Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Al-Insan Al-Khaleeji 1
  Issue No.1 of 'Al-Insan Al-Khaleeji' (April 1986), a 12-page booklet in Arabic on human rights issues in Saudi Arabia. Includes news, a feature on Abdul Raouf Sheikh Hassan Al-Khunaizi who died under torture in 1961, a short story, cartoons and other short articles.
• Al-Insan Al-Khaleeji 2
  Issue No.2 of 'Al-Insan Al-Khaleeji' (June 1986), a 16-page magazine in Arabic on human rights issues in Saudi Arabia. Includes news reports, a petition addressed to Sheikh Isa bin Salman, Emir of Bahrain, a feature on activist Khaled Al-Nuhza who died under torture following his arrest in 1982, discussion of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and articles on women's rights.
• Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, 1969.
  46-page issue of the Annual Journal of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe, No. 13, (1969) edited by Dara Attar and containing articles by Lord Kilbracken, Taufiq Wahby and C.J. Edmonds.
• Arab Organisation for Human Rights Bulletin, no. 2 (August 1992)
  Issue 2 of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights Bulletin for August 1992. In Arabic.
• Bahrain
  A 26-page booklet on the nationalist workers struggle in Bahrain, comprising five short essays: Håkan Wiberg 'The International Importance of Bahrain', Raouf Ressaissi, 'The Struggle of the Working Class Continues', Azzam Khalaf, 'NUBS [The National Union of Bahraini Students] - a part of the national movement in Bahrain', 'A Bahraini Student Speaks' and 'Prisons of Bahrain' which includes a plan of the prisons at Al-Qala and on Jidda Island. There is also a photograph of workers at the Alba [Aluminium Bahrain] plant.
• Bahrain: Labour movement and the struggle for self-determination
  A 17-page booklet by Raouf Ressaissi on 'Bahrain: Labour movement and the struggle for self-determination', published in Malmö, Sweden, for the European Branch of the Defence Committee for Political Prisoners in Bahrain and the Gulf.
• East Jerusalem, Glory of the Past, Promise of the Future
  Comments on the Palestinian future and social welfare projects regarding the future of Jerusalem.
• Freedom of Religion and Conscience in Israel
  Document on Freedom of Religion and Conscience in Israel, an examination of the effect and implications for the human rights of enticement to change of religion law, 1977
• New Peshmerga: A Magazine of Kurdish Affairs and Studies, no. 22 (November 1990)
• Photograph with annotation: "a list of family members killed by gas in March 1988, shown on the wall of a house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec annotated: "a list of family members killed by gas in March 1988, shown on the wall of a house in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Man pointing to Arabic inscription on wall.
• Photograph with annotation: "a Barzani woman holding photos of her missing husband and sons in Qashtapa, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "a Barzani woman holding photos of her missing husband and son, in Qashtapa, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
• The Action Programme of the National Committee of the Omani Workers
  Programme of the National Committee of the Omani Workers, an organization based outside Oman due to the prohibition on trade unions that remained in place until 2006. The booklet is dedicated to two workers who were executed in Muscat on 20 June 1973
• The WFTU and the Struggle of the Arab Workers and Peoples (November 1974)
  28 page booklet on the WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) and the Struggle of the Arab Workers and Peoples, documenting trade union activities and social activism in countries including Iraq. Egypt, Palestine and Bahrain