Baker Institute Research: Middle East
Resources which support the research initiatives of Baker Institute
NYT Middle East News
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Mideast Mirror This link opens in a new windowNews and commentary digest of Arab, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew media, collected and edited by British journalists and editors.
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MideastWire This link opens in a new windowInternet-based news service that employs a team of translators around the region to gather important stories from and about the Middle East. Covers news from all 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora.
Finding Literature
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Carter Administration and Foreign Affairs This link opens in a new windowMemos, letters, and other documentation from the Carter administration and earlier (1972-1981) pertaining to foreign policy. Notable subjects include the Arab-Israeli Conflict; the Camp David Accords; China; Panama Canal treaties; Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT); the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and U.S. responses to the intervention; the Iran Hostage Crisis; human rights; among other topics.
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CIA's World Factbook This link opens in a new windowCountry information organized by country, region, or topic, published by the Central Intelligence Agency. Topics include communications, defense, economy, flag and map, geography, government, people and transportation.
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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowFormerly confidential correspondence, treaties, reports, and other documents produced by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices in the Middle East and northern Africa from 1839-1969.
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Congressional by ProQuest This link opens in a new windowView historical and current U.S. Congressional publications covering a range of issues, including U.S. relations with the Middle East, the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, the Afghanistan War, and more.
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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures This link opens in a new windowCurrent research in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
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Index Islamicus This link opens in a new windowInternational bibliography of publications in European languages on Islam and the Muslim world.
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Jerusalem Post (1932-2008) (The) This link opens in a new windowSearchable full-text issues of the English-language newspaper The Jerusalem Post from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, covering news from the Middle East.
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Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879–1919 (The) This link opens in a new windowPersonal papers from the collection of Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a British politician and diplomat involved in the partition of the Middle East and the division of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century.
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Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers This link opens in a new windowContent from newspapers published in the 19th-mid-20th centuries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new windowUS Intelligence on the Middle East "sheds light on the United States intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program (Brill)."
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