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Qatar Resource Centre, 2002

Middle East & North Africa The Middle East has been an important priority area for our work from the 1930s onwards.  Find out more about our work in this region, and when we opened in each country, on this page. When did we open in…? Find out when we opened in each country in the region, from Algeria to Yemen Iraq in the 1940s Our work in Iraq dates back to our earliest years, and we set up a British Institute in Baghdad in 1940.  Work was temporarily disrupted in 1941.  Read our report of these events Jordan Read about our work in Jordan from the evacuation of the Representative in Palestine in 1948 to 1983, by one of our Jordanian members of staff After Suez The Suez Crisis of 1956 caused disruption of our work in Egypt, and more widely in the Middle East.  Read an account of what happened in Egypt, by one of the people concerned Americas Asia Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Europe Sub-Saharan Africa

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