Middle East Topics in ARC

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Consider using the following lesson plan in a teaching unit that focuses on the Middle East or World War II.

The U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel
Visit Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans to find more lessons that contain documents from the holdings of the National Archives.
See our ARC Guide for Educators and Students for additional search hints and suggestions.

About the Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) contains primary source materials related to historical events and figures of the Middle East. This page provides search hints for NARA's online catalog, the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), to help researchers locate descriptions of archival materials available in NARA facilities and available online as digitized copies.

ARC ID 186439, President Bush addresses the Middle East Peace Conference at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, 10/30/1991

Featured Topics

The featured topics are a sample of subjects covered by records described in ARC. Follow the search instructions, or customize your search with your own keywords.

Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
Press the yellow Search button to go to the Basic search screen.
Enter keywords (use some of the sample keywords below or your own) in the Keywords box.
Select the limit results radio button for 2000.
(Optional step:) Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies to retrieve digitized documents and photographs.
Select the Location filter for All Locations.
Press the Go button.
When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

Topics	Sample ARC Keyword Searches	Sample Digitized Documents
Egypt	Egypt and Middle East%	President and Mrs. Nixon with Mr. and Mrs. Anwar Sadat at the site of the great pyramids at Giza, 06/12/1974, ARC ID 194581
Foreign Affairs in the Middle East	Foreign Affairs Subcommittee foreign affairs issues (foreign relations or foreign affairs or diplomatic) and (middle east or mideast)
Iran and Iran Hostage Crisis	Iran or Iranian (Iran or Carter) and (hostage or hostages or rescue mission) Iran - United Nations	The Shah of Iran and President Nixon, 10/21/1969, ARC ID 194301
Iraq	Iraq War or Gulf War Middle East country files Iraq or Iraqi
Israel and Palestine	Israel or Israeli Palestine or Palestinian The Holy Land Israel and Palestine and Conflict	Israeli children line the route of the Presidential motorcade to welcome President Nixon to Israel, 06/17/1974, ARC ID 194586
Kuwait	Kuwait or Kuwaiti Middle East country files Iraq War or Gulf War Southwest Asia or Persian Gulf
Peace and the Middle East	(Middle East or Mideast) and peace Middle East peace talks	President Bush meets with King Hussein of Jordan in the Oval Office, 03/12/1992, ARC ID 186446
Persian Gulf War	Operation Desert Storm Persian Gulf War
Saudi Arabia	Middle East and Saudi Arabia Arabian Peninsula	Arrival ceremony welcoming King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, 05/27/1971, ARC ID 194360