Items - Digital Archive of the Middle East

A letter from Mohamed Ali Ettaher, Editor of 'Ashoura' newspaper in Cairo, to Nabih al-Azmah regarding the proposed Arab Exhibition in Egypt.

A letter from Mohamed Ali Ettaher, Editor of 'Ashoura' newspaper in Cairo, to Nabih al-Azmah, dated 8/11/1934, suggesting that a company should be created for the third Arab Exhibition.

A statement on the current Arab stet of affairs, by the Sudanese Communist Party (1978)

A sixteen page booklet issued by the Sudanese Communist Party, entitled 'A statement on current Arab state of affairs', criticising Sadat's visit to Israel and the willingness of Egypt and the Arab world to make concessions to American demands, especially with regard to the Palestinians.

A U.S. Date Expedition in Egypt (1905)

Report of an expedition in February 1905 by American H.A. Rankin, from Fayum to the Siwa oasis in Northwest Egypt, for the purpose of buying date palm offshoots. Annotated by Atar David.

Address by President Gamal Abdel Nasser at the celebrations held by the Arab Socialist Union on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of Victory Day Port Said, December 23, 1968

Agrarian Reform and Land Reclamation in 11 Years, 1952-1963

Al-Nasiriyah No.24 (4 December 1982)

Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 4 December 1982

Al-Nasiriyah No.47 (4 June 1983)

Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 4 June 1983

Al-Nasiriyah No.69 (3 December 1983)

Issue of the independent, London-based weekly newspaper 'Annaseria/Al-Nasiriyah' for 3 December 1983

Almanac for the Year, 1929, Ministry of Finance, Government Press Publications Office, Egypt.

An Egyptian-Soviet Agreement about the Aswan Dam Construction (1959)

Seven-page document from the Soviet State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations, describing the provision of economic and technical assistance offered to the United Arab Republic in the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Translated and annotated by Elizabeth Bishop

Australians in Egypt in the First World War (1915-18)

A selection of texts documenting the experiences of Australian soldiers posted in Egypt during the First World War, including letters written by nurse Sister Anne Donnell , C.E.W. Bean's booklet 'What to Know in Egypt: A Guide for Australasian Soldiers' (1915) and Captain R. Hugh Knyvett's memoir '"Over There” With the Australians' (1918). Annotated by Duncan Beard

Black Power and Afrocentric American Solidarity with Egypt during the Long Sixties (1962/64/68/73)

A selection of texts showing how leading figures in the Black Power movement - Malcolm X (1925-65), Stokely Carmichael (1941-98) and Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977) - engaged with Egyptians between 1962 and 1973 on topics of African and racial identity. Annotated by Michael Fischbach

Bulletin of the Republic of Iraq (August 1964)

Development in Egypt. A Report on United States Economic Assistance (1978)

An illustrated brochure reporting on how US economic aid has benefited various development projects in Egypt

European Female Servants in Egypt at the Turn of the Century and their Ultimate Disgrace (1892)

Article on European Female Servants in Egypt, published in Cairo as “Per gli innocenti,” [For the Innocent Ones] in the Italian-language newspaper 'L’Imparziale' No. 62 (8-9 May 1892), translated, and annotated by Lucia Carminati.

Map of Egypt

Map of Egypt, based on an earlier map created by Carsten Niebuhr, printed in Volume One of 'Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785' (London, 1787) by Constantin-François Volney (1757-1820).

Mosque of Mohamed Ali, Cairo

Photograph by the Zangaki Brothers of the Mosque of Mohamed Ali in Cairo

Persecution of Akhwan al-Muslimoon : the story of oppression in Egypt (1966)

A booklet published in Pakistan in 1966, following the execution of Sayyid Qutb, discussing the history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the recent persecution of the Brothers by President Nasser

Photograph by Paul Dittrich showing the interior of the dome of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo.

Photograph by the Zangaki Brothers of the Citadel and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, Cairo, taken from the Mokattam hills.

Photograph of 'Cleopatra's Bath', Aswan

Photograph by J.P. Sebah of 'Cleopatra's Bath', Aswan. Captioned No. '892. Assouan. Bain de Cleopatre.' On the reverse, Frank Dean has written in pencil 'Assowan. Cleopatra's Bath.'

Photograph of a 'Turkish' woman smoking a hookah pipe

Posed studio photograph of a 'Turkish' woman smoking a hookah pipe, described as a 'shibouk' in a pencil note on the reverse written by Frank Dean.

Photograph of a group of fishermen with nets

Photograph by J.P. Sebah of a group of fishermen with nets standing at the edge of the Nile, captioned '922. Pêcheurs au filet.' Stuck to the back of EUL MS 466/36

Photograph of a Shadouf

Photograph by Paul Dittrich of a shadouf, or irrigation lift - for scooping water from an irrigation channel - in use, with a woman standing in the channel carrying a water vessel in her head. one man operating the shadouf, and a young boy standing at the edge. Frank Dean has written in pencil on the reverse, 'Chadouf, for raising water by hand for irrigation purposes', and has written the word out in Arabic on the front of the picture.

Photograph of a Sudanese woman

Photographic portrait by Paul Dittrich of a Sudanese woman [captioned 'Negresse Sudanaise'.] Frank Dean has written in pencil on the reverse, 'Soudanese Negress. Note tattooing on arms & beads around neck.'