When it comes to search engines, you might as well start with the biggest. With Search Engine Colossus, best described as a "search engine of search engines," you can "explore 351 countries and territories." Just link down to the country of your choice and begin a journey that, literally, has no end!
From site description: "Your source for Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern sites. You can find Arabic newspapers, Arabic tv, Arabic radio, Arabic music..." and the list goes on!
Links to Arabic Middle Eastern online newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations from this giant news portal.
Links to Arabic North African online newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations from this giant news portal.
Recommended online dictionary with English-Arabic, French-Arabic, German-Arabic, Turkish-Arabic versions. [R.C.]
Scroll down this large dictionary portal of Afro-Asiatic Free Online Dictionaries to the Arabic language offerings.
The Arabic Wikipedia has more than 60,000 articles and continues to grow. [J.D.]
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. Arabic language and culture resources for students and teachers - worth exploring! [B.S.]
Description: The Five College Arabic Course Guides include study guides for students, guides for conversation partners, and links to supplementary materials. The guides follow the Al-Kitaab Arabic Series from Georgetown University Press. Also guides and audio and video materials for colloquial Levantine. [B.S.]
From above LangMedia site, a short Arabic reference grammar created by Professor Mahammed Jiyad of Mount Holyoke College; available for download in Word Doc or PDF Format (recommended!) [B.S.]
By Mohammad Saleh Kayali, a Media & Journalism student at Damascus University in Syria. Basic to intermediate materials; above hot link goes to current lesson; use archive to connect to previous lessons. [B.S.]
Over 600 songs by 135 artists, with lyrics and English translations. Also occasionally has comments on cultural references or connotations of expressions found in the songs. [R.C.]
Large media site with links to multi-dialect singing competitions, talk shows, music videos, movies, Lebanese sitcoms, Egyptian political dramas, comedies, a host of Arabic radio staions, and much, much more! Also links to http://6rbtata.com/ for non-video music resources. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE. [A.S.]
Interesting Moroccan media portal with links to Moroccan, Algerian, Egyptian, and Berber music, videos, movies and plays. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE. [A.S.]
Very rich French/Arabic site with links to Arabic language film clips, Algerian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Egyptian, Kuwaiti, and MSA television and radio programs and stations, as well as music sites. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Another user recommended site for music, television and plays. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Downloadable Arabic music. [D.L.I.]
The title says it all. [D.L.I.]
Selected clips of Arabic TV broadcasts reflecting radical or fringe viewpoints. With English subtitles. [R.C.]
Many of the al-Jazeera programs are available free on iTunes as audio or video podasts. You can get transcripts of the shows on the aljazeera page under the pulldown for sattelite (الفضائية) and then pull down the “live broadcasts” for some of the more popular shows. [R.C.]
Many (but not all!) of the videos hosted by google can be downloaded in for iPod viewing. Under the video there will be a blue, underlined ref to the artist or film. Press that and for some of the films/clips you’ll see an option for iPod in the frame on the right. Right click that and save it to your PC and you can import it into iTunes for viewing on your iPod. [R.C.]
From the Middle East and Islamic Studies collection at Cornell University Library. Links to both Arabic and English language selections. [B.S.]
A very detailed Arabic language website for fans of the Harry Potter series. People, places, biographies of characters, history, storyline, movie stills, etc. Lots of pictures. Very well done. [J.D.]
Lots of interesting paranormal articles in Arabic on topics ranging from Nostrodamus and the Bermuda Triangle to Bigfoot and Atlantis. Articles about horror story writers like Steven King and HP Lovecraft. [J.D.]
Five Edgar Allan Poe stories translated into Arabic. [J.D.]
Modern Arabic poetry website. Very well done. Lots of genres. Articles. [J.D.]
The Qur’an, Muslim Songs, Videos, and Talks. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Muslim Songs and Oral Recitation of the Qur’an. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Musicians Singing Muslim Songs. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Muslim songs, videos, concerts, and musician interviews. For a detailed description and user's guide, click HERE [A.S.]
Website of Coptic Orthodox Studies. [R.M.]
Good website for background information on Islam. [J.D.]
English internet magazine also available in hard copy subscription. Good resource to find out what is up and coming in the Arab arts world. [J.D.]
English literary magazine out of the UK with English translations of emerging Arab poets and short story writers; also excerpts from novels. [J.D.]