
This page hosts historical documents from multi-site archival research for Politicians at Arms, which relied on the review of memoirs, private papers, and party manifestos from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon; consular and intelligence reports from the Middle East division of the British Foreign Office, which I viewed at The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom in London; and reports from Le Centre des Archives Diplomatiques in Nantes, France (coming soon).
Some Foreign Office documents are in French or Arabic, but most are in English. Click on the file number below the date to view the document. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Below the Foreign Office files are links associated with only a handful of the Arabic language memoirs and private papers used in my research (more are coming soon). Due to copyright laws, you must click the link and request from me specific pages to view from non-downloadable files. I plan to construct a database of all the memoirs that I have used in the study, so that other researchers can at least see which individuals from the study have produced memoirs/papers. The data will be hosted on my Middle East Memoirs Project, which is still in its infancy.
British Foreign Office
Iraq
1936
FO 406/74
1937
FO 406/75
1938
FO 406/76
1939
FO 406/77
1940
FO 406/78
1941
FO 406/79
1952
FO 481/6
1958
DO 35/10062
FO 371/133139
FO 371/134125
FO 371/134130
FO 371/134203
FO 371/134262
PREM 11/2368
PREM 11/2373
1959
FO 481/13
1963
FO 371/2719
FO 371/170428
FO 371/170429
FO 371/170430
FO 371/170431
FO 371/170432
FO 371/170433
FO 371/170434(1)
FO 371/170434(2)
FO 371/170435
FO 371/170436
FO 371/170437
FO 371/170438
FO 371/170439
FO 371/170440
FO 371/170441
FO 371/170442
FO 371/170443
1968
FCO 17/407
FCO 17/418
1970
FCO 17/1240
Syria
1949
FO 371/75542
FO 371/75543
FO 371/75544
1951
FO 371/91842
FO 371/91843
FO 371/91844
FO 371/91845
FO 371/98916
1952
FO 501/6
1954
FO 501/8
1957
FO 371/128223
1963
CAB 128/37
FO 370/2718
FO 370/2719
FO 370/2720
FO 371/170595
FO 371/170596
FO 371/170597
FO 371/170598
FO 371/170599
FO 371/170600
FO 371/170601
FO 371/170603
1970
FCO 17/1351
Participant Testimony
Iraq
Taha Hashimi
Mudhakarat Taha al-Hashimi
Falih Hanzal
Asrar maqtal al-a'ila al-malika fi al-Iraq
Tawfiq Suweidi
Mudhakarati
Khairullah Tulfah
Al-‘Iraq fi sitt sanawat
Syria
Michel Aflaq
Hizb al-Inqilab
Al-Ba'th al-'arabi huwwa al-inqilab
Khaled al-Azm
Mudhakarat Khaled al-Azm
Ma'ruf Dawalibi
Mudhakarat al-doktor Ma'aruf Dawalibi
Muhsen Barazi
Mudhakarat Muhsen al-Barazi
Akram al-Hawrani
Mudhakarat
Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi
Shahid 'ala al-'asr (parts 1-8)
Mohammed Omran
Tajribati fi al-Thawra
Khaled Bakdash
Hayah Hafilah bin-Nidal fi Sabil al-Tahrir al-Watani wad-Dimuqratiyyah wal-ishtirakiyyah
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