ART TV
ANA Radio and Television
Voice of America
LBC International
Web Magazines:
Alnashra: Arab
Media House
Arab Ambassador
Arabic News. Com
Arabia Online
Arab Net
Arabic Web Portals:
Planetarabia.com
Arabicseek.com
Albawaba.com
ART TV
http://www.art-tv.net
ART, short for Arab Radio and Television,
has a useful webpage for information regarding the different programming
schedules for all twelve of their channels. It has a day by day schedule
of events for the current month. If interested, you can order ART from
Dish Network.
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ANA Radio and Television
http://www.anaradio.com
Arab American News Agency has a website complete
with a live broadcast. Based in Washington DC, it provides the Arab community
with programing both on radio and television.
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Voice Of America
http://www.voa.gov/arabic/index.html
This page is an information site for the Voice
Of America radio station. It provides transmission of news in Arabic
through the internet. It also contains schedules and frequencies as well
as the news in the english writing. A description of all of the station's
shows is also included in this informative site.
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LBC International
http://www.lbcsat.com.lb/
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation
has a very organized website Lebanon with a lot of information. A person
can watch the news broadcast live every evening, as well as read about
the weather and. There is also a taped version of the news available at
all times. They even have all of their famous commercials on the web page.
The World Cup Soccer schedule is located online as well as video comments
about the tournament from some celebrities. One page has all of the statistics
of viewership along with graphs. LBC Hit is a section for current international
and Arab hits that a person can download and listen to. LBC also makes
the channel distribution and technical information available on their website.
This website has so much information that one forgets himself in all of
the fun.
If you go to http://www.lbci.com.lb
you will find the international page for LBC. This eventually links to
the main page, but it has different information, such as descriptions of
some popular LBC programs. There are some errors with the links on some
parts of the LBC page, but on the whole, it is an excellent site to visit.
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Alnashra:Arab Media House
http://arabmedia.com
Arab Media House is an online magazine that
deals with its major target audience being Arab Americans. It has very
informative articles relating to Arabs and Arab-American culture such as
"Arabs on Titanic Tale: We Share the Pain But Not the Glory" and
articles written by famous Arab Americans like Casey Kasem. The site
also offers archives to articles from its past issues. This page is a very
easily navigatable page and is very useful. The writers that contribute
to this magazine are known scholars,politicians, and journalist; thus making
it a very reliable source for those doing research on Arab issues or Arab
Americans. This magazine is updated monthly.
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Arab Ambassador
http://www.arabambassador.com
Arab Ambassador claims to be the biggest
Arab magazine on the web. It sure has a lot of information. It is a monthly
magazine dedicated to educating people about the Arab culture. This homepage
also is centered around Arab American society.
The Arab forum has information about
everything from famous Arab stars and movies to a list of Arab American
doctors. This part of the page also focuses on different people in our
culture. You can look for some information about Arabs who have made major
contributions in sports or you can look for the Arab leader of the month.
It has a listing of addresses about major Arab stars, and it also has a
monthly Arab singer focus. There are many other subdivisions in this page
that are really interesting such as Arab song or Arab children fashion
or even Arab food of the month. With over 35 articles, this page is really
fun and worth looking at. Everything that you can think of is covered.
The Family section has articles about
each person in the family. It has job assistance, womens and mens issues,
horoscopes, medical news, and even a marriage finding page, just to name
a few. Like the Arab forum, it is a very informative section.
Other sections that one may
access on Arab Ambassador include information on Arab ambassadors, an editorial
page, and a section on promoting Arab culture in TV and public libraries.
This webmagazine is one of our favorites because it has articles dealing
with everything imaginable. We suggest that you give it a try.
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Arabic News. Com
http://www.arabicnews.com
This is a daily news source for the
latest developments in the Middle East. It is useful because of its news
summaries that are located on the front page. If the reader is interested,
he can be linked to the complete article. Arabic News. Com also has sections
relating to weather, computing, currency exchange, and travel information
to the different Arab countries.
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Arabia Online
http://www.arabia.com
Arabia Online is another daily news
site with much more graphics than Arabic News. Com. It also has a daily
news summary with links to major articles. This page has links to chat
rooms, horoscopes, people connection, a shopping center, and an Arab information
database.
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Arabnet 
http://www.countrylink.com/arabnet/main.htm
Arabnet is an arab magazine published
every week. This source is written entirely in Arabic, and we have decided
to include it for those of you who like to read your news in Arabic rather
than English. This page also covers many aspect of Arab Culture. It even
has an Arab chat room. There are archives of the late Nizar Qabbani poems,
as well as new poems from other writers. This page contains many editorial
style articles as well.
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Planetarabia.com
http://www.planetarabia.com
Planetarabia.com is an Arabic portal that is targeted at Arabs
all around the world. There are many things you can view here, whether you want to chat with other
Arab students or read the about the latest news in the Middle East, you will find what you want here.
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Arabicseek.com
http://www.arabicseek.com
Arabicseek.com is another Arabic web portal, and it also has many features that
you may find interesting. If you want to know the weather in the Arab Cities, check your horoscope, or read about the
latest Arab entertainment news, then you may want to check this out.
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Albawaba.com
http://www.albawaba.com
Al-Bawaba ("The Gateway" in
Arabic) is an Arabic internet portal offering a unique range of
Middle-East oriented channels and services. Al-Bawaba provides independent
coverage of news events in all Middle Eastern and North African countries
from a regional perspective and produces original contents for news,
business,travel, web guide, entertainment, sports, children's, health and
other programs. In addition to Arabic, many of the channels are also
provided in English and French.
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