Middle East Conflict Reference Library

Publisher U·X·L

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eBook

2nd Edition 1st Edition

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U·X·L

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Edition

2

Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781414486079

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Grade Level

6th Grade - 10th Grade

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Overview

This title provides a comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events, and documents that are key to understanding the complex relationships of the countries and cultures of the Middle East. We have fully updated each of the three components (Almanac, Biography, and Primary Sources), as well as expanded the coverage of the set to include such topics as the Arab Spring.
Features & Benefits

Updated and new biographies.

300 full-color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps.

Student friendly features: Reader's Guide

Timeline

Words to Know

Research and Activity Ideas.

We have added additional new Primary Sources, biographies, and historical coverage of the Arab Spring. All entries from the first edition have been updated.

Features: Reader's Guide, Timeline, Words to Know defined, Research and Activity Ideas, Country Facts.
What's New

Includes updated and new Almanac entries.
1. The Ancient Middle East: From the First Civilizations to the Crusades.
2. The Ottoman Empire: 1299 to 1923.
3. Forging New Nations from the Ottoman Empire: 1918 to 1950.
4. Other Rising Middle East Nations in the Twentieth Century.
5. Palestine and Zionist Settlement: Nineteenth Century to 1948.
6. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1948 to 1973.
7. Israeli-Palestinian Relations: 1973 to 2011.
8. The Palestinian Authority: 2004 to 2011.
9. Syria and Lebanon: 1936 to 1990.
10. The Rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon: 1990 to 2011.
11. The Iran-Iraq War: 1980 to 1988.
12. The Gulf Wars: 1991 to 2011.
13. Terrorism Based in the Middle East.
14. Conflicts Within: Repressive Governments of the Middle East in the Early Twenty-First Century.
15. The Arab Spring: 2011.
16. Western Views of the Middle East.

BIOGRAPHIES VOLUME:
Mahmoud Abbas (Palestine).
Abu Nidal (Palestine).
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran).
Yasser Arafat (Palestine).
Hanan Ashrawi (Palestine).
Hafez Assad (Syria).
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Turkey).
Menachem Begin(Israel).
David Ben-Gurion (Israel).
Osama bin Laden (Saudi Arabia).
Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine).
Mohammed ElBaradei (Egypt).
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey).
Faisal ibn Abd al Aziz ibn Saud (Saudi Arabia).
Pierre Gemayel (Lebanon).
Theodor Herzl (Hungary).
Amin al-Husayni (Palestine).
Hussein I (Jordan).
Saddam Hussein (Iraq).
Meir Kahane (Israel).
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Iran).
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran).
Tzipporah Livni (Israel).
Golda Meir (Israel).
Hosni Mubarak (Egypt).
Hasan Nasrallah (Lebanon).
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt).
Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel).
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Iran).
Shimon Peres (Israel).
Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi (Libya).
Yitzhak Rabin (Israel).
Anwar Sadat (Egypt).
Herbert Louis Samuel (Great Britain).
Ariel Sharon (Israel).

PRIMARY SOURCES VOLUME:
1. Vying for Power: Dividing Palestine.
The Peel Commission Report. The Biltmore Program. The Alexandria Protocol.
2. Forming a State: The Birth of Israel and the Arab Response.
Declaration of the E
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