CRL holds extensive runs of newspapers from the Middle East, encluding Arabic, English, and French resoruces. Examples of major series include:

• Ahrām (Alexandria,Egypt) 1880-2010
• Egyptian gazette 1930-98
• Ittilaat (Tehran, Iran)  1926-2010
• Baghdad Observer  1964-1992
• Ha-Arets (Tel Aviv, Israel)  1964-75, 1987
• Palestine Post / Jerusalem Post  1932-2010
• Dustūr (Amman, Jordan)   1967-2000
• Nahār (Beirut, Lebanon)   1962-2002
• Riyạ̄d (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) 1972-1994
• Tishrīn (Damascus, Syria) 1987-2002
• Cumhuriyet (Istanbul, Turkey) 1925-2002

• CRL also holds a variety of press digests, as well as a complete run of reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service for the period 1941-1995. This includes Middle Eastern coverage as part of the Daily Reports (1941-74) and subsections for Middle East & North Africa (1974-80), Middle East & Africa (1980-87), and Near East & South Asia (1987-95). See the News Topic Guide for more details.