Middle East
Portal Sites:
Links below are for the Middle East as a whole or for large sections of the area.
Albawaba.com: Middle East News Information - search engine for the Middle East based in Jordan
ArabNet - The Resource for the Arab World in the Middle East and North Africa
BBC News | COUNTRY PROFILES - "concise profiles for all the major Middle East countries
Digital Librarian: Middle East
The Islamic World to 1600 (from University of Calgary History Dept.)
Maps of the Middle East (from the Perry-Castandea Map Library at the U. of Texas)
MENALIB: Middle East Virtual Library recommended by The Scout Report; includes subject guide for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and scholarly journals
The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide
Middle East Studies Internet Resources - from Columbia University, a part of the Middle East and Jewish Studies Program. Includes all kinds of resources, including libraries with good collections and art exhibits, music, news, economics, religion --an all inclusive site.
MidEast Web for Middle East Peace Education and dialogue -- Gateway
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources -- Middle East
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Public Health - Geographical Locations: Middle East
The Ancient World - links from our library about Ancient cultures, including those located in the Middle Eastern area.
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For information on specific countries see the following general sites:
CIA World Factbook
Eldis Country Profiles
Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Studies
Yahoo Directory: Countries and Regions of the Middle East
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Full-Text or Primary Sources:
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
Internet Islamic History Source Book
Internet Jewish History Source Book
Internet Modern History Source Book
Internet Women's History Source Book
MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute recommended by the Scout Report; translates Middle Eastern Media into many languages so viewers can obtain a balanced perspective of Middle Eastern news.
The New York Times: International - "Recent and historical news and documents covering many aspects of the Mideast Peace Process" Has not been updated since 2001, but still has some relevant information.
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Online Periodicals and News Sources:
Arab News -- Saudi Arabia's First English Daily Newspaper
BBC News |MIDDLE EAST - "Extensive news about the Middle East"
Daily Arab News - "about the Arabic world; Arabic news for Country by Country news coverage"
The Daily Star - Lebanon - "The Daily Star on line is the electronic edition of The Daily Star, the Lebanese English newspaper"
Israel News From the Jerusalem Post Internet Edition - "On-line news from Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading English language daily newspaper, updated frequently"
Jordan Times - "an Independent Arab Political Daily Published in Amman"
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Topical Sites:
Al-Islam - compiled by the Digital Islamic Library Project, whose aim is to "to digitize important Islamic resources and make them available to the masses through the Internet."
The American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) - "non-profit, tax-exempt organization established in 1993 to serve the information needs of this country relative to the Kurds (Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria)"
Arab newspapers, Arabic newspapers, Arab magazines, journals, newsstand: Jareeda - links to Arabic newspapers
CSIS Middle East Program
"The CSIS Middle East Program focuses on United States interests in the region including the Arab-Israeli peace process, threats to stability, energy issues, demographic and economic factors."
Foundation for Middle East Peace - "a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and assisting in a peaceful solution that brings security for both peoples"
Kurdistan Regional Government Home
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Books
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Williams, Paul L. |
Al Qaeda: brotherhood of terror. Parsippany, NJ: Alpha, 2002. |
| 327.73056 L |
Little, Douglas. |
American Orientalism: the United States and the Middle East since 1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. |
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Polk, William Roe. |
The Arab world today. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991. |
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Humphreys, R. Stephen |
Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999. |
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Kass, Ilana. |
The deadly embrace: the impact of Israeli and Palestinian rejectionism on the peace process. Fairfax, Va.: National Institute for Public Policy; Lanham, MD: University Press of American, 1997. |
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Hiro, Dilip. |
Dictionary of the Middle East. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. |
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Ajami, Fouad. |
The dream palace of the Arabs: a generation's odyssey. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. |
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Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Simon & Schuster Macmillan; London : Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1996. |
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Said, Edward W |
The end of the peace process: Oslo and after. New York: Vintage Books, 2001. |
| 327 F |
Raymond Hinnebusch and Anoushiravan Ehteshami , eds. |
The foreign policies of Middle East states Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. |
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Zakaria, Fareed. |
The future of freedom: illiberal democracy at home and abroad. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003 |
| 956.92 F |
Friedman, Thomas L. |
From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989. |
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Gordon, Michael R |
The generals' war: the inside story of the conflict in the Gulf. Boston: Little, Brown, c1995. |
| 327.2 A |
Ammon, Royce J. |
Global television and the shaping of world politics: CNN, telediplomacy, and foreign policy. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2001. |
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Herding cats: multiparty mediation in a complex world. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1999. |
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Lapidus, Ira M. |
A history of Islamic societies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
| 953 H |
Hourani, Albert Habib. |
A history of the Arab peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991. |
| 956 C |
Cleveland, William L. |
A history of the modern Middle East. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. |
| 956.94 T |
Thomas, Baylis |
How Israel was won: a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 1999. |
| 956.04 S |
Shlaim, Avi. |
The Iron wall: Israel and the Arab world. New York: W.W. Norton, c2001. |
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Esposito, John L. |
The Islamic threat: myth or reality? New York: Oxford University Press, [1993], c1992. |
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The Israel-Arab reader: a documentary history of the Middle East conflict. New York Penguin, 2001. |
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Israel: the first hundred years. Vol. 2, From war to peace? 2000. |
| 320.9569 H |
Hazony, Yoram. |
The Jewish state: the struggle for Israel's soul. New York Basic Books, c2001. |
| 973.931 F |
Friedman, Thomas L. |
| Longitudes and attitudes: exploring the world after September 11. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. |
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Middle East endgame I: getting to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement. Amman; Washington; Brussels: International Crisis Group, 2002. |
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Middle East endgame II: How a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement would look. Amman; Washington; Brussels: International Crisis Group, 2002. |
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Middle East endgame III: Israel, Syria and Lebanon - how comprehensive peace settlements would look. Amman; Washington; Brussels: International Crisis Group, 2002. |
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Anderson, Ewan W. |
The Middle East: geography and geopolitics. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. |
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The Modern Middle East: a reader. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993. |
| 327.2 C |
Cohen, Raymond |
Negotiating across cultures: international communication in an interdependent world. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1997. |
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The new Intifada: resisting Israel's apartheid. London: Verso, 2001. |
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Pearlman, Wendy. |
Occupied voices: stories of everyday life from the second Intifada. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, Nation Books, 2003 . |
| 327.2 C |
Callierès, François de. |
On the manner of negotiating with princes. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin; London: Hi Marketing, 2001. |
| 956.94 S |
Segev, Tom |
One Palestine, complete: Jews and Arabs under the Mandate. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000. |
| 956.05 L |
Lesch, Ann Mosely. |
Origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. |
| 956 S |
Smith, Charles D. |
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. |
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Quandt, William B. |
Peace process: American diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1967. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press; Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001 |
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Yergin, Daniel. |
The prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power. New York: Touchstone, 1993, c1992. |
| 956 M |
Morris, Benny |
Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1998. New York: Knopf, 1999. |
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Shehadeh, Raja |
Strangers in the house: coming of age in occupied Palestine. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, c2002. |
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Taken by storm: the media, public opinion, and U.S. foreign policy in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1994. |
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'Ashrawi, Han an. |
This side of peace: a personal account. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995. |
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Triumph of the image: the media's war in the Persian Gulf: a global perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, c1992. |
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Von der Mehden, Fred R. |
Two worlds of Islam: interaction between Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c1993. |
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Taylor, Philip M. |
War and the media: propaganda and persuasion in the Gulf War. Manchester; New York Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1992. |
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The war for Palestine: rewriting the history of 1948. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. |
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Stefoff, Rebecca |
West Bank/Gaza Strip. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chelsea House, c1999. |
| 956 L |
Lewis, Bernard. |
What went wrong? Western impact and Middle Eastern response. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. |
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Journals
Periodicals Helpful for Middle East Research
(Electronic options are available through the Online Catalog and Through ProQuest, JStor, and Project Muse; items not specified are from ProQuest) In searching the electronic databases, additional articles can be found in more general publications such as Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, or The New Yorker. Also, the library subscribes under ProQuest Historic Newspapers to The New York Times Online from its inception to the present. All electronic databases are available within the Online Resources option on the Library's front page.
| Arab studies quarterly. Belmont, Ma., etc. Association of Arab-American University Graduates. |
| British journal of Middle Eastern studies. Exeter: British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, c1991- ProQuest and JStor |
| Challenge: a magazine of the Israeli left -Itgar. Tel Aviv: Shimon Tzabar, |
| The Department of State bulletin. [ Washington, D.C.?]: Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public Affairs: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1939-1989] |
| The DISAM journal of international security assistance management. Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: DISAM, |
| International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies - JStor |
| Israeli Studies - Project Muse |
| The Jerusalem post. Jerusalem [ Israel]: Palestine Post Ltd., 1950- |
| The Journal of conflict resolution. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Dept. of Journalism, University of Michigan, c1957- |
| Journal of Democracy. Project Muse |
| Journal of Muslim minority affairs. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK : Carfax, [1996- |
| Journal of Palestine Studies. JStor |
| Mediterranean Quarterly. Project Muse |
| The Middle East. [London, IC Magazines, Ltd., etc.] |
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The Middle East and South Asia. Washington, D.C.: Stryker-Post Publications, c1967- Located in REF; an annual publication |
| The Middle East journal. Washington, Middle East Institute |
| Middle East policy. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Policy Council, 1992- |
| Middle East Report. JStor Each issue discusses an issue; very useful title. |
| Middle Eastern studies. London, F. Cass. |
| The Muslim world: a quarterly review of history, culture, religions & the Christian mission in Islamdom. Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1948- |
| The National interest. [ New York, NY: National Affairs, Inc., c1985 |
| New statesman. London: New Statesman Ltd., 1996- |
| SAIS review. Project Muse |
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Saudi Aramco. Received in hard copy; excellent illustrations |
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United Nations chronicle. New York, NY: United Nations Dept. of Public Information, 1996- Received in hard copy |
| Washington Quarterly. Project Muse |
| The Washington report on Middle East affairs. Washington, D.C.: American Educational Trust, [1982- |
| World affairs. Washington, D.C.: American Peace Society, [1932- |
| World Politics. Project Muse |
| The World today. [ London, Oxford University Press, etc.] |
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