Student Text Resources
There are many resources available on the Internet for you to explore more about the Middle East. Some of these resources are listed below.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights at: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/udhr.html
Other Sources to consider:
http://www.mideastweb.org/oslofailed.htm
http://www.mideastweb.org/meoslodop.htm
http://www.multied.com/Israel/Documents/Oslo.html
http://www.foodreference.com/html/fcelery.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_map_for_peace
Books
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Amos, John W. Palestinian Resistance: Organization of a National Movement. New York: Pergamon, 1980.
Arian, Asher The Second Republic: Politics in Israel. New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers, 1997.
Aruri, Naseer, ed. Occupation: Israel Over Palestine. Belmont: Association of Arab—American University Students, 1989.
Aruri, Naseer Hasan, ed. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. London: Pluto, 2001.
Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Ateek, Naim. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1989.
Benvenisti, Meron. Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. Berkeley: University of California, 2000.
Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
Bernards, Neal. The Palestinian Conflict. From the Opposing Viewpoints Juniors Series. San Diego: Greenhaven, Press, 1990.
Bickerton, Ian J. and Carla L. Klausner. A Concise History of the Arab—Israeli Conflict. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.
Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Prospects for Resolving the Conflict. London: Zed Books, 2001.
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros. Egypt's Road to Jerusalem, A Diplomat's Story of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East. New York: Random House, 1997.
Brynen, Rex. Sanctuary and Survival: The PLO in Lebanon. Boulder: Westview, 1990.
Buber, Martin. On Zion: The History of an Idea. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Carey, Roane, ed. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid. London: Verso Books, 2001.
Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
Cheshin, Amir S. and Bill Hutman. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Cohen, Michael J. and Martin Kolinsky, eds. Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Responses to Nationalist Movements 1943—55. London: Frank Cass, 1998.
Cohn-Sherbok, Daniel, and Dawoud El-Alami. The Palestine—Israeli Conflict. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.
Dershowitz, Alan. The Case for Israel. New York: John Wiley, 2003.
Dothan, Shmuel. A Land in the Balance: The Struggle for Palestine 1919—1948. Jerusalem: Gefen Books, 1996.
Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
Edelheit, Abraham and Hershel Edelheit. History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary. Denver: Westview Press, 1999.
Elon, Amos. Blood—Dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Emmett, Ayala H. Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli—Palestinian Coexistence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Ezrahi, Yaron. Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Farsoun, Samih K. and Christina Zacharia. Palestine and the Palestinians. Denver: Westview Press, 1998.
Findley, Paul. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.—Israeli Relationship. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1993.
Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts. New York: Touchstone Books, 2002.
Garfinkle, Adam M. War, Water, and Negotiation in the Middle East: the Case of the Palestine—Syria Border 1916—1923. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1994.
Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict Over Palestine. Denver: Westview Press, 1994.
Gilbert, Martin. The Arab—Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
Gitelman, Zvi, ed. The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
Golani, Moti, and Avi Shlaim. Israel in Search of a War: The Sinai Campaign 1955—1956. Sussex: Academic Press, 1997.
Goldberg, David J. To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its Origins to the Modern State of Israel. London: Penguin, 1997.
Grossman, David. Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1993.
Grossman, David. The Yellow Wind. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.
Guyatt, Nicholas. The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli—Palestinian Conflict. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Halamish, Aviva and Ora Cummings, trans. The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Halevi, Yossi Klein. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
Halpern, Ben and Jehuda Reinharz. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. New York: Brandeis University, 2000.
Hamzeh, Muna. Refugees in Our Own Land: Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. London: Pluto, 2001.
Hazony, Yoram. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Heller, Joseph. The Birth of Israel 1945—1949: Ben-Gurion and His Critics. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
Heller, Joseph. The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics, and Terror 1940—1949. London: Frank Cass, 1995.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Israel: An Echo of Eternity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
Hiltermann, Joost. Behind the Intifada: Labor and Womens Movement in the Occupied Territories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Horovitz, David, ed. Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin. New York: Newmarket Press, 1996.
Hurwitz, Harry and Patrick R. Zvi Denker, eds. Begin: A Portrait. Washington: Bnai Brith Books, 1994.
IIan, Amitzur. Bernadotte in Palestine, I948. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
Israelian, Viktor Levonovich. Inside the Kremlin During the Yom Kippur War. University Park, Pennsylvania: State University Press, 1995.
Jaber, Hala. Hezbollah: Born with a Vengeance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Jabotinsky, Z'ev. The War and the Jew. New York: Altalena Press, 1987.
Kally, Elisha and Gideon Fishelson. Water and Peace: Water Resources and the Arab—Israeli Peace Process. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann. Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Karsh, Efraim. Fabricating Israeli History The New Historians. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
Katz, Amnon. Israel: The Two Halves of the Nation. Northport: Inverted A, 1999.
Katz, Samuel M. Israeli Tank Battles: Yom Kippur to Lebanon. New York: Arms and Armour Press, 1988.
Kawar, Amal. Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women and the Palestinian National Movement. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Kedar, Benjamin. The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. Israel. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 1999.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Khalidi, Walid. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Khalidi, Walid. Palestine Reborn. London: I. B. Tauris and Company, 1992.
Khouri, Philip. Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920—1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Khoury, Ran. Palestinian Women and the Intifada. Bethlehem: International Centre of Bethlehem, 1995.
Kimche, Jon. The Secret Roads: The “legal” Migration of a People 1938—1948. New York: Hyperion Press, 1976.
Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. Palestinians: The Making of a People. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians. New York: Verso Books, 2003.
Kimmerling, Baruch. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: Society, Culture and Military. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Klieman, Aaron S., ed. U.S. Reactions to British Mandate. New York: Garland Publishers, 1991.
Kozodoy, Neal, ed. The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2001.
Kurrab, Jonathan, and Raja Shehadeh. Civilian Administration in the Occupied West Bank. Ramallah: Law in the Service of Man, 1982.
Kurzman, Dan. Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin: 1922—1995. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.
Kushner, David, ed. Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period: Political Social and Economic Transformation. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1986.
LaGuardia, Anton. War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003.
Laquer, W. and B. Rubin. The Israel—Arab Reader. London: Penguin, 1995.
Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York: Fine Communications, 1997.
Latham, Edward. Crisis in the Middle East. New York: Wilson, 1952.
Laurerpacht, Elihu. Jerusalem and the Holy Places. London: Anglo—Israel Association, 1968.
Lesch, Ann Mosely, and Mark Tessler. Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians: From Camp David to Intifada. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Levenberg, Haim. The Military Preparations of the Arab Community of Palestine, 1945—48. London: Frank Cass, 1993.
Livni, Michael and Henry F. Skirball. Reform Zionism: Twenty Years—An Educator's Perspective. Jerusalem: Gefen Books, 1999.
Lochery, Neill. Israeli Labour Party: In the Shadow of the Likud. Exeter: Ithaca, 1997.
Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine 1906—1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Lukacs, Yehuda. Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Lukacs, Yehuda. The Israeli—Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Lustick, Ian, ed. Arab—Israeli Relations in World Politics. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.
Lustick, lan. Arabs in the Jewish State. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.
Luz, Ehud. Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in the Early Zionist Movement, 1882—1904. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1988.
Margalit, Avishai. Views in Review: Politics and Culture in the State of the Jews. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Marton, Kati. A Death in Jerusalem: The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli Peacemakers. New York: Pantheon, 1990.
Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882—1948. Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Mayer, Tamar, ed. Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change. New York: Routledge, 1994.
McGowan, D. and M. Ellis. Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1998.
Medoff, Rafael Waxman and Jon Chaim I. Woronoff, eds. Historical Dictionary of Zionism. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Meir, Golda. My Life. New York: Dell, 1975.
Melman, Yossi. The New Israelis: An Intimate View of a Changing People. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992.
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Miller, Ylana. Government and Society in Rural Palestine 1920—1948. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Moore, John, ed. The Arab—Israeli Conflict: The Difficult Search for Peace (1975—1988, Part 1). Princeton University Press, 1992.
Morris, Benny. Correcting a Mistake Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel 1936—1956. Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2000.
Morris, Benny. Israel's Border Wars 1949—1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947—1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Najjar, Orayb Aref and Kitty Warnock. Portraits of Palestinian Women. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992.
Nashashibi, Nasser Eddin. Jerusalem's Other Voice: Ragheb Nashashibi and Moderation in Palestinian Politics, 1920—1948. Exeter: Ithaca Press, 1990.
Neff, Donald. Warriors At Suez: Eisenhower Takes Americans Into the Middle East. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
Neff, Donald. Warriors for Jerusalem: The Six Days That Changed the Middle East. New York: Linden Press/Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Nethanyahu, Benjamin. A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Novik, Nimrod. Encounter with Reality. Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.
Oren, Michael. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Owen, Roger. Palestinian Refugees: Their Problem and Future. Washington: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, 1994.
Oz, Amos. Israel, Palestine and Peace. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1994.
Palumbo M. The Palestinian Catastrophe. The 1948 Expulsion of the People. New York: Faber and Faber, 1987.
Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab—Israeli Conflict, 1947—1951. London: I. B. Tauris, 1992.
Parker, Richard B. and Harold H. Saunders, eds. The Six-Day War: A Retrospective. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Penkower, Monty Noam. The Emergence of Zionist Thought. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991.
Penkower, Monty Noam. The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty. Urbana Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Peres, Shimon and Robert Littell. For the Future of Israel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Peres, Shimon. David's Sling. New York: Random House, 1995.
Peres, Shimon. The New Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
Peretz, Don. Palestinians, Refugees, and the Middle East Peace Process. Washington: United States Institute of Peace, 1993.
Quandt, William B., ed. The Middle East: Ten Years after Camp David. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1988.
Rabin, Yitzhak. The Rabin Memoirs. Boston, New York: Little, Brown, 1996.
Rabinovich, Itamar. The Brink of Peace. Princeton University Press, 1999.
Rabinovich, Itamar. Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Ravitzky, Aviezer. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Robertson, Ritchie and Edward Timms, eds. Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.
Rose, Norman, ed. From Palmerston to Balfour: Collected Essays of Mayir Verete. London: Frank Cass, 1992.
Rosenwasser, Penny. Voices From a Promised Land: Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts. Willimantic: Curbstone Press, 1992.
Roy, Sara. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development. Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995.
Rubenberg, Cheryl. The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003.
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