October
2001
Resources
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News
Alternet,
news and analyses: www.alternet.org
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: www.fair.org
GNN (GuerrillaNewsNetwork): www.guerrillanews.com
New York City Independent Media Center: www.nyc.indymedia.org
The Nation, progressive weekly: www.thenation.com
News on the Near East in English
Al-Ahram, a major weekly newspape based in Egypt: www.ahram.org.eg/weekly
Ha’aretz, progressive Israeli newspaper: www.haaretzdaily.com
Afghan Network News: www.afghan-network.net/News
MERIP (Middle East Research & Information Project): www.merip.org
Books
John L. Esposito The
Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? (Oxford University Press, 1987).
A study of contemporary Islam, and political and religious movements.
Amira Hass Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under
Siege (Metropolitan Books, 1999). Personal narrative of the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict: Israeli journalist chronicles life in the Gaza Strip.
Gilles Kepel Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharoah
(University of California Press, 1986). Comprehensive study of extremist
Muslim groups in Egypt—good introduction to modern political Islam
in general.
William Cleveland History of the Modern Middle East (Westview
Press, 1999). Good overview of Middle Eastern history.
