Middle East Primary Sources: Getting Started

• Egypt -- History -- Sources
• Islam -- History -- Sources
• Saudi Arabia -- History -- Sources
• Tunisia -- Demonstrations, 2010-
• Turkey -- History -- Sources

British Sources

• Chatham House Online Archive, Module 1&2, 1920-2008
• Confidential Print (British): Middle East (1812-1969)
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
• India Office Records and Private Papers, Qatar Digital Library
• Foreign Relations of the United States (US State Dept. Office of the Historian)
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West’s Response to Jewish Emigration
• Middle East Online. Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
• Middle East Online. Series 2: Iraq, 1914-1974

U.S. Sources

• Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Dept. Central Classified Files
• Democracy in Turkey, 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Dept. Classified Files
• Digital National Security Archive
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1949-1996
• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1861-1960 (U Wisconsin)
• U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid, 1950-1958
• U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009

United Nations

• United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 1946-
• United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1946-
• United Nations Official Documents System (ODS)
• World News Connection (for FBIS/JPRS), 2003-
• Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946-2005