A collection of primary source materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Includes conference proceedings, reports of international women's organizations, publications of women's non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of international women activists dating as far back as the middle nineteenth century.
Covered topics include war and peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, women's rights and gender inequality.
Letters, diaries, and other writings providing a feminist perspective on the Ottoman Empire, French colonial Africa, U.S. administration of the Philippines and Panama Canal Zone, and other modern imperial movements. Can be cross-searched with .Women and Social Movements International.
This collection contains selected historical news stories, cables, and other documents from 1967 to 2005 generated by the Associated Press news bureaus in Ankara, Beirut, and Jerusalem.
The documents include some AP photos, including the photo of the “Hope for Peace” statue in Yarze, Lebanon – a giant monolith of old tanks, field artillery, and concrete.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
Records kept by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem during 1920-1944, including both formal diplomatic correspondence and informal contact reports. Part of Archives Unbound.
Exceptionally well-known and respected series of British archival reprints. Britain's rich history with Middle Eastern countries via its East India Company trade routes up through the Persian Gulf & beyond is revealed in the 100+ individual titles on countries in the Middle Eastern collection. The Slavic & Balkan collection delivers a good introduction to the Balkan region, particularly concerning political & ethnic boundary issues.
Titles in the East/Southeast Asian collection deliver insight with historic political & economic reports. All volumes are entirely composed of primary source material, from the British Foreign Record Office & other official British archival repositories.
Records from the U.S. State Department's consular post in Beirut from 1920 to 1941, when Lebanon was part of the French Mandate of Syria-Lebanon. Part of Archives Unbound.
Records from the U.S. State Department on Morocco, during a time when the country transitioned from French protectorate to independent country under King Mohammed V. Part of Archives Unbound.
The Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection is an electronic archive of books published 1820-1914 from Egypt, Syria, and other regions of the Islamic World. The collection is comprised of over 2,500 titles in the humanities and the sciences.
Digitized archive of five newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa:
al-Akhbār (االخبار ,Lebanon, 2006-2019)
al-Dustūr (الدستور ,Jordan, 1967-2000)
al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية ,Egypt, 1962-1986)
al-Riyāḍ (الرياض ,Saudi Arabia, 1972-1996)
Filasṭīn (فلسطين ,Israel/Palestine, 1956-1967)
A collection of British policy papers, documents and marginalia from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers. Begins with early 20th century British interests in the Middle East, continues through the establishment of Israel and on to British diplomatic relations with Israel and the Arab States in the early 1970s. Part of Archives Unbound.
Iraq 1914-1974 offers a broad range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Includes major policy statements and other working documents as well as the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Part of Archives Unbound..
Known as MENALIB this is an"... information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies."
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and its wider regions. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualized explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic. The QDL results from a partnership between the British Library and the Qatar National Library to digitize a wide range of content from the British Library's collections relating to the history of Qatar and the Gulf region, Arabic culture, and the Islamic world.
Records from the George H.W. Bush administration about the Middle East peace process between Israel, Palestine, and related Arab states from 1989 to 1993. Part of Archives Unbound.
