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Middle East & North Africa

  • Overview

    • Overview

    The Middle East collection was formally established in 1948 with the appointment of its first curator, Dr. Christina Phelps Harris, and the acquisition of the libraries of James Heyworth-Dunne, Hidayet Dağdeviren, and Richard P. Mitchell. Building on this foundation, the collection now includes materials on political and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa, relations with the U.S. and Europe, education development, and military affairs.

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    Hiẓb al-Ba'th al-'Arabī al-Ishtirākī Records (Ba'ath Party Records)

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    History of the Middle East Collection

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    Afghan Serials Collection Online

    Explore the largest single collection of digitized publications from Afghanistan hosted by Hoover.

    Afghanistan Collections

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    Iran Collections

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    Haidar Hadi

    Curator for Middle East & North Africa Collections

    Haedar (Haidar) Hadi is the Middle East and North Africa Collections Curator at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, leveraging two decades of regional expertise and technical leadership. His firsthand experience with the region's complex landscapes ensures authen...

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    Baath Party Archives Return To Iraq, With The Secrets They Contain
    August 31, 2020 mentioning Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Editor, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    via The Wall Street Journal

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    Stanford News Features Hoover's Ba'ath Party Archives
    April 9, 2018

    via The Carillon

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    Mission to Baghdad

    Just as it might have done a hundred years ago, the Hoover Archives has rescued, protected, and restored a historical treasure. The beneficiaries include scholars, of course, but above all the…

    January 19, 2021 By Haidar Hadi , Rayan Ghazal , Erik Lunde , Jean McElwee Cannon

    via Hoover Digest

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    Hoover's Ba'ath Party Archives Featured in New Study of Islam and Insurgency in Iraq
    May 17, 2018

    via The Carillon

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    Hoover acquires Baath Party records
    February 27, 2008 with Richard Sousa

    via Stanford Daily

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    Newly Cataloged Library Materials September-October 2022

    November 10, 2022
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    Iraq Through The Lens Of A Silas Palmer Fellow

    Hoover Archives has received a collection of nearly five hundred photographs taken in Iraq during 2005–6 by Maciej Milczanowski, one of Hoover Library & Archives’ 2015 Silas Palmer Fellows.   Professor Milczanowski, who now directs the International Security Department of the University of Information, Technology, and Management in Rzeszów, Poland, was a captain with the Polish contingent of the Multinational Force Iraq.

    November 11, 2015
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    Digital Images from Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at Hoover Archives

    Born-digital photographs depicting US National Guard units deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and images of leaflets and flyers distributed in those countries, are available for research at the Hoover Archives.

    January 09, 2013
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    Libya: Italian Colonial Postcards from the 1920s to the 1940s

    The Hoover Institution Archives recently acquired several dozen vintage postcards depicting battle scenes, regimental colors, and other illustrations of military life related to the Italian colonization of the region that later became known as Libya, beginning in the aftermath of World War I and continuing until Italian forces were driven out of North Africa by the Allies during World War II.

    March 25, 2011
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    Hoover fellow discusses Ba’ath Party records on ABC News

    Richard Sousa, a senior associate director at the Hoover Institution and director of its library and archives, discusses the Institution’s archival collection of Ba’ath Party records on ABC 7 News. Sousa details the archival and historic value of the 12 million party documents housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. See related Stanford Magazine article.

    July 28, 2010
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    Creating an Islamic Republic: Iranian Collections from the Hoover Library and Archives

    October 01, 2003 STANFORD
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    Hoover Institution Archives Acquires Papers of Middle East Specialist and Award-winning Journalist John K. Cooley

    The papers of John K. Cooley, a veteran journalist who covered the Middle East and North Africa for the Christian Science Monitor and ABC News, have recently been acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.

    April 28, 2009
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    Saddam papers come to Bay Area

    Amid the chaos of the U.S. lead invasion of Iraq there was discovery. There are volumes of records found in the basement of the Baath Party's regional headquarters in Baghdad. Go to the story

    June 17, 2008
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