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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
World Map, kept in British Council office, Nigeria 1951
 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
Learning English at the British Institute at Mosul, Iraq
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
ELT students - Photographer Marcus Rose
 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
Young Skeikhs at the British Institute, Assiut, Egypt
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