Hot Topic: Middle East Conflict

The recent escalation in violence between Israel and Lebanon is an episode in the nearly century old conflict between Israel and the surrounding Arab world.

Below you will find a list of books, articles and websites that will help you learn more about this perennially volatile region of the world.

Scars of war, wounds of peace: the Israeli-Arab tragedy
Shlomo Ben-Ami.
New York: Oxford University Press, ©2006.
956.9405/BEN

Israel : opposing viewpoints
John Woodward, book editor.
Detroit: Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, ©2005. YA 956.9405/ISRAEL

A concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Ian J. Bickerton, Carla L. Klausner.
4th ed., updated. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. 956.04/BICKERTON

We just want to live here : a Palestinian teenager, an Israeli teenager-- an unlikely friendship
Amal Rifa'i and Odelia Ainbinder with Sylke Tempel.
1st U.S. ed., New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003.
956.9442/RIFAI

From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman.
1st ed., New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.
327.56/FRIEDMAN

Why the Middle East Crisis Isn't Really About Terrorism. Beyer, Lisa; Crumley, Bruce; Waller, Douglas. Time. 8/7/2006, Vol. 168 Issue 6, p26-30, 5p, 5c; (AN 21767326)

Hate Thy Neighbor.(Cover; World)(war in the Middle East). Lisa Meyer. Time 168.4 (July 24, 2006): p24. (Opposing Viewpoints)

Barrage Reopens Wounds of a Fractured Beirut; [FINAL Edition] Anthony Shadid - Washington Post Foreign Service. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Jul 17, 2006. p. A. (ProQuest)

Escalation ripples through Middle East; [ALL Edition] Dan Murphy, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Mass.: Jul 14, 2006. p. 01 (ProQuest)

"Larger than a Party, yet Smaller than a State." Bryan R. Early. World Affairs, Winter 2006, Vol. 168 Issue 3, p115-128, 14p; (AN 20066685) (MasterFILE Premier)

The Arab-Israeli Dispute Causes Conflict in the Middle East. Beverley Milton-Edwards and Peter Hinchcliffe. The Middle East. Ed. Auriana Ojeda. Current Controversies Series. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2003. (Opposing Viewpoints)

The Question of Palestine (United Nations):
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/qpal/

Middle East Research and Information Project:
http://www.merip.org/

Global Connections: The Middle-East (PBS):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/index.html

The Israel Project:
http://www.theisraelproject.org/

Hamas (Council on Foreign Relations):
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/

World Factbook:

• Lebanon: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html
• Israel: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html
• Gaza Strip: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gz.html
• West Bank: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/we.html