FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) is the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance. FAIR focuses public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's allegiance to official agendas, and their insensitivity to women, labor, minorities, and other public interest constituencies. FAIR seeks to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater media pluralism and the inclusion of public interest voices in national debates.

Periodicals

Foreign Affairs provides summaries online of articles in the current issue with full text of lead article.

IANWeb Resources--Periodicals provides50+ periodicals on international affairs and foreign relations (many include text of current issue).

Each issue of Current History is devoted to a single country or important area of the world. Full articles available both current and some archived.

Foreign Policy provides a full text version of one article in current and archived issues.

International Organization provides abstracts for the current issue and archived issues.

The Washington Quarterly

The Christian Science Monitor has full text of lead articles.

AllPolitics Newstream: Latest 10 stories provided by CNN/Time interactive.

AP Update: Top news and International stories by the minute throughout the day.

The Boston Globe: Breaking News: Latest breaking news from around the world. Updated every 30 minutes.

CNN - World: Top stories from around the world.

Fox News - News Wires: Current AP news wires arranged by hour with keyword search capability.

Foreign News Headlines: International headlines provided by the Las Vegas Sun. Arranged by region.

IANWeb Resources--News Sources provides links to news from around the world such as the Baltics Online; the Central European Online Navigator; the China News Digest; the India Network; and International Peacekeeping News.

London's The Times: Front page of The Times with links to world news.

The Nando Times: Top News Stories from around the globe.

NATO--Press Releases

American Journalism Review News Link lists links to more than 4000 online newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and news services worldwide.

The Omnivore is a comprehensive daily news service designed to quickly and concisely deliver coverage of events around the world as they happen. In addition, the Omnivore seeks to fulfill the need for truly global coverage, placing access to traditionally under-reported or ignored regions side by side with more heavily reported regions.

Washington Post - International pages have news and web links to individual countries.

Al Quds Newspaper from Jerusalem.

Al Ayyam from Ramallah.

Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) is a project of Internews Middle East that aims at supporting Arabic-speaking journalists and media personnel. AMIN's focus is on putting Arabic language reports and news stories on the World Wide Web and training journalists in accessing Arabic media and other resources on the Internet. AMIN (which means 'faithful' in Arabic), commits itself to an authentic and faithful reproduction of media related materials in their original uncensored format.

Palestine Times is a monthly political English newspaper that contains the Palestine news, World news, interviews and analysis.

The Jordan Star Jordan's political, economic and cultural weekly brought to you online.

Arabic Media Internet Network is a project of Internews Middle East that aims at supporting Arabic-speaking journalists and media personnel. AMIN's focus is on putting Arabic language reports and news stories on the World Wide Web… [English and Arabic versions]

Jerusalem Post has the full text of its current edition online.

One World News Service: Middle East

Universal Times (Clarinet news--Middle East): ClariNet and USENET are network news services which are organized into hundreds of separate newsgroups. Newsgroups deliver information to subscribers interested in specific subject areas. Network news is distributed from a computer on campus called the newshost. ClariNet newsgroups are derived from the UPI, Reuters, and other commercial wire services. Unlike USENET stories, ClariNet stories are written by professional journalists. This is volatile information; ClariNet news stories are retained for limited periods of time. Stories from UPI are kept for two weeks; Reuters stories are retained for seven days. Clarinet Homepage

Al Mashriq - the Levant - Lebanon and the Middle East is a repository of information from the Levant in general and Lebanon in particular.

Arab Net In Arabic.

Justice in the Middle East is an on-line project of the Boston Committee on the Middle East.

The Wisdom Fund promotes social justice and interfaith understanding by disseminating "The Truth About Islam," and by providing concise statements of Islamic values and beliefs, news and commentary on issues of concern to Muslims, and resources for concerned citizens and activists.

Middle East Information Center at the University of Texas-Austin is a service of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UTA. This site provides numerous links divided by subject and by country/region. This site is searchable. An excellent starting point for resources on the Middle East.

CNN - Struggle for peace in the Middle East: CNN coverage of the conflict, focused mainly on Israel, Palestine and Lebanon.

  Mideast Peace gopher has extensive documents on the Peace Process.

  Arab-Israeli Agreements has most documents relating to the Arab-Israeli Peace Process dating back to the Balfour Agreement.

  Middle East Peace Process (Links): A collection of links on the Arab-Israeli conflict/peace process, and in particular its Palestinian-Israeli dimensions. Many of these links (extensive) are found throughout this gateway.

  Cairo 96 is the official website of the 1996 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economic summit in Cairo. MENAnet is the official site for MENA summits.

  For Political Parties, Movements and Advocacy Groups see Middle East Peace Process Links or the following:

Guide to the Middle East Peace Process Maintained by Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Includes all treaties of the current peace process, press releases, and other basic documents.

International Center for Peace in the Middle East (ICPME) exists to promote peace, coexistence, democracy and social justice in the Middle East. This site keeps information on the [latest news], [Middle East Peace Links], [Peace News Articles] and the Center itself.

The Middle East Multilateral Negotiations is designed to serve as a clearinghouse of information and analysis, from all parties and perspectives, on the multilateral talks. Maintained by University of California Institute in Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).

The Regional Security Center (RSC) in Amman, Jordan, is a regional crisis resolution center that is to facilitate rapid communication, exchange critical information, and deescalation of acute conflicts.

Arab-Israeli Agreement Maps

Israeli-PLO Peace Agreement

Alternative Information Center (AIC) is located in Jerusalem and is a research and activism center that works on protecting Palestinian human, land, political and water rights.

Baraka is a Palestinian NGO internet host system, with links to a number of Palestinian NGO sites.

Birzeit University is an independent Palestinian institution, situated 20 km north of Jerusalem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Founded as a school in 1924, Birzeit began its university programme in 1972 and is currently introducing a masters degree programme. The Birzeit website, launched 6 June 1996, is Netscape-enhanced for all versions 1.1 after.

Center for Palestine Research and Studies (CPRS) was founded in March 1993 in response to the need for active Palestinian scholarship on issues related to Palestine…. The Center for Palestinian Research acts as an independent "think tank" for Palestinian policy makers on issues related to Palestine….

Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine seeks to bring into focus the implications of specific U.S. policies with regard to the Palestine question and to provide a much-needed Palestinian/Arab perspective that will address the political, academic and media establishments in Washington, D.C.

The Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites: Separated into categories - Academic &:Research, Education, Government & Services, Human Rights, Internet Services, Media, Personal Homepages, Travel & Tourism - with reviews, awards, search the internet and more!

The Council for the National Interest dares to speak out as the only lobbying organization of its kind advocating grassroot support for a US foreign policy recognizing an independent state alongside the Jewish-Arab state of Israel. CNI members promote negotiations that openly discuss a shared Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, water and land. A wise peace is a just peace.

Eye On Palestine Homepage is maintained by the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ)… The site presents a summary of each Israeli settlement activity, supported with facts from the field, photos and maps.

Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is an independent nonprofit research and publication center, not affiliated with any political organization or governement. IPS promotes research, analysis and documentation on the Arab-Israeli conflict and its peaceful resolution…

Area Studies: Palestine provides background information on Palestine as well as links to Yahoo country information and the PCI Map Collections.

Palestinian Academic Network - PLANET

Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy (PCPD) is a noprofit Palestinian NGO dedicated to promoting concepts of democracy, peace, social justice, human rights, and civic education in the Palestinian areas….

Palestinian Economy Project is a website dedicated to the dissemination of economic information relating to Palestine.

Palestinian National Authority: Information from the Ministry of Information and the Bureau of Statistics.

Palestine-Net is an independent effort to gather and organize as much as possible information about Palestine: Land, people, history, politics, economy, education, culture .. you name it. We also hope to increase awareness among Palestinians around the globe and help them network and make use of the Internet potential (since, in this digital world, so far, we are all equal)….

Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information is a joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestine Information Center is an organization formed by a diverse group of individuals committed to the pursuit of democracy and a just and lasting peace in the Middle East by encouraging sharing information relevant to the Middle East in general and Palestine in particular.

Palestine Development InfoNet disseminates information on development assistance and reconstruction in the West Bank and Gaza for use by NGOs, the private sector, policy makers, and scholarly researchers.

The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet is a non-partisan project devoted to the dissemination of ideas and scholarly information, in an effort to foster scholarly collaboration, policy research, and innovative thinking on the Palestinian refugee issue.

Asian Studies Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin provides assistance to all Asianists in finding information on the Internet regarding Asian studies.

American Red Cross

Amnesty International

Center For Defense Information

CIA Publications and Handbooks

The Library of Congress

International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is a one-stop information network for security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations. ISN is a daily updated, searchable clearinghouse for resources in the field of security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations. It is organized in subject and regional listing, covers current issues and links to related research institutions.

National Security Agency

U.S. Department of State

Agency for International Development

U.S. Information Agency

U.S. Mission to the United Nations

The White House | The Senate | The House of Representatives

RAND Organization

NATO

Organization of American States

The United Nations

World Bank

World Health Organization

Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies

UC Berkeley Middle East Studies gopher

University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Bulletin

Brookings Institution

Cato Institute

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