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The Middle East Resources guide provides information on Middle East studies and Islam. Covers HI108/HI158, HI339, and HI349.

Resources

Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 This link opens in a new window
Discover primary source documents from the British National Archives that chronicle the history of the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some of the topics covered include the British capture of Jerusalem, the milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on British policy leading to the Partition of 1948, Jewish terror groups, the background to the establishment of the State of Israel as a Jewish national home, the Border wars of the 1950s, formation of the United Arab Republic, the Cold War in the Middle East and Black September.
Archives Direct: Confidential Print- Middle East This link opens in a new window
Contains British Foreign and Colonial Office documents concerning the Middle East between c. 1820 and 1970. Resources in this collection range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.
Archives Direct: The Nixon years, 1969-1974 This link opens in a new window
The collection provides, from a British perspective, an overview of the Nixon presidency, its international impact, and the Watergate scandal. Top-level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers dominate these papers. There is also a wealth of material on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and the environment.
Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
This collection consists of over 300 volumes from the Cambridge Histories series. The volumes are grouped by specific subject areas, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical topics.

Encyclopaedia Iranica This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures.
Brill's Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of Arabic and dealing with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic), both synchronically and diachronically. Includes both the external and the internal history of the language, as well as the structural analysis of the different varieties of the language, the interaction between varieties in mixed levels (such as Middle Arabic), the linguistic contacts between Arabic and other languages, and the place of Arabic within larger language groups.
Iraq, 1914-1974 This link opens in a new window
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.
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