israel-arab conflicts

Discusses, in text and illustrations, the history and importance of the Middle East and the ethnic, religious, and political divisions which continue to be the source of conflict in the region.

Presents a series of questions and answers that seeks to explain the origins and conflict behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, failed attempts at peace, and its significance to the rest of the world.

Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.

Examines the historical background between the Israeli and Palestinian conflicts, and describes how it began, how the conflicts affect the Middle East and the rest of the world, and efforts to bring peace to the region.

Chronicles the thirty-year Arab-Israeli peace process, analyzing the personalities of the key individuals involved, and featuring interviews with over eighty participants in the military and political negotiations between Egypt and Israel.

Examines Arab views of America drawing on interviews with people throughout the Arab world. Focuses on political issues such as opinions about American support for Israel and the American occupation of Iraq. Also discusses views of American media, attitudes, and character.

Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.

The authors recount their journey through Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem, covering their personal conversations with leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas; sheikhs; ayatollahs; and Osama bin Laden's brothers, from whom they learned a great deal about the complexities of conflict in the Middle East.

Introduces students to Israel, with information on the region's history, people, culture, geography, and conflicts.

Argues that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians traces back not to the British Mandate, when the United Kingdom assumed control over Palestine from 1920 to 1948, but instead to the Ottoman period when the dissent began, and when the means for dealing with that dissent were created.