USMA Library Homepage: English and World Languages: Arabic

Resources for Arabic Language Study

Databases - English and Arabic

Press Reader - Provides thousands of newspapers every single day, extracting text and images and making articles instantly translatable, searchable, and easy to read on mobile devices. Coverage is typically the most recent 90 days.
Brill's Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics - Covers all aspects of the study of Arabic and dealing with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic), both synchronically and diachronically. Includes both the external and the internal history of the language, as well as the structural analysis of the different varieties of the language, the interaction between varieties in mixed levels (such as Middle Arabic), the linguistic contacts between Arabic and other languages, and the place of Arabic within larger language groups.
JSTOR - Provides access to scholarly journals and books in a wide range of disciplines (limited articles in Arabic).

**When looking for articles in Arabic, look for the filter or limiter link in the database

and narrow your search by language.**

Databases - English (for research about Arab-speaking nations)

DTIC - Citations to unclassified documents in DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, many with full text.
Janes - Source for information on defense, geopolitics, weapons systems, and security. Login with your westpoint.edu email address.
Policy File Index - Citations and abstracts, most with links to full text, for U.S. public policy research from over 350 think tanks, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.
Homeland Security Digital Library - Access to over 100,000 documents relating to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
MideastWire.com - This resource is an Internet-based news service established in 2005 in Beirut, Lebanon that employs a team of translators around the region to gather important stories from and about the Middle East. Currently covering news from all 22 Arab countries and the Arab media.

Generative AI Tools

Keenious - Keenious is a new type of academic search engine that recommends relevant research papers by analyzing your document with powerful artificial intelligence algorithms.
JSTOR's Interactive Research Tool - JSTOR's new Generative AI-powered interactive research tool can provide a new way to engage with content, find related sources, and explore additional avenues of inquiry.

Zotero

Guide to using Zotero, a citation tool for organizing citations and research.