Research Guides: POLS 243 Gender and Sexuality-Africa and the Middle East (HC): News

Using News Sources

New York Times
Full-text access to news articles, blog posts, videos, images, and multimedia features. Coverage from 1851-present.

General News Sources

ProQuest Research Library
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

World News Connection
Material was obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, and socioeconomic issues and events. Full-text available on-line. Coverage stopped in December 2013.

Regional News Sources

Africa confidential
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Current news and analysis of political and economic issues.
Africa research bulletin. Economic, financial, and technical series
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One of a two part monthly journal that surveys and analyzes issues continent-wide. This part addresses economic and financial issues.
Africa research bulletin. Political, social, and cultural series
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This is the second part of the journal devoted to political, social, and cultural issues.

AllAfrica.com
Free online access to recent news stories and features gathered from the entire continent.

Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya, a website sponsored by the Arab Studies Institute, includes material on current politicalevents as well as long term issues.
MideastWire.com
Provides concise, translated,daily briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Covers 2005 to the present.