Keeping Up with the Islamic World

I've created a new searchroll called Islamic World Press.  A permanent link may be found in the right sidebar under Searchrolls.  Using the maximum of 25 searchable sites permitted by Rollyo, I focused on those producing current news in English and emphasized sites originating in countries with Muslim majorities or large minorities.

Now this may be a bit of hubris, but I think you will indeed easily find current and past news from the entire Islamic world by using this searchroll.  Use mainly English searchwords.  Especially use variants like Islam, Islamic, Islami, Islamiyah, Muslim and Moslem, since newspaper stylebook usages differ greatly.  Names of countries and ethnic groups also seem to yield good search results.  Remember that you can find all results for any search term in a particular source by clicking the name of that source in the searchroll source section.

We already have the Indonesian Press searchroll, so I have included only one additional Indonesian site (Antara) in the new searchroll.  Yet Islamic World Press can be very useful for seeing how events in Indonesia are, or are not, being covered well or at all in the rest of the Islamic world. Any issue under public discussion in Indonesia (say, Islamic law or the caliphate) or Islamic organizations of international scope (say, OIC or Hizb ut Tahrir), can also be fruitfully searched in Islamic World Press.

I have included one widely used Palestinian news site and one Israeli site, the liberal daily, Haaretz.  Since there are many sites dedicated to terrorism everywhere which can comprise a future searchroll, I have not included any of those here.  Nonetheless, you can still fruitfully use search terms like terror, terrorist, and terrorism in this new searchroll.

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