Homepage of the prominent Egyptian author

• Men, Women and Gods: Nawal El-Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics

• Online book about Saadawi’s politics and poetics

• Exiled Writers Ink! – British Journal for writers in exile

• The Third Script – Journal of art and literature collective

• Zan – Iranian Women’s Literary Journal

• Forugh Farrokhzad – Website dedicated to the work of the Iranian woman poet

• Behzad Yaghmaian – Website of Iranian-born writer in the US

   

*This workshop is funded in part by the Department of Education Title VIa grant awarded to NC State.