Gale Archives Unbound: Middle Eastern Studies

Documents of the U.S. Consulate in Aden, Yemen, pertaining to independence movements from British and Ottoman Turkish colonial occupation, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

U.S. diplomatic reports on Afghanistan in the context of the Soviet-American competition in the region during the Cold War, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Afghan War Diary reports of the British Army Headquarters in India on the conflict between the Emirate of Afghanistan and British and Indian forces, sourced from the British Library.

British Army documents from the India Office Military Department on the failed British campaign against Turkey for colonial control of Iraq during World War I, sourced from the British Library.

This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Jerusalem from the period of British colonial occupation of Palestine, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents, 1963-1967, dealing with conflict between Turkish Cypriot paramilitary formations and Greek Cypriot government forces, and the roles of the U.S., Turkey, the United Nations and NATO in the conflict, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Date Range: 1950-1959 This collection of State Department documents provides access to primary source materials on the political, economic and social development of Turkey during a period of democratization in the 1950s.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents, including dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Cairo, Port Said, and Alexandria, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, the U.S. National Archives.

This collection consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the American consular post in Beirut from the period of French colonial occupation of Lebanon, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Materials from 1981-1993 related to the planning and organization of the October 1991 Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, focused on U.S. role in the Israeli-Palestinian relations and in Middle Eastern affairs more generally, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Iran as well as British and Russian imperial ambitions in the region, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Iraq, British colonial occupation, and independence, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on the region and its Ottoman Turkish, British and French colonial occupation, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

Documents of the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers dealing with British colonial occupation of Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel, the Palestinian Naqba, and British foreign policy and diplomacy towards Israel and the Arab states, sourced from the UK National Archives.

Documents of the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office, and Cabinet Papers dealing with the British colonial occupation of Iraq and British foreign policy and diplomacy towards Iraq, Iran, and the Gulf countries, sourced from the UK National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents tracing the role of the United States in the creation of the state of Israel, in the Palestinian Naqba, and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its impact on the region, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives.

The Palestine Statehood Committee Records, 1939-1949, consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, advertisements, and clippings related to five committees active in the United States from 1939 to 1949: the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine, the Committee for an Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, the American League for a Free Palestine, and the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.

U.S. State Department Central Classified Files on Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the "Trucial Sheikhs" (future United Arab Emirates), and Yemen, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

Bush White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files and the Staff and Office Files, 1990-1991, on the United States military and diplomatic response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry reference files, evidence submitted to the committee, transcripts of hearings, reports, and papers of the Anglo-American Cabinet Committee on the situation of Jewish survivors in Europe and the problems connected with their resettlement in Palestine, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Saudi Arabia, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State, U.S. National Archives. This archive divides into two distinct parts: the first part, 1930-1944, documents the formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; the second part, 1955-1959, illustrates the U.S. view of the day-to-day workings of the Kingdom in the context of the Cold War.

Date Range: 1802-1949. U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic documents on Türkiye, including correspondences from U.S. Consults in Alexandretta, Ezerum, Harput, Siva, and Smyrna, sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State.

Digitized version of the Primary Source Media microfilm collection entitled Records of U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies, 1948-1961: U.S. Operations Mission in Iraq, 1950-1958, comprised of documents of the Point Four program in Iraq during the early Cold War period, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.

George H.W. Bush Presidential Records from a variety of White House offices dealing with the administration's policies on Israel and Palestine, sourced from the George H.W. Bush Library.

Correspondence files of the U.S. Operations Mission in Saudi Arabia during the early Cold War period, as well as the Subject Files of the office of the Director documenting the U.S. economic and technical assistance programs and security activities, sourced from the U.S. National Archives.