{"id":4005,"date":"2019-05-10T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"arabian-gulf-digital-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/05\/10\/arabian-gulf-digital-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabian Gulf Digital Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agda.ae%2Fen&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C906292ba47ec4b69be4b08d6d525ef25%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636930756238872393&amp;sdata=5FM1TZECGmPhlxCj%2FbRXkBwRiDlgC9XcVFoFjz5QhuA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">A collection<\/a> from\u00a0 the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and National Archives UK which has text and images on the political, social and cultural history of the region.\u00a0 It includes some online exhibitions. One is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agda.ae%2Fen%2Ffolder%2Foil-exploration-and-discovery&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C906292ba47ec4b69be4b08d6d525ef25%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636930756238882398&amp;sdata=xPvgwfNfhToh1Z%2FCgqsxvzKnsCcQZ3zGQBmsf3Xd7qo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">discovery of oil.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many materials are offered in Arabic it does have UK government materials on foreign relations and policy.\u00a0 For instance <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agda.ae%2Fen%2Fsearch%3Ff%255B0%255D%3Dsubjects%253AConflicts%2Fdisputes&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C906292ba47ec4b69be4b08d6d525ef25%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636930756238882398&amp;sdata=RgqmetqLx3c2x1QtbM7zcxOLueWIu5S1b3ZyF0MATB4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">browse the section on disputes.<\/a>\u00a0 It is possible to search or browse by subject, place, date.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qdl.qa%2Fen&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C906292ba47ec4b69be4b08d6d525ef25%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636930756238892407&amp;sdata=J8sxkRz2d6Q%2BLkGA7LmUvd6jtvT1e65xL0%2Fk%2FIdQbLY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">recently made available is the Quatar Digital Library<\/a> which also has collections on international relations and oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection from\u00a0 the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and National Archives UK which has text and images on the political, social and cultural history of the region.\u00a0 It includes some online exhibitions. One is on the discovery of oil. While many materials are offered in Arabic it does have UK government materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[238,68,535],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","tag-international-relations","tag-middle-east","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}