| Description | Green folder labelled 'Oman Press Cuttings' and containing a thick bundle of cuttings, magazines and ephemera relating to Oman and the Dhofar conflict. These include an article in Arabic from 'Palestine Al-Thawra' (1975) entitled 'We are with you, O Oman revolutionaries!', an issue of The Black Dwarf Vol.14, No.31 (23 March 1970) in which Fred Halliday 'exposes Britain's Secret War', an issue of The Red Mole (International Marxist Group) Vol.2, No. 9 (15 May 1971) which has an 'interview with Comrade Saleh Nasser' on p.12, an issue of the Arabic bulletin Falastin Al-Moukafiha, cuttings from The Morning Star and various left-wing newspapers and periodicals such as Red Weekly and Liberation Struggle, articles from French magazines including Le Nouvel Observateur and Monde Diplomatique (with an article on Heiny Srour's film), an issue of The Rising Tide with a cover article 'Marxists Murder Dhofaris' (7 February 1974), a four-page leaflet in Arabic, 'Al-Mar'a' [The Woman] with an illustration of PFLOAG fighters, a special Oman issue of 'Africa' (27 November 1973), articles from MEED and Middle East International, a transcription from an interview with Australian mercenaries fighting against the PFLOAG (Australian Broadcasting Commission, 22 May 1975), a typescript 'Contribution by Omani Women in Social Life and Political Independence' presented in Berlin at the 1975 World Women's Congress, excerpts from Hansard documenting parliamentary debates on British involvement in Oman, a pictorial feature in Photo Temoin (March 1976) entitled 'Femmes d'Oman' with photos by Christian Freund, colour articles from The Observer magazine (6 June 1971) and The Sunday Times magazine(1 October 1972), articles and cuttings from SAS periodicals 'Mars and Minerva' and 'The Elite' on their fighting in Oman, an article on 'Oman, Land of Frankincense and Oil' in the National Geographic (February 1973), Gulf Committee Publication No.1 'Why is the Sultanate of Oman applying for membership of the UN? (October 1971), pencil notes on the execution of participants in the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca in December 1979, photocopies articles from The Peking Review on the struggle in Dhofar rebels, an article on Arab women by Linda Blandford from The Guardian, 'Between a camel and a Cadillac' (30 September 1976) and two information cards from 'Fiches du Monde Arabe' on Iran and the PFLOAG in Dhofar and Oman. |