This collection contains extensive spatial data, including hundreds of geo-referenced maps and shapefiles of tens of thousands of individual features drawn from a 1:25,000 scale set of Arabic and English maps of the country produced during the Interwar period.

The individual physical maps underlying this collection were sourced from a variety of libraries and digitized as high-resolution TIFF files. Each digitized map was geo-referenced and transformed to align with modern coordinate systems (WGS-84). Teams of research assistants systematically extracted the location and character of dozens of categories of map features, including houses of worship, government buildings, infrastructure, commercial enterprises, and agricultural properties into accompanying point and polygon shapefiles. This material provides an unprecedented, ground-level picture of Egypt during a time of historic change. This collection was generously supported through a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Libraries at contributing institutions providing map images and data in the collection include: Arthur Lakes Library - Colorado School of Mines, Australian War Memorial Library, British Library, Brigham Young University, Harvard College Library, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Library, Library of Congress, McGill University, Oxford, University of California-Los Angeles, and University of Iowa. For more information, please contact Steven Brooke in the Department of Political Science.