Egypt
Islam in Contemporary
Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State, by Denis J. Sullivan & Sana
Abed-Kotob
The Cairo Trilogy: Winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature:
Palace Walk (
)
by Naguib Mahfouz
Palace of Desire
by Naguib Mahfouz
Sugar Street
(
)
by Naguib Mahfouz
-God has
Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East (
), by Judith Miller
-The
Blue Guide to Egypt; a comprehensive Egyptian tour book
-Private
Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development, Private Initiative, and State
Control, by Denis J. Sullivan
-Accommodating
Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo,
by Arlene Elowe MacLeod
-In Search of
Identity, by Anwar al-Sadat
-The Middle
East: Ten Years after Camp David, by William B. Quandt (Editor)
Israel
The
Founding Myths of Israel.
Ze'ev Sternhell. Reassesses the ideas and philosophies that
surrounded the creation of Israel. (
).
The
End of the Peace Process
by Edward Said. For anyone who is confused by the Arab-Israeli
peace process, or is looking for the inside edge. Professor Said addresses the real issues at the heart of the conflict, those of
the Palestinian people. This collection provides true insight into the lives of Palestinians and their aspirations that are so often left
out of the media. (
).
-1949, the
First Israelis (
),
Tom Segev: The struggles to create the State of Israel
-Open
Secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies, by Israel Shahak and Edward
W. Said (
)
-From Beirut
to Jerusalem (
),
Thomas L. Freidman. A required read for anyone interested in the Middle East.
-Israel:
Yesterday and Today : A Photographic Survey of the Building of a Nation --
Amiram Gonen, Duby Tal (Photographer)
-The Birth of
Israel, by Marlin Levin
-Exodus(
),
Leon Uris: the story of the creation of Israel and the 1948 war.
-A Perfect
Peace(
), by
Amos Oz: The life of Israel and the kibbutz before the Six Day War
-A Place
Among Nations: Israel and the World by Binyamin Netanyahu
-For the
Future of Israel by Shimon Peres
-Friends in
Deed: Inside the US-Israeli Alliance, by Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv
Lebanon
-The Lonely
Planet Guide to Lebanon, by Ann Jousiffe (
)
-Den of
Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years, by Terry Anderson (
)
-Koolaids:
The Art of War, by Rabih Alameddine (
)
-Hezbollah:
Born with a Vengeance, by Hala Jaber (
)
-From Beirut
to Jerusalem (
),
Thomas L. Freidman. A required read for anyone interested in the Middle East.
-Amal
and the Shi'a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon, by Augustus Richard Norton
-A House
of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, by Kamal Salibi
Iran
-To See and See
Again: a Life in Iran and America, by Tara Bahrampour (
)
-Blood
and Oil: Inside the Shah's Iran, by Manucher & Roxane Farmanfarmaian (
)
-The
Lonely Planet Guide to Iran, by Paul Greenway (
)
Palestine
The
Founding Myths of Israel.
Ze'ev Sternhell. Reassesses the ideas and philosophies that
surrounded the creation of Israel. (
).
The
End of the Peace Process
by Edward Said. For anyone who is confused by the Arab-Israeli
peace process, or is looking for the inside edge. Professor Said addresses the real issues at the heart of the conflict, those of
the Palestinian people. This collection provides true insight into the lives of Palestinians and their aspirations that are so often left
out of the media. (
).
-The
Question of Palestine, by Edward W. Said (
)
-Palestine
and the Palestinians, by Samih K. Farsoun & Christina Zacharia (
)
-I am a
Palestinian Christian, Mitri Raheb (
)
-Justice
and Only Justice, a Palestinian Theology of Liberation, by Naim Stifan Ateek
and Rosemary Radford Ruether (
)
-Blood
Brothers, by Elias Chacour and David Hazard (
)
-Atlas of
the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Martin Gilbert (
)
-Israel,
Palestine & Peace: Essays, by Amos Oz and Drenka Willen (editor) (
)
Syria
-Asad
of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East, by Patrick Searle (
)
-Ambiguities of Domination : Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in
Contemporary Syria,
by Lisa Wedeen (
)
-The
Brink of Peace, by Itamar Rabinovitch
-Syria:
A Historical and Architectural Guide, by Warwick Ball
-Lonely
Planet Jordan and Syria (
)