This guide is designed for researchers who need to find articles and primary sources on topics related to Middle East Studies.
Primary Source Archives
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969The British Government's Confidential Print documents cover a broad sweep of history from c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan.
- Central Asia, Persia & Afghanistan 1834-1922Explore British Foreign office files on Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan from the decline of the Silk Road in the first half of the nineteenth century to the establishment of Soviet rule over parts of the region in the early 1920s. Includes correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts and other materials.
- Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981Explore British Foreign office files on the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of all major Middle East powers 1971-1981. Covers the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution as well as the military interventions and peace negotiations carried out by regional and foreign powers like the United States and Russia. Materials include correspondence, annual reports, dispatches, personality profiles, political summaries, economic analyses, maps, newspaper cuttings, minutes of ministerial meetings, printed leaflets, extracts from books, booklets etc.
- Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019Search full text and digital archive of "The Times of London" newspaper for the years 1785-2019. View either a specific article or a complete page with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories.
Arabic Language and Arab world
- Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and LinguisticsCovers all aspects of the study of Arabic and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic). It is interdisciplinary in scope, and supports study and research in the fields of linguistics, Islamic studies, Arabic literature and also includes topics from interdisciplinary fields, such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and computer science..
- Arabic Collections OnlineArabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to more than 13,000 volumes across more than 7,800 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.
- KA Arabic e-LibraryA wide range of Arabic content ranging from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises.
- AlSharekh ArchivesOnline access to the content of 228 Arabic literary journals, from 23 Arab countries, dating from the early Arab renaissance (al Nahda) in the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twenty-first century.
- DFAJDFAJ is a directory of free online scholarly full text journals published in the Arab world. Included are journals covering all branches of human knowledge published by various scientific and academic bodies in 17 Arab countries. In Arabic, English, and French.
- Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian LiteratureExplore the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20th century. Explore Palestinian literature through timelines; networks of people, periodicals, and themes; visualizations; and audio interviews.
- Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine QuestionExplore thousands of events, biographies, highlights, places and primary documents, in an interactive platform entirely devoted to the Palestine Question.
- Jrayed – Arabic Newspaper Archive of Ottoman and Mandatory PalestineJrayed is a digital archive of Arabic newspapers and journals from 1908-1992, but primarily from late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. The titles include a wide variety of political, cultural, religious and economic viewpoints, and span dailies to quarterly periodicals. This archive is searchable by title and author name, and can be browsed by date, title, city and frequency.
- Researching PalestineDetailed research guide produced by UMass Amherst Libraries.
- Al-Nakba: 1948 Palestinian ExodusA guide was created in support of The Palestinian Oral History Archives Project at American University Beirut Libraries
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