Alternative News Sources and Interesting Blogs on the Middle East
Periodically updated (most recent:  Feb. 13, 2011)
Note: some of these are sources from outside the US; some are alternatives to the US mainstream media. All disclaimers apply.

If anyone has suggestions for additions and alternative viewpoints, please contact me at:
Ellen.Fleischmann@udayton.edu


Al-Ahram Weekly Online (Egypt) The Guardian, Manchester (UK) Salon
Alternative Information Center (Jerusalem) Haaretz, Jerusalem Syria Comment (blog of Josh Landis, professor)
Baghdad Burning (Riverbend - girl blog from Iraq, 2003-2007) Informed Comment (blog of Juan Cole, professor) Tikkun (a Jewish magazine that deals with Palestinian-Israeli peace issues)
BBC Al-Jazeera The angry Arab (Asad Abu Khalil's blog)
Common Dreams Jadaliyya (politics, economics, culture, history - Middle East) The Arabist (Issandr El Amrani's blog from Egypt)
Daily Star (Beirut) Jordan Times Just world news (blog of Helena Cobban, journalist)
Foreign Policy Middle East Channel Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) Electronic intifada
Independent Media Centre Mondoweiss: the war of ideas in the Middle East