The library is the center's main nerve as the natural base for conducting research and studies related to the Middle East, its issues, and its problems.
The library includes more than fourteen thousand books, including about eight thousand books in Arabic, and about six thousand books in various foreign languages.
The books deal with historical, economic, social, political, military, and media research and studies, and address various issues affecting the Middle East in particular, and global issues in general.
As for periodicals, in addition to the various Arab and foreign periodicals that are given to the center as a gift, the center participates in a number of important Arab and foreign periodicals.
The library includes a set of Arabic and foreign dictionaries in Arabic, English, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, and Urdu. There are also economic, social, political, geographical, diplomatic, and Ottoman dictionaries.
The library also includes a number of political, national, psychological, Jewish, Zionist, and Hebrew encyclopedias, encyclopedias related to human rights, modern and contemporary Egyptian history, modern and contemporary Arab history, European history, Islamic history, world history, and phosphate ores.
The library also has a group of foreign acquaintances such as British, American, African, Islamic, Jewish, Hebrew, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East, which were published in different years from 1928 until 1988.
Perhaps one of the most important contents of the center’s library is a set of master’s and doctoral theses that were approved by American and British universities in Palestine and Israel, covering the period between 1948 and 1973 (there are 58 theses).
The library also includes a different set of American documents related to American policy towards the countries of the Middle East, and it deals with the period between 1940 and 1980.
