MidEastbib

Saudi Arabia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Gulf Arab States

Al Munajjed, Mona. Women in Saudi Arabia Today.

Bronson, Rachel. Thicker Than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia

Citino, Nathan J. From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa’ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations

Clark, Victoria. Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

Cordesman, Anthony. Kuwait: Recovery and Security After the Gulf War

Cordesman, Anthony H. Saudi Arabia: Guarding the Desert Kingdom

Cordesman, Anthony. Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-First Century (2 vols.)

Davidson, Christopher. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

Fandy, Mamoun. Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent

Ghubash, Hussein. The Islamic Democratic Tradition

Gold, Dore. Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

Goldberg, Jacob. The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia

Halliday, Fred. Arabia Without Sultans

Hart, Parker T. Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership

Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979

Henderson, Simon. After King Fahd: Succession in Saudi Arabia

Herb, Michael. All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies

Kanovsky, Eliyahu. Oil Prices and the Saudi Arabian Economy

Kechichian, Joseph A. Succession in Saudi Arabia

Lacey, Robert. Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Luomi, Mari. The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change: Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability

Murawiec, Laurent. Princes of Darkness: The Saudi Assault on the West

Niblock, Tim. Saudi Arabia: Power, Legitimacy and Survival

Obaid, Naiwaf E. The Oil Kingdom at 100: Petroleum Policymaking in Saudi Arabia

Safran, Nadav. Saudi Arabia: the Ceaseless Quest for Security

Saunders, David. Dubai: The Arabian Dream

Schlumberger, Oliver., ed. Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes

Schwartz, Stephen. The Two Faces of Islam: the House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror

Teitelbaum, Joshua. Holier Than Thou: Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Opposition

Trofimov, Yaroslav. The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda

Valeri, Marc. Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State

Vogel, Frank E. Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia

Wilson, Rodney. Economic Development in Saudi Arabia

Jordan

Glubb, John Bagott. A Soldier With the Arabs

Knowles, Warwick. Jordan Since 1989: A Study in Political Economy

Massad, Joseph A. Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan

Milton-Edwards, Beverley and Peter Hinchcliffe. Jordan: A Hashemite Legacy

Satloff, Robert B. From Hussein to Abdullah: Jordan in Transition

Susser, Asher. Jordan: Case Study of a Pivotal State

Lebanon

Dagher, Carole H. “Bring Down the Walls:” Lebanon’s Post-War Challenge

Fino, Kais M. Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate

Harik, Judith Palmer. Hezbollah: The Changing Face of Terrorism

Jaber, Hala. Hezbollah: Born With a Vengeance

Johnson, Michael. All Honorable Men: the Social Origins of War in Lebanon

Levitt, Matthew. Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

Malik, Habib C. Between Damascus and Jerusalem: Lebanon and Middle East Peace

Najam, Tom Pierre. Lebanon: The Politics of a Penetrated Society

Rabinovich, Itamar. The War for Lebanon

Randal, Jonathan. The Tragedy of Lebanon: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers

Ryan, Curtis R. Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah

Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion

Salam, Nawaf A. Options for Lebanon

Young, Michael. The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle

Libya

Bowen, Wyn Q. Libya and Nuclear Proliferation: Stepping Back from the Brink

Chorin, Ethan. Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution

Sudan

Johnson, Douglas H. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars

Lesch, Anne M. The Sudan—Contested National Identities

Natsios, Andrew S. Sudan, South Sudan & Darfur

Petterson, Donald. Inside Sudan

O’Ballance, Edgar. Sudan, Civil War, and Terrorism

Sidahmed, Abdel Salam and Alsir Sidahmed. Sudan

Warburg, Gabriel. Islam, Sectarianism, and Politics in the Sudan Since the Mahdiyya

Syria

Drysdale, Alaisdar, and Raymond A. Hinnebusch. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process

Hashemi, Nader and Danny Poste4l, eds. The Syria Dilemma

Heydemann, Steven. Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict 1946-1970

Heydemann, Steven, and Reinoud Leenders, eds. Middle East Authoritarianisms: Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran

Hinnebusch, Raymond. Syria: Revolution from Above

Lesch, David. Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad

Lefvre, Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Leverett, Flynt. Inheriting Syria: Bashar’s Trial By Fire.

Maoz, Moshe. Modern Syria: from Ottoman Rule to Pivotal Role in the Middle East

Seale, Patrick. The Struggle for Syria: A Study of Postwar Arab Politics

Van Dam, Nikolaos. The Struggle for Power in Syria: Politics and Society Under Asad and the Ba’ath Party

Turkey

Altunisik, Meliha Benli and Ozlem Tur Kavli. Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change

Atasoy, Yildiz. Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalisation in a Muslim State

Aydinli, Esel. Turkey and the PKK: Parameters of the Post-Ocalan Era

Finkel, Andrew. Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know

Jacoby, Tim. Social Power and the Turkish State

Jenkins, Gareth. Context and Circumstance: The Turkish Military in Politics

Jung, Dietrich and Wolfgang Piccoli. Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East

Kayali, Hasan. Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire

Kedourie, Sylvia. Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic

Kinzer, Stephen. Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds

Kramer, Heinz. A Changing Turkey; The Challenge to Europe and the United States

Kuru, Ahmet T. and Alfred Stepan, eds. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Lewis, Bernard. The Emergence of Modern Turkey

Rubin, Barry and Kemal Kirisci, eds. Turkey in World Politics: An Emerging Multiregional Power

Rubin, Barry and Metin Heper, eds. Political Parties in Turkey

Rubin, Barry and Ali Çarkoglu., eds. Religion and Politics in Turkey

Ugeur, Mehmet and Nergis Canefe, eds. Turkey and European Integration

White, Jenny. Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

Arab North Africa and the Horn of Africa

Alexander, Christopher. Tunisia.

Bonner, Michael, Megan Reif, and Mark Tessler, eds. Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria

DeWaal, Alex, ed. Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa

Entelis, John P. ed. Islam, Democracy and the State in North Africa

Gould, St. John. Morocco

Jalata, Asafa. State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East Africa: the Horn’s Dilemma

Joffe, George, Algeria: The Failed Revolution

King, Stephen J. Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia

Quandt, William B. Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria’s Transition from Authoritarianism

The Israel-Arab Conflict

Abbas, Mahmoud. The Road to Oslo

Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace

Avneri, Arieh. The Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land Settlement and the Arabs 1878-1948

Ben-Gurion, David. My Talks With Arab Leaders

Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land

Benvenisti, Meron. City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem

Bethel, Nicholas, The Palestine Tragedy

Biger, Gideon. The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947

Bishara, Marwan. Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid; Prospects for Resolving the Conflict [a Palestinian perspective critical of the assumptions behind the Oslo Accord of 1993]

Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories [2015]

Carey, Roane, ed. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid

Cypel, Sylvain. Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse

Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict

Efrat, Elisha. The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation and Disengagement

Flapan, Simcha. Zionism and the Palestinians

Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem

Gazit, Shlomo. Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories

Gelber, Yoav. Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem

Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict Over Palestine

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (eighth edition)

Gorenberg, Gershom. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount

Gorenberg, Gershom. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements 1967-1977

Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine

Heller, Mark, and Nusseibeh, Sari, No Drums, No Trumpets: A Two-State Solution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Heller, Mark. A Palestinian State: the Implications for Israel.

Heller, Mark and Rosemary Hollis, eds. Israel and the Palestinians: Israeli Policy Options

Israeli, Raphael. Fundamentalist Islam and Israel: Essays in Interpretation

Karsh, Efraim and P.R. Kamaraswary, eds. Israel, the Hashemites, and the Palestinians: the Fateful Triangle

Khalidi, Walid. From Haven to Conquest

Kimche, Jon. Seven Fallen Pillars: The Middle East 1915-1950

Kimche, Jon and David Kimche. Both Sides of the Hill

Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians

Kurzman, Dan. Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War

La Guardia, Anton. War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for the Promised Land

Laqueur, Walter. The Road to War: The Origins of the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967

Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948.

Lockman, Zachary and Joel Beinin, eds. Intifada: the Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation

Luft, Gail. Jerusalem’s Holy Places and the Peace Process

Lustick, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State

Makovsky, David. Making Peace With the PLO: The Rabin Government’s Road to the Oslo Accord

Mandel, Neville. The Arabs and Zionists Before World War I

Maoz, Moshe and Sari Nusseibeh, et al. eds. Jerusalem—Points of Friction—and Beyond

Maoz, Moshe and Avraham Sela, eds. The PLO and Israel—From Armed Conflict to Political Solution, 1964-1994

Mayer, Tamar and Suleiman A. Mourad, eds. Jerusalem: Idea and Reality

McCarthy, Justin. The Population of Palestine: Population Statistics of the Late Ottoman Period and the Mandate

McDowall, David. Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond

Miller, Jennifer. Inheriting the Holy Land: An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East

Morris, Benny. The Birth of The Palestine Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. For a rebuttal see Shabtai Teveth, “The Palestine Refugee Problem and its Origins.” Middle Eastern Studies 26, 2 (April 1990), pp. 214-49.

Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

Nasser, Gamal Abdel. The Truth About the Palestine War

Netanyahu, Binyamin. A Durable Peace: Israel and its Place Among the Nations

O’Malley, Padraig. The Two-State Delusion

Oren, Michael B.. Six Days of War: June 1967

Pappe, Ilan, ed. The Israel/Palestine Question.

Peres, Shimon. Battling for Peace

Rabinovich, Itamar. Roads Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations

Rabinovich, Itamar. The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations

Rabinovich, Itamar. Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs 1948-2003

Rabinovich, Itamar. The Lingering Conflict: Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East 1948-2012

Rabil, Robert G. Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel, and Lebanon

Raz, Avi. The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

Rogan, Eugene L., and Avi Shlaim, eds. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948

Rothstein, Robert L., Moshe Maoz, Khalil Shikaki, eds. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Oslo and the Lessons of Failure

Rubin, Barry, The Arab States and Palestine

Rubin, Barry. The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947

Safran, Nadav, From War to War: The Arab-Israeli Confrontation 1948-1967

Said, Edward. Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process

Said, Edward. The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After

Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine

Savir, Uri. The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East

Schiff, Ze’ev and Ehud Yaari. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising, Israel’s Third Front

Schiff, Ze’ev and Ehud Yaari. Israel’s Lebanon War

Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Sher, Gilead. The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations 1999-2001

Shlaim. Avi. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine

Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Sneh, Ephraim. Navigating Perilous Waters: An Israeli Strategy for Peace and Security

Sykes, Christopher. Crossroads to Israel

Tamari, Samar, ed. Palestine Refugee Negotiations: From Madrid to Oslo II

Telhami, Shibley. Power and Leadership: The Path to the Camp David Accords

Teveth, Shabtai. Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs

Thomas, Baylis. The Dark Side of Zionism: the Quest for Security Through Dominance

Tilley, Virginia Q. The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough Plan for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock

Wasserstein, Bernard. The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict

Wasserstein, Bernard. Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (second edition 2002)

The Iran-Iraq Conflict

Chubin, Shahram, and Charles Tripp. Iran and Iraq at War

O’Ballance, Edgar. The Gulf War

The “Arab Spring”

Ajami, Fouad. The Syrian Rebellion

Ayoob, Mohammed. Will the Middle East Implode?

Bayat, Asef. Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Changed the Middle East

Burns, Nicholas and Jonathan Price, eds., The Arab Revolutions and American Policy

Muasher, Marwan. The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism

Nouheid, Lin and Alex Warren. A Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era.

Owen, Roger, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life

Starr, Stephen. Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising

U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Ajami, Fouad. The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq

Ansari, Ali M. Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East

Bass, Warren. Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance

Bill, James A. The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations

Bodansky, Yossef. The High Cost of Peace: How Washington’s Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism

Carothers, Thomas and Marina Ottaway, eds. Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East.

Carpenter, Ted Galen, ed. America Entangled: The Persian Gulf Crisis and its Consequences

Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians

Chomsky, Noam. Middle East Illusions

Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy

Citino, Nathan J. From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa’ud, and the Making of U.S.-Saudi Relations

Clarke, Richard. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror

Cottam, Richard W. Iran and the United States: A Cold War Case Study

Crist, David. The Twilight War : the Secret History of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

Darwish, Adel and Shahram Chubin. Unholy Babylon: The Secret History of Saddam’s War

Diamond, Larry. Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

Feldman, Noah. After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy

Finley, Paul. They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby

Freedman, Lawrence. A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East.

Freedman, Lawrence and Efraim Karsh. The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order

Gendzier, Irene. Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958

Gerges, Fawaz A. America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests?

Goldberg, Jacob, Mark Heller, and Steven Spiegel, eds. The U.S.-Soviet Competition in the Middle East. (Includes S. Lakoff, “The Reagan Doctrine and the Middle East.”)

Korn, David A. Assassination in Khartoum

Graubard, Stephen. Mr. Bush’s War

Green, Stephen. Living By the Sword: America and Israel in the Middle East, 1968-87

Haselkorn, Avigdor. The Continuing Storm: Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence

Hawthorne, Amy W. Democracy Deficit: U.S. Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Arab World

Henderson, Simon. Reluctant Allies: U.S. Policy Toward the Conservative Arab States of the Persian Gulf

Hilsman, Roger. George Bush v. Saddam Hussein: Military Success, Political Failure

Hinnebusch, Raymond, and Anoushirivan Ehteshami, eds. The Foreign Policies of Middle East States

Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East

Laham, Nicholas. Selling AWACS to Saudi Arabia: The Reagan Administration and the Balancing of America’s Competing Interests in the Middle East

Lenczowski, George. American Presidents and the Middle East

Lesch, David W. The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment (Third Edition)

Lippmann, Thomas W. Inside the Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia

Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet

Migdal, Joel S. Shifting Sands: the United States in the Middle East

Miller, Judith and Laurie Mylroie. Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf

Moore, John Norton. Crisis in the Gulf: Enforcing the Rule of Law

Murden, Simon W. Islam, the Middle East, and the New Global Hegemony

Mylroie, Laurie. Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against America

Niblock, Tim. “Pariah States” and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan

Oren, Michael B. Ally: My Journey Across the Amerkican-Israeli Divide

Palmer, Monte and Princess. At the Heart of Terror: Islam, Jihadists, and America’s War on Terrorism

Pollack, Kenneth M. The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America

Pollack, Kenneth M. Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

Posner, Gerald L. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection

Quandt, William. Peace Process; American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (third ed.)

Radosh, Allis and Ronald. A Safe Haven [How Truman came to recognize Israel]

Randal, Jonathan. Osama: The Making of a Terrorist

Record, Jeffrey. Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf War

Ricks, Thomas. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Ritter, Scott. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem—Once and For All

Rubin, Barry. Paved With Good Intentions: The American Experience in Iran

Rubin, Barry and Judith M. Colp. Anti-American Terrorism in the Middle East: A Documentary Reader

Scales, Robert H. Certain Victory

Sciolino, Elaine. The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis

Shaked, Haim and Itamar Rabinovitch, eds. The Middle East and the United States (1980)

Smith, Jean Edward. George Bush’s War

Spiegel, Stephen. The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America’s Middle East Policy from Truman to Reagan

Takeyh, Ray. The United States and Libya: Coexistence or Containment?

Tucker, Robert W. and David C. Hendrickson. The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America’s Purpose

Yetiv, Steve A. Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision Making and the Persian Gulf War

Williams, Lt. Col. Richard A. U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation

Wittes, Tamara Cofman. Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy.

Woodward, Bob. Plan of Attack

Wurmser, David. Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein