Al Noor
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| title = Al Noor: The Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College
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| abbreviation = Al Noor
| discipline = Middle Eastern Studies
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| publisher = The Institute for Liberal Arts at Boston College
| country = United States
| history = 2008–present
| frequency = Biannual
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| ISSN = 1946-8342
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| LCCN = 2009200125
| OCLC = 302365432
| website = https://www.alnoorbc.org/
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Al Noor: The Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College is the undergraduate journal of Middle Eastern Studies at Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA). The journal publishes biannually, once in the Spring and once in the Fall, and features undergraduate students' original research, interviews, and photo essays. Al Noor is available in both online and print editions.
The journal claims a global audience. In addition to domestic readership, Al-Noor has distributed to more than a dozen foreign countries, including many in the Middle East.{{Cite web |date=2011-01-21 |title=Inward Journey: Student Formation at Boston College by Boston College - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/bcua/docs/ar_finalpdf |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}
Name
The name Al Noor means "the light" in Arabic,{{Cite web |title=The Heights — Journal Sheds Light on the Middle East |url=https://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=bcheights20080501.2.29&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=newspapers.bc.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Brooke Loughrin - Islamic Civilization and Societies - Boston College |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/sites/ics/about/program-news/student-news/brooke-loughrin.html |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.bc.edu}} and was chosen to convey the journal's ambition of "illuminat[ing] different sides of issues" and "shin[ing] a non-partisan and unbiased light" on topics in Middle Eastern studies.
The journal alternately goes by Al Noor or Al-Noor. Some sources use both the hyphenated and non-hyphenated names interchangeably within the same text.{{Cite web |title=Boston College News: Turmoil (and Hope?) in the Middle East |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/news-archive-2011-to-2015/chronicle/2011/news/middleeast021711.html |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.bc.edu}}
History
Al Noor began publishing in 2008.{{Cite web |title=World views - News - Boston College |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/campus-community/students/world-views.html |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.bc.edu}} Journal co-founder Christopher Maroshegyi hoped the publication would encourage more dynamic conversations about the Middle East, telling campus newspaper The Heights, "I thought it was essential to present the region as it is, in a new light, different from the Iraqi violence or al-Qaida terrorism which sadly paints a picture of the Middle East for most Americans."
Past issues are archived in hard copy at the Library of Congress{{Cite web |title=Al-noor : the Boston College undergraduate Middle Eastern and Islamic studies |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2009200125&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=catalog.loc.gov}} and made available on the journal's website.{{Cite web |title=View by Issue |url=https://www.bcalnoor.org/view-by-issue |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Al Noor: The Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College |language=en}} Al Noor first hosted a table at the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) conference in 2009, when the conference was held in Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2021, Al Noor was the only undergraduate research journal with yearly representation at MESA.{{Cite web |last=Admin |first=Web |date=2021-02-15 |title=UConn Middle East Studies: Spring 2021 Al Noor Call for Submissions |url=https://mideast.uconn.edu/2021/02/15/spring-2021-al-noor-call-for-submissions/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |language=en-US}} Al Noor has also attended multiple international research symposiums, including one in Doha, Qatar.{{Cite web |title=Hagop Toghramadjian - Islamic Civilization and Societies - Boston College |url=https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/sites/ics/about/program-news/student-news/hagop-toghramadjian.html |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.bc.edu}}
Brooke Loughrin, the United States' first-ever Youth Observer at the United Nations,{{Cite web |date=2012-09-21 |title=UNA-USA Announces First-Ever U.S. Youth Observer at the United Nations |url=https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/una-usa-announces-first-ever/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=unfoundation.org |language=en-US}} served as Al Noor
Al Noor has historically interviewed leading figures in government, journalism, and academia for inclusion in each publication. Past interviewees include Saudi royal and former Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud,{{Cite web |title=Interviews |url=https://www.bcalnoor.org/interviews |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=Al Noor: The Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College |language=en}} former ABC News Middle East correspondent Charles Glass, Syria expert Joshua Landis,{{Cite web |last=Joel |date=2016-10-05 |title=The Great Sorting Out: Al Noor Interviews Josh Landis |url=https://csi-usa.org/great-sorting-al-noor-interviews-josh-landis/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Christian Solidarity International |language=en-US}} and activist Sakena Yacoobi.{{Cite web |title=Boston College Chronicle, Volume 22, Number 12 — 8 May 2014 — Boston College Newspapers |url=https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcchronicle20140508-01.1.4& |access-date=2024-04-05 |website=newspapers.bc.edu}}
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Category:Middle Eastern studies journals
Category:Academic journals established in 2008