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Modern Middle East Reading List
Fouad Ajami. The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967. New York: Cambridge, 1981. ___. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. Tariq Ali. The Clash of Fundamentisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. New York: Verso, 2002. Karen Armstrong. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World. New York: Anchor Books, 1988. ___. Islam: A Short History. New York: Random House, 2002. Paul Aussaresses. The Battle of the Casbah. New York: Enigma Books, 2002. Benjamin R. Barber. Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorisms Challenge to Democracy. New York: Ballatine Books, 1995. Jack Beeching. The Galleys at Lepanto. New York: Scribners, 1982. Peter L. Bergen. Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. New York: Free Press, 2001. Nicholas Bethell. The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle for the Holy Land, 1935-48. New York: Putnam, 1979. James A. Bill. Musaddiq, Iranian Nationalism, and Oil. Austin: University of Texas, 1988. Wolf Blitzer. Territory of Lies The Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie. Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden. New York: Thunder Month/Nation Books Press, 2002. Geraldine Brooks. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women. New York: Anchor, 1995. Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. Avner Cohen. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Larry Collins and Doninque Lapierre. O Jerusalem! New York: Avon, 1972. Youssef M. Choueiri. Arab Nationalism: A History. New York: Blackwell, 2000. Shahram Chubin and Charles Tripp. Iran and Iraq at War. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988. John K. Cooley. Payback: America's Long War In The Middle East. New York: Brassey's, 1991. Chester Cooper. The Lion's Last Roar: Suez, 1956. New York: Haper & Row, 1978. Martin Van Creveld. The Sword of Gideon: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force. Washington: Public Affairs, 2002. Moshe Dayan. Diary of The Sinai Campaign. New York: Schocken, 1967. David Dereksen. The Crescent and The Cross. New York: Putnam's, 1964. Tahar Djaout. The Last Summer of Reason. St. Paul, MN: Ruminator Books, 2001. Charles M. Doughty. Travels in Arabia Deserta. New York: Doubleday, 1955. Trevor N. Dupuy. How To Defeat Saddam Hussein. New York: Warner, 1991. . Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars. New York: Hero Books, 1984. Abba Eban. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1977. John L. Esposito. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. New York: Oxford, 2002. ___. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 1997. Byron Farwell. Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. New York: Viking Press, 1988. Robert Fisk. Pity The Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. William H. Forbis. Fall of the Peacock Throne: the Story of Iran. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Thomas L. Friedman. From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: Anchor, 1989. ___. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Anchor, 2000. ___. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002. David Fromkin. The Peace To End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1989. Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal. Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Andre Gerolymatos. The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Jason Goodwin. Lord of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Henry Holt, 1998. Gershom Gorenberg. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggles for the Temple Mount. New York: Oxford, 2000. Robert Graham. Iran: The Illusion of Power. New York: St. Martin's, 1979. Anton La Guardia. War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. Seymour M. Hersh. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. New York: Random House, 1991. Chaim Herzog. The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in The Middle East. New York: Vintage, 1984. Peter Hopkirk. The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Asia. New York: Kodansha, 1992. Albert Houani. A History of The Arab Peoples. New York: Harvard, 1991. Norman Housley. The Later Crusades: From Lyons To Alcazar, 1274-1580. New York: Oxford, 1992. Fereydoun Hoveyda. The Broken Crescent: The 'Threat' of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Mark Hubbard. Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Hala Jaber. Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Roland Jacquard. In the Name of Osama Bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin Laden Brotherhood. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Paul Johnson. A History of The Jews. New York: Harper, 1987, Robert D. Kaplan. The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. New York: Free Press, 1995. ___. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ___. Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. New York: Random House, 2000. Karim H. Karim. Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. New York: Black Rose Books, 2000. Samir al-Khalil. Republic of Fear: An Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 1989. J. B. Kelly. Arabia, The Gulf & The West. New York: Basic Books, 1980. Gilles Kepel. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Majid Khadduri. The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict. New York: Oxford, 1988. David Kimche and Dan Bawly. The Six-Day War: Prologue and Aftermath. New York: Stein and Day, 1971. Lord Kinross. Ataturk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey. New York: Morrow, 1964. Rudyard Kipling. Kim. New York: Penguin, 1901. Dan Kurzman. Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. New York: World, 1970. Walter Laqueur. A History of Zionism. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972. T.E. Lawrence. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New York: Anchor, 1935. Bernard Lewis. The Multiple Identities of the Middle East. New York: Schocken Books, 1998. ___. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. New York Simon and Schuster, 1995. ___. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. New York: Oxford, 2002. B. H. Liddel Hart. Lawrence of Arabia. New York: De Capo, 1935. Mary S. Lovell. A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. Frank McLynn. Burton: Snow Upon the Desert. London: John Murray, 1990. Amin Maalouf. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken, 1984. Sandra Mackey. The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Patrick Macrory. Retreat from Kabul: The Incredible Story of How a Savage Afghan Force Massacred the World’s Most Powerful Army. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2002. Frank McLynn. Burton: Snow Upon the Desert. London: Fred Murray, 1990. Peter Mansfield. A History of The Middle East. New York: Viking, 1991. Kati Marton. A Death in Jerusalem: The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli Peacemakers. New York: Pantheon, 1990. Mark Mazower. The Balkans: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2002. Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington, DC: Counterpoint Books, 1999. Judith Miller. God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from the Militant Middle East. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie. Saddam Hussein and The Crisis in The Gulf. New York: Times Books, 1990. Alan Moorehead. The White Nile. New York: Harper Collins, 1960. ___. The Blue Nile. New York: Harper Collins, 1962 Leonard Mosely. Power Game: Oil In The Middle East. Random House. 1973. Shlomo Nakidmon. First Strike: The Exclusive Story of How Israel Foiled Iraq' Attempt To Get The Bomb. New York: Summit, 1990. Donald Neff. Warriors At Suez: Eisenhower Takes American Into The Middle East. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Edgar O'Ballance. No Victor, No Vanquished: The Yom Kippur War. Novato, CA: Presido Press, 1978. . The Gulf War. New York: Brassey's, 1988. Conor Cruise O'Brien. The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Michael B. Oren. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York: Oxford, 2002. Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy. By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer. New York: St. Martin's, 1990. Rithie Ovendale. The Origins of The Arab-Israeli Wars. New York: Longman's, 1984. Daniel Pipes. Militant Islam Reaches America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Nicole and Hugh Pope. Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey. New York: Overlook, 2000. David Pryce-Jones. The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs. New York: Harper, 1991. Itamar Rabinovich. The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations. New York: Oxford,1991. Ahmed Rashid. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. ___. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Dan Ravin and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community. New York: Houghton Miflin, 1990. James Reston, Jr. Warriors of God: Richard The Lionhearted and Saladin in The Third Crusade. New York: Random House, 2001. Edward Rice. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography. New York: Da Capo, 1990. Jonathan Riley-Smith. The Crusades: A Short History. New Haven: Yale, 1987. Will and Sharon Rogers. Storm Center: The USS Vincennes and Iran Air Flight 655. Annapolis,MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992. Steve Runciman. The Fall of Constantinople 1453. New York: Cambridge, 1963. Edward Said. Orientalism. New York: Vantage, 1979. Ronald Sanders. The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1983. Patrick Seale. Abu Nidal: A Gun For Hire. New York: Random House, 1992. . Asad of Syria: The Struggle For The Middle East. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. R.W. Seton-Watson. Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. New York: Norton, 1972. Anthony Shadid. Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. Ze'ev Shiff and Ehud Ya'ari. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising -- Israel's Third Front. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. David K. Shipler. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits In A Promised Land. New York: Viking, 1986. Avi Shlaim. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, The Zionists, and Palestine, 1921-1951. New York: Oxford, 1990. ___. The Iron Will: Israel and the Arab World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. R.C. Smail. Crusading Warfare, 1097-1193. New York: Cambridge, 1978. Ehud Sprinzak. The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Harry G. Summers. On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of The Gulf War. New York: Dell, 1992. Stephen Tanner. Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban. New York: Da Capo, 2002. Andrew Taylor. God’s Fugitive: The Life of C. M. Doughy. New York: Dorset Press, 1999. Lowell Thomas. With Lawrence In Arabia. Garden City: Grove Books, 1924. Kenneth R. Timmerman. The Death Lobby: How The West Armed Iraq. New York: Houghton Miflin, 1991. Louis Toscano. Triple Cross: Israel, The Atomic Bomb and The Man Who Spilled The Secrets. New York: Carol, 1990. U.S. News and World Report. Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War. New York: Times/Random House, 1992. Milton Viorst. In The Shadow of the Prophet. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Janet Wallach. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1996. Bernard Wasserstein. Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Andrew Wheatcroft. The Ottomans: Dissolving Imagines. New York: Penguin, 1993. Jeremy Wilson. Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence. New York: Macmillan, 1987. Robin Wright. Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam. Simon and Schuster, 1985. . In The Name of God: The Khomeini Regime. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. ___. The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. New York: Vintage Books, 2000. M.E. Yapp. The Making of the Modern Middle East 1792-1923. New York: Longman's, 1987. Daniel Yergin. The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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