Arabisch-islamisches biographisches Archiv: AIBA/Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive.
"Reproduces a one-alphabet cumulation of the most important biographical reference works on the Arab world published between 1858 and 1993. A separate name index provides identifying information to individuals contained in the works."
MF 1841. 450 fiche.

Iranian Oral History Project.
"Personal accounts [in Persian] of 126 individuals who played major roles in important political events and decisions in Iran from the 1920s to the 1970s or witnessed these events and decisions from close range."
MF565. 216 fiche.

Palestine, the British Mandate: A Collection of Sources from 1917-1940.
"This collection covers the principal memoranda, statements and reports published during the time of the British Mandate, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 until the end of the Mandate in 1948. The collection includes the white papers and reports relating to the Official Commissions sent to Palestine." [Bobcat]
MF1337. 378 fiche

Palestine, the Legal Background:
A Collection of sources published on microfiche from the Collection of Law in the Service of Man, Ramallah . The collection contains source material on the legal status of the Occupied Territories in Israel from period of the Ottoman empire, until the June 1967 war, when Israeli forces occupied the West Bank and Gaza strip.

1. Ottoman laws;
2. Laws issued in Palestine by the Mandate authorities;
3. Jordan;
4. Israeli laws and decrees.

MF1338. 1310 fiche.

Turkisches Biographisches Archiv / Turkish Biographical Archive.
The Turkish Biographical Archive (TBA) covers a period from the 11th century, the time of the Turkish settlement of Anatolia, to the present. Geographically the Archive covers the territory of the Turkish Republic as well as areas of the Near East, North Africa and the Balkans which used to be part of the Ottoman Empire. It contains articles on some 60,000 individuals of all social strata and occupational groups who had an influence on politics, the economy, religion, art and culture in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
MF 1430.

Confidential U. S. State Department Central Files: Egypt

• 1945-1949: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs.
  Film 1710, 6th floor. 19 reels.
  Guide: Ref6 DT107.82.C65 1987.
• 1955-1959: Foreign Affairs.
  Film 3674. 7 reels.
  Guide: Ref6 DT107.8275.C66 1989
• 1955-1959: Internal Affairs.
  Film 3675. 30 reels.
  Guide: Ref6 DT107.823.C66 1989

Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations of Turkey, Greece and the Balkan States, 1930-1939.
Film 2262, 6th floor. 11 reels.

VILAYET SALNAMES
Official yearbooks issued by the Ottoman central government, and provincial authorities appearing between 1263/1847 and the end of the Empire (1918).

• Salname-i Cebel-i Lubnan
  HOLDINGS: 1,6 (1886, 1892)
• Salname-i Nezaret-i hariciye
  HOLDINGS: 1-3 (1884-1885)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Bagdad
  HOLDINGS: (1892, 1897-1900,1907)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Basra
  HOLDINGS: 1,4 (1891,1900)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Beyrut
  HOLDINGS: (1882-1883, 1887-1888,1890, 1893-1894, 1896, 1900-1901, 1917)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Cebel-i Lubnan
  HOLDINGS: 1,6 (1886, 1892)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Diyarbekir
  HOLDINGS: (1869, 1883, 1885, 1891, 1894, 1898-1899, 1901, 1903, 1905)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Erzurum
  HOLDINGS: (1887, 1897)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Iskodra
  HOLDINGS: (1894)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Konya
  HOLDINGS: (1868, 1873-1878, 1881, 1885-1886, 1889, 1892, 1899, 1906)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Kosova
  HOLDINGS: (1883, 1893, 1896, 1900)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Manastir
  HOLDINGS: (1887/88)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Mosul
  HOLDINGS: (1891-1892, 1907)
• Salname-i vilayet-i Trabzon
  HOLDINGS: 1-
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Urfa
  HOLDINGS: (1927)
• Salname-i Vilayet-i Yanya
  HOLDINGS: (1890, 1901)