New Database: Associated Press Collections Online: Middle East

From bureaus in Ankara, Beirut, and Jerusalem, Associated Press reporters and photographers captured the news of the Middle East. AP news stories and photos were relied on by newspapers around the world to accurately report events in Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, and the wider region.

AP Collections Online: Middle East includes wire reports, photographs, and internal communications from 1967 to 2005. Digitized from the print archives kept by Associated Press local bureaus, the collection provides not only contemporary reports of events, but a look “behind the story” into how the news was made with internal memos and communications.

Topics covered include the Six Day War and Yom Kippur Wars between Israel and Arab states, the Lebanese Civil War, the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 to Beirut, and perspectives on regional and global events such as Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. The collection includes 250 news photos.

This new AP collection complements the many newspaper archives already offered by the Library, including ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Access World News. For more information about the Library’s newspaper offerings, we encourage you to ask us.