From: jhurley@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic
Subject: Mideast Mailing Lists
Date: 11 Feb 93 01:20:28 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Some time ago, I posted a request for information on Mideast-
related email lists. I received a remarkably large volume of
response; I have compiled this information below. I didn't keep
track of which of the responses were posted on SCA, and which
were received by private email, so I apologize for any
redundancy, but in any case it should be useful to have all this
info in one downloadable file. I want to acknowledge that some of
what is below is verbatim repetition of information as I received
it. Thanks to John Hinton, Alexandre Khalil, Ayeda Ayed, Jon
Anderson, and S.M.M. Al-Taher.



Country-specific nets:

PALESTINE NET at palestine-net-request@mcs.kent.edu
     This includes excellent news items from wire services and
     Palestinian and Israeli media. A particularly interesting
     item I saw there yesterday was a summary of Hebrew press
     editorials from the last week, something we ought to regard
     as invaluable since few on our side read these papers; I
     don't know if this was a regular feature or not. P-net also
     includes various postings of the usual kinds.

ZIONIST-ENTITY-NET (just kidding, it's really called ISRAELINE)
     and ISRAEL-MIDEAST at listserv@.nysernet.org. 
     I haven't read these yet, but the similarity to the email
     address of an individual notorious for disrupting this
     newsgroup is disturbing.

EGYPTNET egypt-net-request@das.harvad.edu
     This is issued as a daily digest of posts received. There is
     some news about Egypt, some political arguments and
     discussion of Egyptian issues, and a great deal of
     metadiscussion and responses to the problems caused by a
     couple of posters who post comments which they probably
     imagine to be amusing about various groups.   

TRKNWS-L listserv@uscvm Turkish news.

LEBANON NET is said to be available at Leb-Net.ctr.columbia.edu,
     but I haven't been able to reach this one, depite repeated
     efforts. If anyone has another address for it, please post.

ALGNEWS listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu Algeria News, in French.

TUNISNET listserv@psuvm.psu.edu. The Tunisia Network.



Islam-related lists:

ISLAM-L at listserv@uldyvm.bitnet
     
MUSLIMS listserv@psuvm.bitnet

MSA-L  listserv@psuvm.psu.edu |Muslim Student Association


Jon Anderson, editor of the Middle East Studies Assn Bulletin,
directed me to a list of Mideast-related lists in the MESA
Bulletin no. 25 (Dec. 1992), p. 179. He notes that "Some of these
are technical (Turkish, Hebrew TEX), some local (Maghrib
scientists).  There are some others not listed in the article
that will be listed in a future one."
 

I also received from Alexandre Khalil a large list of African,
Afro-American, and Afro-Latin-related lists, which he received
from Art "Rambo" McGee, and which I will keep on disk and forward
to anyone who asks. Those most likely to be of interest to SCA
readers were:

AFRICA-L listserv@vtvm2.cc.vt.edu 
        
AFRICANA  listserv%wmvm1.bitnet@vtvm2.cc.vt.edu Technology and
     Africa


Some other lists of interest, from an appendix to the McGee list:

DEVEL-L  listserv@auvm.american.edu |Technology Transfer in
     Int'l Develop.
DIVERSE   | listserv@msu.edu |Diversity In Development
ECONOMY   | listserv@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx |Economies of Less
     Developed Nations
INTERCUL  | comserve%rpiecs.bitnet@vm.its.rpi.edu |Intercultural
     Communication
INTERCUL's COMSERVE listserver uses the commands JOIN and DROP
     instead of LISTSERV's SUBSCRIBE and SIGNOFF.
NATCHAT   | listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu |Indigenous Peoples Discuss.
NATIVE-L  | listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu |Indigenous Peoples Info
RURALDEV  | listserv@ksuvm.ksu.edu |Community/Rural Economic
     Development
UN        | listserv@indycms.iupui.edu |United Nations
WORLD-L   | listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu |Non-Eurocentric World
     History
XCULT-X   | listserv@umrvmb.umr.edu |Intercultural Communication
     Practicum



John Habeeb Hurley