Digital Collections
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window Confidential prints issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office since approximately 1820.
- e-Corpus e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.
- ProQuest History Vault: Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 This link opens in a new window Contains 3,500 World War II and Cold War era classified reports about Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa commissioned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the U.S. State Department and written by the days’ leading scholars. At the time, the reports helped to shape U.S. foreign policy decisions. Topics include the German war effort, occupation and division of Germany, reconstruction of Europe under the Marshall Plan, Soviet control of Eastern Europe, Palestine, African nationalism, Communist movements in South America and U.S. intervention in Central America.
- University of Southern California Digital Library This link opens in a new window Find drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and audio and video recordings in applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences
- Virtual archive of Yemeni manuscripts This link opens in a new window The private manuscript libraries of Yemen, estimated at 50,000 codices, constitutes the largest and most important set of unexamined Arabic manuscripts in the world today.
- Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online This link opens in a new window The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.
NGOs, IGOs, & Think Tanks
A brief, non-exhaustive list of organizations that contribute to Middle East Studies research. NGOs, IGOs, and Think Tanks often produce reports and other research which can be found on their websites.
- Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studiesa non-partisan and independent institute that provides policy-oriented research on matters of strategy, security and peace in the Middle East.
- Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and ResearchStudies contemporary issues and determining their implications for the United Arab Emirates, the Arab Gulf region, and the Middle East.
- Middle East InstituteFounded in 1946, the Middle East Institute is the oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East. Research and publications are organized by topic and country.
- RAND Center for Middle East Public PolicyThis website, from RAND, provides information and expertise on the Middle East as it relates to politics, social issues, economics, and technology.
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy"The mission of The Washington Institute is to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them."