Israeli Left Archive

"The Israeli Left Archive is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement in Israel during the sixties, seventies and the eighties. It is in this period, immediately preceding the introduction of computer technologies, that the bulk of the Kaminer collection was gathered. They stopped collecting material towards the end of the eighties mainly due to the spread of computerized documentation throughout society and the left. From the early nineties, the preservation and the recovery of movement materials became a vastly simpler goal.

The basic categorization is based on the different groups active in the radical left: Women in Black - Shani - Reshet: Israel Women's Peace Net - Women and Peace - SIAH (Israeli New Left) - SHASI (Israel Socialist Left) - Committee for Solidarity with Birzeit University - Committee Against the War in Lebanon - Matzpen - Dai L'Kibbush - Campus - Yesh Gvul - 21st Year - Black Panthers (Israel) - Electoral Initiatives - Movement for Peace and Security - Left Zionists.
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This collection contains around 400 periodicals dating from the 60's to the 90's. The periodicals were published by some of the organizations in this archive (Matzpen and related organizations, Shasi, Siah, Women In Black and Left Zionist groups), but also by organizations that were not included (AKI and an Independent Socialist group) ."

 Israeli Left Archive is hosted by International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam.

King-Crane Commission Digital Archival Collection

King-Crane Commission Digital Archival Collection
Oberlin College Archives

"During the summer of 1919, a delegation under the leadership of Oberlin College President Henry Churchill King and Chicago businessman Charles R. Crane travelled to areas of the former Ottoman territories. Their mission was to determine the wishes of the people of the region as their future was being determined by the major powers at the Paris Peace Conference. The King-Crane Commission, as it became known, met delegations and invited written petitions from various religious and political groups. This digital collection unifies the archival records of Commission members for the first time. It also includes resources on conducting research in the collection.
To learn more about the collection, please read the full introduction to the King-Crane Commission digital collection."

Middle East Political Sites Project - Stanford University Library

Middle East Political Sites Project - Stanford University Library

Description

"The project intends to capture and archive the web sites by and about some of the more important political organizations and related NGOs from the countries of the Middle East."

Open Access Archives: Digital Persian Archive - Asnad.org

Digital Persian Archive - Asnad.org



"Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century -A Research Project of the Iranian Studies Division at the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.



"The Project aims at facilitating access to the growing number of available Persian historical deeds and documents, both published and unpublished. It shall allow work on archival material with the help of incorporated facsimiles without recourse to the original - often remote - place of publication or storage.

The Database includes "public" and "private" documents: royal decrees and orders, official correspondence, and shari'a court documents, such as contracts of sale and lease, vaqf deeds, marriage contracts, and court orders. It also serves as a bibliographic reference tool, being a continually updated repertoire of published historical documents."

Recent additions to the database:

0853/1449	Farman by Jahanshah Qara Quyunlu
0994/1585	Farman by Muhammad Khudabandah
1163/1749	Letter from Mustafa Khan to the Ottomans 3 of 3
1162/1748	Letter from Mustafa Khan to the Ottomans 2 of 3
1060/1650	Petition by the Armenian patriarch to Shah 'Abbas II
0630/1233	Farman concerning a village in the Ardabil region
1186/1772	Mubaya'ah of the Bagh-i Mirza Zahid in Tabriz
1156/1743	Contract of sale over land in Abivard
1351/1932	Contract of rent from Kashan
1356/1937	Marriage Contract from Kashan

Open Access Archives: National Archives of Egypt

National Archives of Egypt



"The site contains about one million records representing the metadata of all the files and a sample of documents in Arabic language and their images. The complete database can be accessed from Dar Elwathaeq...



The NAE keeps documents pertinent to the Egyptian history since the Fatimid Era till the present day. It also keeps documents about the history of Sudan, the Levant, and the Arab Peninsula in particular, as well as documents about the history of Crete, Turkey, The Maghreb, Iraq, Iran, Ethiopia, Eriteria, Somalia, Djibouti, Uganda, Kenya and the whole region at large."



Description and links to selected images to most important archival collections in the National Archives of Egypt