Middle East & North Africa

Newly Cataloged Library Materials September-October 2022

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.

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.

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.

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.

Creating an Islamic Republic: Iranian Collections from the Hoover Library and Archives

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.

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