COMPUTING

MIDDLE EAST SEARCH ENGINES AND WEB DIRECTORIES
Search engines dedicated to a specific country may be found on that country's page, under "Other Resources"

• 1001 Sites.com
• Arabist
• ArabNet
• ArabicSeek
• Arab World Online
• Arabia Online
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient
• Islamic Nations and their Neighbors' WWW Sites
• Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide
• Middle East Internet Pages
• Middle Eastern and Arab Resources
• Middle East Virtual Library -- at Columbia University
• Al-Murshid -- links to Arabic and Arab-related Middle Eastern Sites
• Naseej -- Arab and Arab-related search engine
• Yahoo Middle East
• Zorona -- Arab / Middle East information portal, including search engine, news, e-mail, chat, etc.

SOFTWARE AND INTERNET DEVELOPMENTS

• Amr's Arabic Software Archive
• Apple Middle East, Israel, Turkey
• The Arabic Macintosh -- from the University of Bergen, an invaluable resource for Mac users who need to use Arabic (and also Persian and Hebrew).
• Arabic Software Map (I. Ishaq)
• Association of Persian Logic, language and Computing (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• DITnet - comprehensive computing industry site from Dubai
• Human Rights Watch: The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa
• Informatics Society of Iran
• Internet Al Alam Al Arabi Magazine
• Microsoft Middle East (Arabic language software) -- site is in English, Israel (Hebrew language software), and Turkey
• PC Magazine Arabic
• PC Magazine Near and Middle East -- in English
• Sakhr Software -- also in English with U.S. Mirror.
• Web Persian/Arabic/English Web Browser -PMosaic (Global Publication Group)