NEWS
|BBC World Service|International News from MSNBC|International News from ABC|Middle East News from CNN|
On-line adaptations of TV broadcasts tend to be simple; their writers assume an 8th grade reading level. For more detailed analysis, try the following links:
|The Guardian|The Washington Post|The Sydney Morning Herald|LA Times|Chicago Tribune|National Geographic|Archaeology|NY Times|The Times of London| TRY THESE>Online Newspapers (1500 worldwide)<TRY THESE|National Public Radio (sound files)|State Department Reports on Global Terrorism|IranMania news service|Jerusalem Post|Ha'aretz|
PHOTO GALLERIES AND ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES
|Pictures and History of Isfahan, Iran (Award-winning site)|MIT's Aga Khan Visual Archives of Islamic Architecture|Luke Powell's Photography of Afghanistan, Palestine, Egypt, India|Pictures of Afghanistan|Photographs of Islamic Art and Architecture|On-Line Art Store (Search "Islamic")|Soviet interest in Islamic architecture in Samarkand|Bukhara’s Mir-i Arab madrasa|Modern calligraphic wood engravings|Persian, Seljuk, and Mamluk art with textual descriptions|Architecture resources (directory of architecture-related websites and discussion groups)|
SACRED TEXTS OF WORLD RELIGIONS
|http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm|
This site includes on-line texts from many major religious and philosophical traditions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Buddhism, Baha'ism, the I Ching, various ancient religions (Egyptian, Greek, Roman...), Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Neopaganism, and even Satanism. It also includes pages on scriptures relating to special topics such as women, sexuality, UFOs, and the predictions of Nostradamus.
TRAVEL
|Bike Tour around the Mediterranean (Includes pictures, sound files, and videos)|Pictures and history of Egypt|Syria Tourism Center|Egypt Tourism Center|
PROFESSIONAL SITES
|American Research Center in Cairo|American University in Cairo|University of Tehran|American University of Beirut|
Suggestions for new links? Old links not working? Please email me at igesink@bw.edu
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