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Important Journals

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Jadaliyya an independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies Institute) that provides a unique source of insight and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship, and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States, the Arab world, and beyond. The site currently publishes posts both in Arabic and in English.

Shahadat monthly online series designed to provide a platform for experimentation and promotion of short form writing on the web. These stories, vignettes, reflections and chronicles, written by young or underexposed writers from the Middle East and North Africa, are published here in translation and the original.

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Journal of Arabic Literature -- search in George for print issues and link to GU's subscription to online version

see also these subjects in George: Arabic language -- Periodicals; Arabic literature -- Periodicals; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Arabic literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals

These journals do not come up when you search by subject in George:

al-ʻArabiyya : journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic = al-ʻArabīyah : majallat Rābiṭat Asātidhat al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah -- search George for print version of this journal

Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik = Journal of Arabic linguistics = Journal de linguistique arabe -- search in George for print issues and link to GU's subscription to online version

Articles

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
1973- .
Citations with non-evaluative abstracts to international scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, and communication. Provides enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International and bibliographic citations for book reviews. Particularly strong in applied and descriptive linguistics and in psycholinguistics.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to worldwide scholarly research in literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater, representing all national literatures. Does not include book reviews.

Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research
The Database of Arabic Literature in Western Research (DAL) is an easy-to-use, searchable, internet-based bibliographic database of Arabic literature in western research....provides easy access to detailed, annotated and content-enriched bibliographic records of books, articles, chapters of books and reviews written in English since the movement of translation and commentary of Arabic literary texts first began in the West. Based at Oxford University, England.

Index Islamicus
International classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Provides the reader with an effective overview of what has been published on a given subject in the field of Islamic Studies in its broadest sense. From ProQuest.
Academic Search Premier
1965- (varies).

Provides full text for publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
ProQuest Central
1980s- (varies). Provides indexing, abstracting, and many full-text entries for over 2,800 scholarly and general-interest periodicals. Covers a very broad range of topics and sources.
JSTOR
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.