A New Middle Eastern Studies Resource

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MERIP and the Kevorkian Center at New York University are pleased to announce the launch of Middle East Desk

http://middleeastdesk.org/

Middle East Desk is a new web-based gateway for journalists to informed, engaged analysis and commentary on the most important stories from the Middle East and North Africa.

Middle East Desk is intended to help reporters covering breaking stories, editors and producers looking for comment on those stories, and assignment editors looking for ideas for in-depth features. Middle East Desk is not a news aggregator or a wire service, but a guide to resources for understanding and explaining the news.

Each of the country pages on the site features:

+ datebooks of newsworthy events
+ contact information for country specialists, including NYU faculty
+ a brief synopsis of the country's recent history and pressing issues in its current affairs
+ almanac-style data
+ links to background articles

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact Michelle at <mwoodward@merip.org>.

(MERIP = Middle East Research and Information Project. Check out MERIP's Web site here.)