Since its founding UNRWA has produced and collected an audiovisual archive, covering all aspects of the lives and history of Palestine refugees. This archive consists of more than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videocassettes. In 2009 the UNRWA Archive was inscribed by UNESCO in the Memory of The World list, recognizing its historical value. (From site)

"Covering such important events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict"

Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970—offers the widest range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.

Contains posters from the 1970's-present.

Political posters collected between the 1960s and the 1980s.These posters were collected from their original sources or from the American University of Beirut campus where they were posted. This collection covers two main topics:

The Palestinian Question
Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War