Primary Sources - World History Digital Collections

UN documents from the British Mandate and the 1947 partition through later wars, occupation, and peace efforts.

Gathers key primary sources, including treaties, UN resolutions, agreements, and official statements, on the modern Middle East.

Links to digitized primary sources, including photographs, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, and online exhibitions.

Primary documents and key links on Israel and Palestine, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Iran, and the Kurds, including items like the Balfour Declaration, UN resolutions, and major speeches.

A searchable compilation of declassified documents and briefing books on US-Iraq relations, weapons programs, alleged war crimes, and the Gulf War, drawing on US and UK records released through FOIA.

Offers searchable texts, historical maps, and images that document Western travel to the Middle East, especially Egypt, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.