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ALGERIA
The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria
by John W. Kiser
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback; (February 2003)
ISBN: 0312302940
Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism
by William B. Quandt
Paperback: 175 pages
Publisher: The Brookings Institution; (June 1998)
ISBN: 0815773013
The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002, Studies in a Broken Polity
by Hugh Roberts
Hardcover: 402 pages
Publisher: Verso Books; (February 27, 2003)
ISBN: 185984684X
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BAHRAIN
First Light: Modern Bahrain and Its Heritage
by Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifah
Hardcover: 152 pages
Publisher: Kegan Paul Intl; (February 1995)
ISBN: 0710304943
The House of Kanoo: A Century of an Arabian Family Business
by Khalid M. Kanoo
Hardcover: 363 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (July 1998)
ASIN: 1860642349
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EGYPT
No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam
by Geneive Abdo
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0195157931
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A Short History of Modern Egypt
by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (September 1985)
ISBN: 0521272343
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience
by Caryle Murphy
Hardcover: 359 pages
Publisher: Scribner; (October 1, 2002)
ISBN: 0743235789
Cairo: The City Victorious
by Max Rodenbeck
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books; (February 22, 2000)
ISBN: 0679767274
Mobilizing Islam
by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; (October 15, 2002)
ISBN: 0231125739
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IRAN
Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American Iranian Relations
by James A. Bill
Paperback:
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; Reprint edition (August 1989)
ISBN: 0300044127
The History of Iran
by Elton L. Daniel
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group; (November 2000)
ISBN: 0313307318
Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process
by Masoud Kamali
Hardcover: 318 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company; (September 1998)
ISBN: 1840144491
Global Security Watch--Iran: A Reference Handbook
by Thomas R. Mattair
Hardcover: 224 page
Publisher: Praeger Security International Academic Cloth (June 30, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0275994839
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran
by Gary Sick
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Backinprint.com; (November 2001)
ISBN: 0595202535
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IRAQ
Saddam Hussein
by Said K. Aburish
Paperback: 406 pages
Publisher: Trafalgar Square; (March 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0747549036
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
by Hanna Batatu, John Batatu
Paperback: 1312 pages
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Reprint edition (November 1982)
ASIN: 0691021988
Iraq Country Review 1999/2000
by Debra Ewing (Editor), Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Youngblood (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor)
Spiral-bound: 80 pages
Publisher: CountryWatch.com; (September 1, 1999)
ISBN: 1583102981
Independent Iraq: The Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-58
by Matthew Elliot
Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; (December 1996)
ISBN: 1850437297
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Paperback: 346 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reissue edition (June 1969)
ISBN: 0385014856
The Making of Iraq, 1900-1963: Capital, Power, and Ideology
by Samira Haj
Paperback: 215 pages
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr; (March 1997)
ISBN: 0791432424
Iraq
by Susan M. Hassig
Library Binding: 128 pages
Publisher: Benchmark Books; 2nd edition (November 1995)
ISBN: 1854355333
Cradle of Civilization
by Samuel Noah Kramer
Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Company; (June 1969)
ASIN: 0316326178
Modern History of Iraq
by Phebe Marr
Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press; 2nd edition (August 2003)
ISBN: 0813336155
The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
by Geoff Simons
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd edition (June 1996)
ISBN: 0312215193
A History of Iraq
by Charles Tripp
Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); 2nd edition (May 2002)
ISBN: 052152900X
Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate
by Gaston Wiet
Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); (June 1971)
ASIN: 080610922X
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ISRAEL
The Second Republic: Politics in Israel
by Asher Arian
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Chatham House Publishers; (October 1997)
ISBN: 1566430526
Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
by Meron Benvenisti
Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; (January 2002)
ISBN: 0520234227
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The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface
by Alan Dowty
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; (January 30, 1998)
ISBN: 0520209419
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader
by Arthur Hertzberg (Editor)
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society; (October 1997)
ISBN: 0827606222
Israel's Border Wars 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War
by Benny Morris
Hardcover: 451 pages
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; (October 1993)
ASIN: 0198278500
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001
by Benny Morris
Paperback: 784 pages
Publisher: Knopf; (August 14, 2001)
ISBN: 0679744754
In the Land of Israel
by Amos Oz
Paperback: 275 pages
Publisher: Harvest Books; Reprint edition (November 1993)
ISBN: 0156481146
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
by Howard M. Sachar
Paperback: 1153 pages
Publisher: Knopf; 2nd edition (February 1996)
ISBN: 0679765638
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
by Tom Segev
Hardcover: 612 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; (November 2000)
ISBN: 0805048480
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JORDAN
Historical Dictionary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
by Peter Gubser
Hardcover: 164 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press; (November 1, 1991)
ISBN: 0810824493
Colonial Effects
by Joseph Andoni Massad
Paperback: 276 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; (October 15, 2001)
ISBN: 023112323X
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor
Hardcover: 467 pages
Publisher: Miramax; (March 18, 2003)
ISBN: 0786867175
Village, Steppe and State: The Social Origins of Modern Jordan
by Eugene L. Rogan, Tariq Tell (Editor)
Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (January 1995)
ISBN: 1850438293
Note: This book is currently not available but can be found at libraries.
The Modern History of Jordan
by Kamal Salibi
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; (April 1999)
ISBN: 1860643310
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KUWAIT
Women in Kuwait: The Politics of Gender
by Haya Al-Mughni
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Al Saqi; (June 2001)
ISBN: 0863563589
Kuwait: The Transformation of an Oil State
by Jill Crystal
Hardcover: 194 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; (June 1992)
ASIN: 0813308887
Walls Built on Sand: Migration, Exclusion, and Society in Kuwait
by Anh Nga Longva
Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; (December 1997)
ISBN: 0813337852
Stories of Democracy
by Mary Ann Tetreault
Hardcover: 326 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press; 0 edition (May 15, 2000)
ISBN: 0231114885
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LEBANON
The Precarious Republic: Political Modernization in Lebanon
by Michael Hudson
Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press; (May 1985)
ASIN: 081330105X
Note: This book is out of print but available at libraries.
The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967-1976
by Farid El Khazen
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (April 14, 2000)
ISBN: 0674081056
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Constructing Lebanon: A Century of Literary Narratives
by Elise Salem
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: University Press of Florida; (March 2003)
ISBN: 0813025966
A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered
by Kamal Salibi
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition (November 1990)
ISBN: 0520071964
Modern History of Lebanon
by Kamal S. Salibi
Hardcover: 227 pages
Publisher: Caravan Books; Reprint edition (1977)
ISBN: 0882060155
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LIBYA
Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction
by Mansour O. El-Kikhia
Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: University Press of Florida; Reprint edition (February 1998)
ISBN: 0813015855
Historical Dictionary of Libya
by Ronald Bruce St John
Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press; Third edition (July 1998)
ISBN: 0810834952
Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife
by Ronald Bruce St John
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0812236726
Political Culture in Libya
by Amal Obeidi
Hardcover
Publisher: Curzon Press; (January 2002)
ISBN: 0700712291
"Escape To Hell" and Other Stories
by Muammar Gadaffi
Hardcover: 213 pages
Publisher: Blake Publishing Ltd; (January 1, 1999)
ISBN: 185782346X
Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building
by Dirk Vandewalle
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; (July 1998)
ISBN: 0801485355
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MOROCCO
Religion and Power in Morocco
by Henry, Jr. Munson
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; 1 edition (September 1993)
ISBN: 0300053762
Morocco since 1830: A History
by C. R. Pennell
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: New York University Press; (March 2001)
ISBN: 0814766773
The Commander of the Faithful; the Moroccan Political Elite
by John Waterbury
367 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press;
ASIN: 0231033265
Note: This book is out of print but available at libraries.
The Political Economy of Morocco
by I. William Zartman
Hardcover: 278 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; (September 1987)
ISBN: 0275925935
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OMAN
Oman
by Calvin H. Allen
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library); (August 2002)
ISBN: 0791065081
Oman Under Qaboos: From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996
by Calvin H, Jr Allen, W. Lynn Rigsbee
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Frank Cass & Co; (June 2000)
ISBN: 0714650013
Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy
by Joseph A. Kechichian
Hardcover: 434 pages
Publisher: RAND; (October 1995)
ISBN: 0833023349
Oman: Political Development in a Changing World
by Carol J. Riphenburg
Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; (April 1998)
ISBN: 0275961443
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PALESTINE
Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
by Kathleen Christison
Paperback: 379 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; Updated edition (October 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0520217187
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A Stone in My Hand
by Cathryn Clinton
School & Library Binding: 191 pages
Publisher: Candlewick Press; (October 2002)
ISBN: 0763613886
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
by Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (Translator)
Paperback:
Publisher: Three Continents Pr; 3rd edition (January 1991)
ASIN: 089410392X
The Palestinian People : A History
by Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; (March 2003)
ISBN: 0674011295
The Question of Palestine
by Edward W. Said
Paperback: 273 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books; Reissue edition (April 1992)
ISBN: 0679739882
Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948
by Naomi Shepherd
Hardcover: 290 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press; (March 2000)
ISBN: 0813527651
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QATAR
Oil and Politics in the Gulf : Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar
by Jill Crystal
Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Updated edition (March 1995)
ISBN: 0521466350
Al Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East
by Mohammed El-Nawawy, Adel Iskandar
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; (April 2, 2002)
ISBN: 0813340179
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SAUDI ARABIA
Out in the Blue: Letters from Arabia 1937-1940
by Thomas C. Barger, Timothy J. Barger
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Selwa Press; (November 1, 2000)
ISBN: 0970115733
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Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent
by Mamoun Fandy
Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (February 2001)
ISBN: 0312238827
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Succession in Saudi Arabia
by Joseph A. Kechichian
Hardcover: 287 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (June 2001)
ISBN: 0312238800
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
by David Long
Hardcover: 154 pages
Publisher: University Press of Florida; (April 1997)
ISBN: 0813014719
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SYRIA
Just Like a River
by Muhammad Kamil Al-Khatib; Maher Barakat, Michelle Hartman (Translator)
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group; (October 2002)
ISBN: 1566564751
Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics
by Hanna Batatu
Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; (July 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0691002541
Monuments of Syria: A Historical Guide
by Ross Burns
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Zed Books; (July 2000)
ISBN: 1860642446
The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and the Ba'th Party
by Nikolaos Van Dam
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; Reprint edition (June 1996)
ISBN: 1860640249
Syria: Revolution from Above
by Raymond Hinnebusch
Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge; (September 2001)
ISBN: 041526779X
Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East
by Patrick Seale
Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press; (March 1990)
ISBN: 0520069765
Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
by Lisa Wedeen
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; (May 1999)
ISBN: 0226877884
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TUNISIA
Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia
by Stephen J. King
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; (May 2003)
ISBN: 0253215838
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TURKEY
Turkish Foreign Policy, 1774-2000
by William Hale
Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Frank Cass & Co; (July 2002)
ISBN: 0714682462
A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States
by Heinz Kramer
Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; (May 2000)
ISBN: 0815750234
The Emergence of Modern Turkey
by Bernard Lewis
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 3rd edition (September 2001)
ISBN: 0195134605
Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
by Andrew Mango
Paperback: 539 pages
Publisher: Overlook Press; (November 2002)
ISBN: 158567334X
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922
by Donald Quataert
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (August 2000)
ISBN: 0521633605
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
From Rags to Riches: A Story of Abu Dhabi
by Mohammed Al-Fahim
Hardcover: 191 pages
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; ()
ASIN: 1860642330
From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
by Frauke Heard-Bey
Hardcover: 522 pages
Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom; (January 1982)
ASIN: 0582780322
Mother Without a Mask: A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family
by Patricia Holton
Paperback: 278 pages
Publisher: Cathie (Kyle); Reissue edition (July 2001)
ISBN: 185626288X
A Century in Thirty Years : Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates
by Joseph A. Kechichian (Editor)
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council; (February 22, 2000)
ISBN: 0943182085
The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa
by Thomas R. Mattair
Hardcover: 600 pages
Publisher: Abu Dhabi: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
Distributor: I.B. Tauris; (January 2007)
ISBN: 0943182085
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YEMEN
Yemen: Jewel of Arabia
by Charles Aithie, Patricia Aithie
Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Stacey Intl; 1st edition (October 1, 2000)
ISBN: 1900988151
A History of Modern Yemen
by Paul Dresch
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (February 2001)
ISBN: 052179482X
Revolution and Foreign Policy : The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987
by Fred Halliday
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (April 2002)
ISBN: 0521891647
Impressions of Yemen
by Pascal Marechaux, Maria Marechaux
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Flammarion; (October 1997)
ISBN: 208013647X
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GENERAL
Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey
by Fouad Ajami
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books; (July 1999)
ISBN: 0375704744
Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair
by Adeed Dawisha
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; (February 2003)
ISBN: 0691102732
Sahara: A Natural History
by Marq De Villiers, Sheila Hirtle
Hardcover: 326 pages
Publisher: Walker & Co; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0802713726
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Paperback: 346 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reissue edition (June 1969)
ISBN: 0385014856
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
Paperback: 635 pages
Publisher: Owl Books; (October 2001)
ISBN: 0805068848
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
by Raymond A. Hinnebusch (Editor), Anoushiravan Ehteshami (Editor)
Paperback: 381 pages
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers; (January 2002)
ISBN: 1588260208
A History of the Arab Peoples
by Albert Hourani
Paperback: 551 pages
Publisher: Warner Books; (April 1992)
ISBN: 0446393924
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age
by R. Stephen Humphreys
Paperback: 319 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; (March 5, 2001)
ISBN: 0520229185
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The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
by David Long
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; 4th edition (March 15, 2002)
ISBN: 0813339723
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf
Paperback:
Publisher: Schocken Books; Reissue edition (April 1989)
ISBN: 0805208984
Arab Women: Between Defiance and Restraint
by Suha Sabbagh (Editor)
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group; (January 2002)
ISBN: 1566561876
The Stakes: America and the Middle East
by Shibley Telhami
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; (December 3, 2002)
ISBN: 0813340780
Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East
by Shibley Telhami (Editor), Michael N. Barnett (Editor)
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; (January 2002)
ISBN: 0801487455
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Anchor Books; (July 20, 1999)
ISBN: 0385495757
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THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL
Ruling Shaikhs and Her Majesty's Government: Britain's Last Decade in the Gulf,
the 1960's
by Miriam Joyce
Hardcover
Publisher: Frank Cass & Co; (May 2003)
ISBN: 0714654132
Gulf Cooperation and the Council: An American Perspective
by Joseph Wright Twinam
Paperback
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council; (December 1992)
ISBN: 0943182077
Note: Available through Middle East Policy Council.
ISLAM
Roman Catholics and Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion, and Politics
by James A. Bill, John Alden Williams
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr; (March 18, 2002)
ISBN: 0807826898
What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam
by John L. Esposito
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (October 2002)
ISBN: 0195157133
In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books; (November 10, 1998)
ISBN: 0385488580
Jihad : The Trail of Political Islam
by Gilles Kepel
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Belknap Pr; (March 2003)
ISBN: 0674010906
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; (March 25, 2003)
ISBN: 0679642811
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
by Maria Rosa Menocal
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; (April 2003)
ISBN: 0316168718
The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Hardcover: 338 pages
Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco; 1st edition (September 3, 2002)
ISBN: 0060099240
Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations
by Michael Sells (Translator)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: White Cloud Press; Book and CD edition (November 15, 1999)
ISBN: 1883991269
One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage
by Michael Wolfe
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; (February 1999)
ISBN: 0802135994
Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith
by Michael Wolfe (Editor), Beliefnet
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Rodale Press; (November 2002)
ISBN: 1579546552
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ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
This Side of Peace
by Hanan Ashrawi
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Touchstone Books; (June 1996)
ISBN: 068482342X
Blood Brothers
by Elias Chacour
Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Chosen Books Pub Co; (February 2003)
ISBN: 0800793218
War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land
by Anton LaGuardia
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; Revised and Updated edition (May 2003)
ISBN: 031231633X
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0195151747
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Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967
by William B. Quandt
Paperback: 636 pages
Publisher: The Brookings Institution; (June 1993)
ISBN: 0520083903
The War for Palestine : Rewriting the History of 1948
by Eugene L. Rogan (Editor), Avi Shlaim (Editor)
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); (May 2001)
ISBN: 0521794765
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
by Tom Segev
Hardcover: 612 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; (November 2000)
ISBN: 0805048480
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The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
by Avi Shlaim
Paperback: 704 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (January 2001)
ISBN: 0393321126
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Charles D Smith
Paperback: 541 pages
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; 4th edition (November 2000)
ISBN: 0312208286
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Mark A. Tessler
Paperback: 906 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; (June 1994)
ISBN: 0253208734
The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements
by Geoffrey R. Watson
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (October 2000)
ISBN: 0198298919
OIL
The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and the Economics of the New World Order
by Mary Ann Tetreault
Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group; (January 30, 1995)
ISBN: 0899305105
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin
Paperback: 928 pages
Publisher: Touchstone Books; Reissue edition (January 1993)
ISBN: 0671799320
WATER
Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace
by Hussein A. Amery (Editor), Aaron T. Wolf (Editor)
Hardcover: 315 pages
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; (February 2000)
ISBN: 0292704941
Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and Palestinian-Israeli Water Resources
by Sharif S. Elmusa
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Institute for Palestine Studies; (February 1998)
ISBN: 0887282687
WOMEN
Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance
by Fadwa El Guindi, Fadwa El Guindi
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd; (September 1999)
ISBN: 1859739296
Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
Paperback: 283 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; (September 2002)
ISBN: 0520229444
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