Find early works from important Arab writers in a variety of disciplines, from feminism and social theory, to the classics of literature, history, and the sciences. Includes works by the Four Imams of the Sunni Sect, the Al Azhar Modern Sheikhs, various authors of the Modern Arab Enlightenment, and rare works by the former Egyptian royal family.
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Find unique collection of documents related to Afghanistan history, culture, and its development. Most documents are in English or the principal languages of Pashto and Dari. Includes two newspapers: Anis and Kabul Times.
AMEEL is a Web-based portal and a digital collection of information for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development, and contemporary face. Within this portal, Yale University Library integrates existing scholarly digital content with newly digitized resources to make such materials easier to find and use efficiently and freely. Currently, AMEEL holds approximately 350,000 pages of full text, indexed and searchable in the language of publication including Arabic and Western scripts. The full text in AMEEL has been extracted using Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) rather than re-keying all works. Our digitization team aimed for accuracy rates of higher than 90% when converting modern Arabic text.
Find primary source materials (including letters, minutes, reports and maps) from the British National Archives, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through 1970.
Find materials sourced from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
This collection consists of the main British Government files on South Asia for the period between 1972 and 1980. The documents, from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, include diplomatic despatches, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, economic and military reports, statistical analyses, maps, photographs, minutes of meetings, and leaflets and other ephemera.
Find records from the George H W Bush Presidential Library, including letters of correspondence, memoranda, reports from Congress, and more, regarding American Middle East peace policy..