Documentation

In support of its research, the Moshe Dayan Center maintains outstanding collections of documentary materials. These are open to all bona fide researchers of any nationality.

The Press Archive

The Press Archive of the Moshe Dayan Center is the most comprehensive collection of contemporary (post-1950) Arabic press in the world, including over 5,000 distinct titles of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals. In many respects the collection is unique, and includes not only the established daily press of the Arab world, but also many rare, ephemeral, and clandestine publications. The Press Archive also has significant holdings of the Iranian press. The Center is publishing a series of comprehensive country catalogues of the collection.

For more information, please contact the Curator of the archive, Haim Gal, dayancen@post.tau.ac.il

The Library and Database

The Moshe Dayan Center’s Library serves researchers and students, and is distinguished by its rich collection of periodicals from and about the Middle East. In addition to the leading scholarly journals, it contains excellent runs of American, British, and Israeli radio monitoring reports for the Middle East, going back forty years. The Library also holds outstanding collections of economic materials, especially statistical yearbooks and bulletins of central banks.

The Library is open to the public five days a week, Sun-Thurs, from 8.30 am - 2.30 pm.

For more information on Library services and collections, please contact the Librarian, Marion Gliksberg, dayanlib@post.tau.ac.il, or marion@post.tau.ac.il

The Moshe Dayan Center also maintains a unique, searchable database of bibliographic references to Western and Arabic periodical literature, which includes over 100,000 entries dating from 1979 to the present.

The database is freely accessible to any researcher.  

For more information please contact the database co-ordinator, Dorit Paret, at dayanlib@post.tau.ac.il

Another valuable bibliographic tool is the Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East, published by the Center six times a year and hosted by MERIA.

Dayan Center Library Updates, published several times a month,  lists links to full-text reports, analyses and working papers, published by a variety of institutes. The material listed in the Updates is freely downloadable and does not require subscriptions or passwords.