This page highlights important items in the MEMP collection. It does not represent the complete MEMP holdings. For access to all of MEMPs holdings, please search the CRL Catalog.
Ahali Group Newspapers
The Ahali Group of Newspapers reflect the ideas, philosophy, and political activities of first the Ahali Group and later the National Democratic Party of Iraq. The political publications of the Group commenced in 1932 and continued intermittently, under various names, until 1963. The Chadirji Research Centre produced a set of 27 microfilm reels and an index to the collection. It contains collections of al-Ahali, Sawt al-Ahali, al-Mabdaa, al-Bayan, Sada al-Ahali, al-Mauatin, and al-Akhaa al-Watani. An article index is available on CD-ROM.
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Chaquèri Collection of Iranian Left-wing Materials 1960-1985
MEMP has filmed a portion of the Chaquèri Collection of Iranian left-wing materials produced by, or relating to, a number of groups opposing the regime of Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi (r. 1941-1979). The collection amounts to 1,100 items, and includes pamphlets and other ephemeral material. The items in the collection are cataloged individually and can be accessed here.
Catalog Record Guide
Library of Congress Arabic Pamphlet Collection,
Part I
This collection was filmed in the 1990s from material collected at the Library of Congress. Materials are in Arabic, English, French, German, and other languages. The collection contains pamphlets and other ephemeral materials from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
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Library of Congress Arabic Pamphlet Collection,
Part II
This collection of over 4,000 items was microfilmed on 89 reels by MEMP in 2009-2010. The materials were collected by Dr. George Atiyeh, former Head of the Near East Section of the Library of Congress from 1967 to 1996. The collection includes pamphlets, speeches, newsletters, and other ephemera from across the Middle East, published mostly 1960-1995. Many of the materials are in Arabic, but there are quite a number of items in English and French and also German, Spanish, Russian and other languages.
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Library of Congress Arabic Pamphlet Collection, Part III
This collection includes over 1,300 documents microfilmed on 55 reels by MEMP in 2019. Many of the items are from Egypt, Sudan and West Bank/Gaza, with additional materials from other countries. They were published in the late 1990s and 2000s, up until 2015. They deal with a wide variety of subjects such as politics, culture, laws, women, public health, environment, economics, and human rights. They also contain materials regarding different political parties, movements, and social and economic events. Many of the materials are in Arabic, but there are quite a number in English and French.
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Al-Samir
MEMP has filmed this newspaper from New York, which was once the largest Arabic daily publication in the United States. The newspaper contains news and articles concerning the Arab community in the United States along with international news. All of the editorials were written by Abu Madi, one of the founders of the "Pen League".
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Tangier Gazette
The newspaper was published under various names from 1884 through 1960 and exists in the British Library on a total of 23 reels. This newspaper, in English, is virtually the only continuously published newspaper source on Morocco from such an early date.
Al-Moghreb al-Aksa: Tangier chronicle and Morocco gazette. Jan. 2, 1897 - Feb. 3, 1923
Al-Moghreb al-Aksa: Tangier gazette. Feb. 10, 1923 - Jan. 22, 1927
Tangier gazette: al-Moghreb al-Aksa & Morocco. Jan. 29 ,1927 - May 14, 1932
Tangier gazette and Morocco mail. May 27, 1932 - May 28, 1940
Tangier gazette and al Mogh-reb al Aksa. May 17, 1949 - Dec. 28, 195
