Books

Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango (The Overlook Press, NY: 1999)

Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age by R. Stephen Humphreys (University of California Press, CA: 2001)

Building a Successful Palestinian State by Kenneth I. Shine and Steven N. Simon (Rand Publishing, CA: 2007)

The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East by Walid Phares (Threshold Editions, NY: 2010)

Coptic Egypt by Jill Kamil (The American University Cairo Press, Cairo, Egypt: 1996)

Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds by Stephen Kinzer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY: 2001)

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman (Anchor Books, NY: 1990)

Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine by Jonathan Schanzer (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008)

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani (MJF Books, NY: 1991)

The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries by Glenn E. Perry (Prentice Hall, NJ: 1983)

A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall (I.B. Tauris, NY: 1997)

Sulha: Palestinian Traditional Peacemaking Process by Elias J. Jabbour (House of Hope Publications, Shefar’Am, Israel: 1996)

Magazines and Journals

International Journal of Middle East Studies, edited by Juan R. I. Cole (Cambridge University Press, NY: 2003)

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, edited by John L. Esposito & David Thomas (Carfax Publishing, PA: 2003)

Journal of Palestine Studies, edited by Hisham Sharabi (University of California Press, CA: 2003)

Middle East International Review, produced by Winning Communications (Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 2003)

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, edited by Richard H. Curtiss (American Education Trust, Washington, D.C.: 2003)

Videos

Blood and Tears. Image/Think Films, 2006.

www.amazon.com/Blood-Tears-Abdel-aziz-Rantisi/dp/B000P29GJY

Byzantium: The Lost Empire, by John Romer. Top Documentary Films, 2000.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/byzantium-lost-empire/

Egypt's Golden Empire. PBS, 2002.

www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1402878&keywords=egypt%27s+golden+empire

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1998.

www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Man-Lawrence-After-Arabia/dp/B0024UNHSG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-video&qid=1306934387&sr=8-1

Israel's Shattered Dreams, by Victor Schonfeld. MPI Home Video, 1990.

www.amazon.com/Israels-Shattered-Dreams-Victor-Schonfeld/dp/6301694155/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1306934540&sr=8-3

The Middle East, 1963. National Archives and Records Administration, 2010.

www.amazon.com/The-Middle-East-1963/dp/B0050GCFR0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306933263&sr=8-1

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Questar Video, 2002.

www.questar1.com

Six Days in June: The War That Redefined the Middle East. PBS, 2007.

www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=2792235&cp=&sr=1&kw=six+days+in+june&origkw=Six+Days+in+June&parentPage=search&searchId=51914380794

Tales from Arab Detroit, by Joan Mandell. ACCESS & Olive Branch Productions, 1995.

www.arabfilm.com

Travels in Europe: Turkey. Small World Productions, 1995.

www.smarttravels.tv/

Websites

Al Jazeera (English)

http://english.aljazeera.net/

Middle East News—BBC World Service

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east

Middle East Newspapers and News Sites in English

www.world-newspapers.com/east.html

Middle East Religious Studies

Christianity (Orthodox)—www.rbsocc.org

Christianity (Protestant)—www.gospeloutreach.net

Christianity (Roman Catholic)—www.vatican.va

Islam (Shi'ite)—www.shia.org

Modern Judaism—www.jewfaq.org

Middle East Research and Information Project

www.merip.org

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

www.wrmea.com

Organizations and Associations

Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle EastP.O. Box 1086, Santa Barbara, CA 93102

www.ajpme.org

Campus Watch: Monitoring Middle East Studies on Campus1500 Walnut St., Suite 1050, Philadelphia, PA 19102

www.campus-watch.org

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

www.gcc-sg.org/eng

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

www.cair.com

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts UniversityCabot Intellectual Center, 160 Packard Ave., Medford, MA 02155

http://farescenter.tufts.edu

Middle East Studies Association of North America1219 N. Santa Rita Ave., The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

www.mesa.arizona.edu

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

www.opec.org

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