Items - Digital Archive of the Middle East

A Study on Women & the Family in Kuwait 1971

Documentation on women and families in Kuwait organised in tables and statistical format with subheadings.

Document depicting the aims, innerworkings and intentions of the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council.

al-Marʼah al-ʻUmānīyah : nashrah dawrīyah Vol.2:9 (August 1981)

Issue of 'al-Marʼah al-ʻUmānīyah : nashrah dawrīyah' [The Omani Woman'] Vol.2:9 (August 1981), a bulletin published by The Omani Women's Organisation. Includes reports on the 10th congress of the Arab Women's Union in Damascus, an article on dowries, and solidarity with women in Vietnam, Palestine and Lebanon

Apartheid in Iran leaflet

Single sheet leaflet entitled 'Apartheid in Iran', issued in 1989 by an unknown opposition group, that argues that 'by separating men from women as second class citizens', the Islamic Republic has created a form of apartheid comparable to that in South Africa

Documents of the General Union of the Women of Yemen

Documents of the General Union of the Women of Yemen: The First General Congress of the Yemeni Woman

A 54-page booklet containing a Study of the status of the Yemeni Woman, the programme of the General Union of the Women of Yemen, the Fundamental Order of the General Union of the Women of Yemen.

Educational Network, nos. 12 and 13 (June-September 1993)

Issue of a newsletter published in Ramallah with a special focus on female education in Palestine

Existence of Bahraini Women in Government

Iraqi Women during the Iran-Iraq War

Research presented to the seminar on 1-2 June 1981 on the social and civilizational dimensions of the Iran-Iraq War

Long Live International Solidarity for the Liberation of Iranian Women

Poster calling for the liberation of Iranian women, published in October 1986 by the Communist Party of Iran - The Committee Abroad, and criticising the treatment of women under the Islamic Republic.

Nisāʼ al-ʻArab, No. 20 (August 1986)

Issue No.20 (August 1986) of Nisāʼ al-ʻArab ['Arab Women'] published in Baghdad by al-Ittihād al-Nisāʼī al-ʻArabī al-ʻĀmm [General Arab Women's Union, or Federation.]

Nisāʼ al-ʻArab, No. 25 (June 1987)

Issue No. 25 (June 1987) of Nisāʼ al-ʻArab ['Arab Women'] published in Baghdad by al-Ittihād al-Nisāʼī al-ʻArabī al-ʻĀmm [General Arab Women's Union, or Federation.]

Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], January-February 1980

Issue of the Arabic-language journal Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], January-February 1980

Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], June-July 1979

Issue of the Arabic-language journal Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], June-July 1979

Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], March-April 1980

Issue of the Arabic-language journal Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], March-April 1980

Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], October-November 1978

Issue of the Arabic-language journal Nisāʼ al-Yaman [Women of Yemen], October-November 1978

Omani Women's Associations

An official book on women’s associations in Oman (1991)

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 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.'

Photograph of a young Arab girl

Photograph by the Zangaki brothers of an Arab girl in a chequered shirt and headscarf, holding a large pottery water jug, captioned 'No.779 Jeune fille arabe.' On the reverse, Frank Dean has written in pencil, 'Arab girl. Note name tattooed across the chest & large earthenware jug for water. When full, these jugs weight about 80 lbs & they carry them on their heads. Frank, Egypt, May 1913. (8)'

Photograph of an Arab girl in a patterned shirt

Photograph of an Arab girl in a patterned shirt with a bead necklace, headscarf and earrings.' On the reverse, Frank Dean has written in pencil, 'Arab girl. 2.'

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli)

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with other women by a car

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) and fellow students, taken in 1955

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with Ehmed Dilzar (leftist poet) and Qadir Reshid (MP)

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) with Nahîde Refîq Hilmî in 1955

Photograph of Samia Shaker (Samia Tschauschli) and friends, with their biology teacher Nahîde Refîq Hilmî in 1955