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Using the Web to Study Middle Eastern Newspapers and Activists Vickie Langohr College of the Holy Cross Understanding how political actors perceive their world seems essential to any analysis of politics but the wider the gap between these actors’ life experiences and culture and the scholar’s own the more difficult achieving this understanding can be. By training I am a comparativist specializing in Middle Eastern politics and it is in my Middle East politics class that I feel most
of Western citizens and governments in Middle East politics. English-language newspapers in the Arab world often differ from their Arabic-language counterparts in important ways; they often enjoy more freedom and experience less censorship than Arabic-language papers and in some (but not all) cases these newspapers’ news sections also adhere to higher standards of evidence than Arabic- language counterparts. While reading English-language newspapers and websites from the Middle East then brings up representational issues of its own I have found