Country: Lebanon
Collection Type: LibraryUniversity
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-19001900-19301930-19601960-1980Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White imagesColour imagesDigital filesFilm-based negativesGlass plates positives and/or negativesPrints
Website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/main/academics/libraries/Pages/index.aspx

The University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) Department at the Libraries of the American University of Beirut (AUB) aims to collect, organize, preserve and provide access to the University’s archives, as well as to primary and unique historical resources that document the history and culture of AUB, Lebanon and the region at large. The Archives and Special Collections contain 700 linear feet of archival material (including papers of famous Lebanese and Arab intellectuals); 1,400 manuscripts; 9,000 volumes of AUB theses and dissertations; 5,000 posters; 1,900 maps; and 50,000 photographs. The collections are developed and enriched on an ongoing basis to support the academic and research programs of the AUB.

The AUB Archives and Special Collections’ photograph collections cover the late 19th to the 21st centuries and include many formats (negatives, glass plates, cabinet cards, albumen, black and white silver, colored, etc.). The collections include a number of significant holdings: the Moore Collection (106 black and white photos of AUB campus, Lebanon and the region taken between 1892 and 1915); the Blatchford Collection (801 photographs of the Middle East, Europe and North Africa between. 1880 to 1900); an Egyptian Theatre Collection (477 photos Black and white photographs in 20 albums that cover History of Egyptian Cinema from early to mid-twentieth century); the Richard Finnie Photo Collection (52 black and white photographs of Lebanese towns and cities during the 1950s); the Manoug Photo Collection (around 464 black and white photos of Lebanon covering the years 1940 to 1990); the Kanafani Photo Collection (228 black and white as well as colored photos covering crafts and folklore in the Middle East, 1982, 1998), in addition to an extensive photo collection documenting AUB’s various academic and extra-curricular activities since its founding in 1866.

Contact Details:
Name: Kaoukab Chebaro/Head; Samar Mikati/Archives Librarian
Email: ; mailto:[email protected]; [email protected]
Address: Ras Beirut, Bliss Street, Beirut Lebanon
Tel: +961 (0)1 350000; ext: 2610/ 2635

Country: Bahrain
Collection Type: State agency/ Ministry
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Prints
Website: www.bapco.net
Finding Aid: website
Established in 1929, Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) was the first company to have a camera in the country. Thus, BAPCO hold an archive of over 20,000 photographs (negatives and contact sheets) and films dating back to the 1930s covering all the fields of public life in Bahrain.

Contact Details:
Name: Reem Ebrahim, Collection representative
Email: [email protected] ;

[email protected]
Address: +974 17757677
Tel: PO Box 25555, Awali, Kingdom of Bahrain

Other:
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bapcopage/albums/with/72157626942467753
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExXIu5TgBw ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h77r20HwHc

Country: Tunisia
Collection Type: Private collection
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints
Beit el Bennani’s main aim is to safeguard the cultural heritage of Tunisia, its manuscripts and photographs.

The collection began in 1997 following the visit of a lady carrying her father’s, Mohamed el Bennani’s archive documenting Tunisia. Mohamed el Bennani, initially collected books and engravings and developed a growing interest for photography. 90% of the collection documents the history of Tunisia, and goes back to the years 1878-1957 (prior to the country’s independence). The collection includes glass-plates, and original material from international photographers such as Guarriges (1881), Albert a Bizerte (1895) and Lehnert and Landrock (1909). It also includes photographs from local tunisian photographers such as the private collection of Mostafa Bouchoucha (8,000 negatives dating 1932-1967) deposited by his daughter, and some photograph collection from the archive of the Tunisian National Library.

The entire collection is entirely digitized and catalogued by theme and name of photographer.

Contact Details:
Name: Mohammed Bennani, Owner
Email: [email protected]
Address: 11 bis, boulevard Bab Menara, Tunis 1008. Tunisie
Tel: Fixe : 00216 71 564546 Mobile : 00216 98 243799

Other:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Beit-el-Bennani-520104428117976/

Digital library for International Research: http://www.dlir.org/about-bouchoucha.html

Country: Morocco
Collection Type: Library
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1900-19301930-19601960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints
Website: http://www.minculture.gov.ma/fr/index.php?option=com_content&id=120%3Ala-bibliotheque-generale-et-archives-de-tetouan&Itemid=125
The Bibliothèque Générale et Archives de Tétouan aims to provide historical resources to researchers.

The photograph collection is a heritage from the photograph library of the Spanish Protectorate, which lasted between 1912 and 1956 and covered the North of Morocco. It covers a wide variety of themes related to the different facets of Moroccan livelihood, whether culturally, socially, economically, architecturally, historically, and also related to public health and administration. In addition, the archive covers portraits of Moroccan and Spanish personalities that have marked the history of Morocco and Spain’s ties under the Spanish Protectorate.
The collection is available to researchers.

Contact Details:
Name: Ahmed Teimi
Email: [email protected]
Address: 32 avenue Mohamed V, Tetouan, Morocco
Tel: 0539963258

Country: Jordan
Collection Type: Research center
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Prints
Website: http://cbrl.org.uk/british-Institute-amman

The British Institute in Amman (BIA) is an independent research organization in Jordan. The BIA works to build academic cooperation between British and local universities and other organizations engaged in research; organizes events including conferences, workshops, public lectures and seminars; provides facilities for researchers including a library, study space, guest accommodation, equipment, and fieldwork vehicles; and offers Arabic language training in cooperation with the Qasid Language Institute.

The institute’s origins are as an archaeological field station of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, which became an independent institute in 1978.
The core of the collection derives from the archive of the institute’s founder, Crystal-M Bennett (1918-1987) and dates from her years active in the field, principally the 1960s to early 1980s. The Institute also possesses numerous photographs donated by associated researchers. The collection includes around 15,000 photographs, which depicts themes of archaeology and heritage as well as ethnography.

Contact Details:
Name: Carol Palmer (Director) and Rudaina Momani (Librarian)
Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
Address: 102 Uhod Street Tla’ Al-Ali Amman, Jordan
Tel: .+ 962 6 534 1317

Country: Egypt
Collection Type: Public/ National Archive Research center
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Digital files
Website: http://www.cultnat.org

The Photographic Memory of Egypt (PME) program at the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) is focused on the documentation and preservation of Egypt’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage through photography.
The PME program’s primary activity is to digitize and document photographic collections of photographers as well as important institutional and private collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth-century. These digital collections gathered from local and international sources currently contain 20,000 images and continue to expand. They are to be made available for researchers and to the public through an online database.
The collection ranges from photojournalism and the archives of key photographers practicing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to Orientalist photographs produced by photographic teams and studios operating in Egypt between 1880 and 1930, to vernacular images produced by local families documenting alternative social histories of Egyptian society from the 1920s to 1960s, to documentary photographs of key events in Egypt’s history as a nation.
The program is also engaged in a survey of photographic collections concerning Egypt and the development of a comprehensive timeline for the history of photographic practice in Egypt.
Publications based on the CULTNAT historic photograph collection include: Egypt 1920: The Photographs of Lehnert & Landrock (2006, CDRom); and Nubia Through Two Eras – The photographs of Antoune Albert (2008).

Contact Details:
www.cultnat.orgCULTNAT – Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural HeritageBibliotheca AlexandrinaKm 28 Cairo-Alexandria desert roadSmart Village, Giza, Egypt+20-3545-322

Other:
Online database to be announced

Country: Tunisia
Collection Type: Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Digital files Prints
Website: http://www.cdn.nat.tn/

The Centre de Documentation Nationale (CDN) (National Documentation Center) is a governmental agency, and enjoys administrative and financial autonomy. The CDN holds a collection of around 10,000 black and white photographs, which are mostly copies taken from Tunis Africa Press Agency. These photographs document national and historial events during the 20th century, with various subjects such as Tunisia in the 20th century, the Husainid Dynasty, transportation and modernity, monuments and historical sites. The photograph library is open to the general public and is mostly consulted by researchers, journalists and historians. The collection is partly catalogued and digitized, and available on the CDN’s online database.

Contact Details:
Name: Mounir Alhaji, Director ; Kaouther Dridi, Collection representative
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +216704020; +216704002; +216704960
Address: Boulevard Mohamed Albouazizi – El Menzah 1004 – B.P 603 Ariana 2080 – Tunis

Country: Libya
Collection Type: State agency/ Ministry
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints Slides (positives)

The Department of Antiquities tasks include the protection, raising awareness, and scientific research regarding all archaeological finds, movable and unmovable.

The photo archive in the Red Castle (Saraya Alhamra) in Tripoli belongs to the Department of Antiquities (DOA) and is the main custodian of Archaeology in Libya.It was first created by the Italian colonial power in the beginning of the 20th century (1912-1941) and the occupation of Libya, the occupation was accompanied by extensive archaeological activity which continued throughout the occupation period. The archive has grown in size following Libya’s independence, which witnessed an increase in archeological activity and discoveries in the 50s up to the 1990s.

The collection contains a broad spectrum of photographic material; including glass plate negatives, black and white photos, in addition to negatives and projector positives of different sizes, covering a period of more than half a century.The images depict a wide range of subjects including: excavation work, from the early excavations of the Italian era, 1920s and 1930s, to the excavations of the modern era in the 80s and 90s, daily life, traditions and historical figures.

The collection is available to researchers and students.

Contact Details: Name: Mahmoud Khalifa Hadia
Email: [email protected]
Address: The Saraya Alhamra (Red castle) , Martyr Square, Tripoli, Libya.
Tel: (218) 3330289 / (218) 21 444 0167