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1) The ghost warriors: inside Israel's undercover war against suicide terrorism

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It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold story of how Israel fought back with an elite force of undercover operatives, drawn from the nation's diverse backgrounds and ethnicities-and united in their ability to walk among the enemy as no one else dared. Beginning in late 2000, as black smoke rose from burning tires and rioters threw rocks in the streets,...

2) Arab and Jew: wounded spirits in a promised land

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Shipler, David K

3) Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020

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Slater, Jerome

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The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but throughout the world. In the United States and Israel, the Israeli cause is treated as the more righteous one, albeit with important qualifiers and caveats. In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater takes...

4) Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

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Darwish, Nonie

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A political and personal odyssey from hatred to love
When Nonie Darwish was a girl of eight, her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel. A high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza, he was considered a shahid,a martyr for jihad.
Yet at an early age, Darwish developed a skeptical eye about her own Muslim culture and upbringing. Why the love of violence and hatred of Jews and Christians? Why...

5) The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

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Pressfield, Steven

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“A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory against daunting odds.”
—General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army, ret.; author of My Share of the Task
June 5, 1967. The...

6) What every American should know about the Middle East

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Rossi, M. L

7) Lawrence in Arabia: war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East

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Anderson, Scott

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A chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East.

8) The lemon tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East

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Tolan, Sandy

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Traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the parallel stories of Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria, and Bashir, a young Palestinian man who returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967.

9) House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

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Shadid, Anthony

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"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." — Philip Caputo, Washington Post
In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild...

10) Six days in June: the war that redefined the Middle East

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Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics...

11) Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East

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Russell, Gerard

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Offers the author's experiences with the practitioners of several rapidly disappearing minority religions in the Middle East, including Mandeans, Yazidis, Zoroastrians, Druze, Samaritans, Copts, and Kalasha, and how conditions in the region threaten themwith extinction.

12) The great war for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East

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Fisk, Robert

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Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It is a story that Robert Fisk has been reporting for over thirty years. His masterful narrative spans the most volatile regions of the Middle East, chronicling with both rage and compassion the death...

13) Burning issues: understanding and misunderstanding the Middle East : a 40-year chronicle

14) And then all hell broke loose: two decades in the Middle East

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Engel, Richard

15) The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East

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Rogan, Eugene L

16) The mirage of peace: understanding the never-ending conflict in the Middle East

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Aikman, David

17) A line in the sand: the Anglo-French struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948

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Barr, James

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Uses recently declassified French and British government documents to describe how the two countries secretly divided the Middle East during World War I and the effect these mandates had on local Arabs and Jews.

18) The lost history of Christianity: the thousand-year golden age of the church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia- and how it died

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Jenkins, Philip

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A lost history revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China.

19) Dreaming of Baghdad

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Zangana, Haifa

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“With passion and commitment,” an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).

In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader,...

20) Black wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the Middle East

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Ghattas, Kim

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"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"-- Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. Ghattas weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to show how the 1979 Iranian revolution-- fueled by American policy-- fed intolerance,...