The Middle East
03 Oct 1994 12:02An 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
