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	HU OSA 350-4
Fonds 350:	Records of the International Monitor Institute
Subfonds 4:	Middle East

Date(s) 1980-2002

Extent and medium

216 Beta SP, 6 linear meters
2 VHS, 0.05 linear meters

Name of creator(s) International Monitor Institute (IMI)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

International Monitor Institute, Los Angeles, USA

Scope and content

The Middle East collection contains 218 raw and edited videos, including amateur footage, documentaries, event recordings, home movies, live broadcast, media briefings, news reports, oral history interviews, talk shows, testimonies, and war reports, documenting the political and social turmoil in the Middle East from 1980 till 2002.

The collection covers extensively the Persian Gulf War (the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops, the U.N.-authorized war waged against Iraq, the liberation of Kuwait) and the situation of the Kurds in the 1980s and 1990s (Iran–Iraq War, Al-Anfal Campaign, Kurdish uprising, Kurdish exodus). A significant part of the collection consists of news reports and television broadcast by US, UK and Canadian media (ABC, CBS, CBC, CNN, NBC, PBS), as well as a large number of documentaries. To a lesser degree, the collection touches upon issues that emerged in post-Soviet Afghanistan, the situation of the Palestinians since 1948, the consequences of the Arab-Israeli war, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Lebanese civil war, and the political situation in Turkey.

The collection includes rare recordings of the genocide committed against the Iraqi Kurds, as well as well-documented reports about Saddam Hussein’s regime, testimonies of victims of torture, and Iraqi state television propaganda. It also features important footage recorded with hidden cameras documenting abuses, torture, and executions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 350-4-1 Afghanistan, 1999-2001
• HU OSA 350-4-2 Iran, 1980-1999
• HU OSA 350-4-3 Iraq, 1980-2001
• HU OSA 350-4-4 Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories, 1948-2002
• HU OSA 350-4-5 Lebanon, 1983-1998
• HU OSA 350-4-6 Turkey, 1992-1998
• HU OSA 350-4-7 Other, 1990-2001

Conditions governing access Open to public.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by creators/producers (no rights are held by OSA at CEU).

Language/scripts of material

(No dialogue), (silent), Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Danish, Dari, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Footage recorded on Beta Sp NTSC/PAL tapes.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 378 Monitoring of the Iraqi and Kurdish Television, 2003
• HU OSA 392 Video recordings of WITNESS, 1996-2004

Note

Keywords:
• Afghanistan, Canada, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

• al-Qaeda, Beirut, Cukurca, Dohuk, Halabja, Jerusalem, Kirkuk, Kurds, Marsh Arabs, Mujahideen, Peshmerga, PDK, PKK, PUK, Sulaymaniyah, Taliban

• Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Jalal Talabani, Massoud Barzani

• Al-Anfal campaign, Gulf War, Iran-Iraq War, Intifada, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Provide Comfort

• bodies, bones and remains, bombing, chemical attack, dictator, exodus, extrajudicial executions, genocide, guerrilla, human rights, humanitarian aid, inhuman treatment, mass graves, massacres, occupation, oil, persecution, poison gas, prisons, refugees, refugee camps, sanctions, terrorism, torture, uprising.

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Anna Kövecsi and Alexandra Lăzău-Ratz in December 2010 – January 2011. Revised by Anna Kövecsi and Csaba Szilágyi in May 2011.
Online version updated 19 April 2012