The Middle East

Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:02
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An unfortunate and uninformative name... Roughly: the countries between the Sahara and the Mediterranean, plus those between the Nile and the Oxus.

Recommended:
• Fouad Ajami
  • The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967
  • The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey
• Kanan Makiya, a.k.a. Samir al-Khalil
  • Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World
  • Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

To read:
• Ervand Abrahamian, Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic [online]
• Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi`, Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
• Barbara Hughes Fowler, Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt
• David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
• Francesco Gabrielli, Arab Historians of the Crusades
• P. Hitti, A History of the Arab Peoples
• Taha Hussein, The Days: An Autobiography in Three Parts
• Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
• Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh, Empires of the Sand
• Gilles Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh
• Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History
• Robert Malley, The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam
• Jonathan C. Randal, After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters with Kurdistan
• Dwight Reynolds (ed.), [online]
• Israel Shahak, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies
• Edward Shirley, Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran
• Louise E. Sweet (ed.), Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East