Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969Issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, this collection includes the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices of Britain. Includes the Confidential Print for the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan. Beginning with the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the documents trace the events of the following 150 years, including the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez Western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.