It is important for individuals to study the Mideast conflict to a level where the complexities of the situation begin to start to make sense. It takes a fair amount of time and commitment but the effort is very much worthwhile. The information that we receive from the press is not enough to fully understand the history, the religions, and the political issues that need to be presented by experts in the field from the many sides that are involved in this conflict.
None of these books present a full or a fair picture of the issues. The reader needs to find a set of books that will provide enough information being presented from a diverse group of viewpoints to begin to create an informed and balanced opinion on the conflict.
We have set out a number of books that have been recommended by some of the people that have been involved in the Mideast Peace Project and a large number of books were obtained from experts gathered by NPR and their readership.
Books and hyperlinks for WPP website resource center: To order the books or find out more about them just double click onto the authors name in blue and you will be hooked up to the Barnes and Noble or Amazon's website. Good reading!
Books:
- All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Walid Khalidi
- In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale Amitav Ghosh
- Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler
- The Arab-Israeli Dilemma 3rd ed Fred J. (fred John) Khouri
- A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani
- A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time Howard M. Sachar
- The Battle for God 1 BALLANTI Karen Armstrong
- Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour 1st Ballantine Books trade ed Barbara Tuchman
- Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question Edward W. Said
- Blood Brothers Elias Chacour
- The Body & the Blood: The Holy Land at the Turn of a New Millenium: A Reporter's Journey Charles M. Sennott
- Broken Bridge Lynne Reid Banks
- Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege Amira Hass
- Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 Efraim Karsh Inari Karsh
- Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India Ashutosh Varshney
- Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 Efraim Karsh
- Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & The Palestinians Noam Chomsky
- From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter Thomas L. Friedman
- From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine Joan Peters
- The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development by Sara M. Roy
- Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye
- A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest for Judaism, Christianity and Islam Karen Armstrong
- Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World Karen Armstrong
- Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East Marc Gopin
- House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood Adina Hoffman
- Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict Norman G. Finkelstein
- The Innocents Abroad: Or The New Pilgrims Progress Mark Twain
- In the Land of Israel Amos Oz
- Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History Keith W. Whitelam
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World AVI Shlaim
- Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America Martin S. Kramer
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years Israèel Shahak
- Journey to Jerusalem Grace Halsell
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years Israèel Shahak
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
- Bernard Lewis
- The Muslim Discovery of Europe (Pbk) Bernard Lewis
- Never Mind : Twenty Poems and a Story (Ibis Editions) Taha Muhammad Ali
- Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
(Anchor Book Trade PB) Geraldine Brooks
- O Jerusalem! (Touchstone) Larry Collins
- One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate Tom Segev
- Palestine Joe Sacco
- Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 4TH Charles D. Smith
- Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict Nadim N. Rouhana
- The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present by Douglas B. Ball
- Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process Edward W. Said
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Owl Books) David Fromkin
- The Physician Noah Gordon
- Power Politics Arundhati Roy
- Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (Vintage Books) Benny Morris
- The Road from Damascus: A Journey Through Syria Scott C. Davis
- Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East Wilbur C. Eveland
- A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood Raymond P. Scheindlin
- Stations Of Desire: Love Elegies From Ibn 'Arabi And New Poems (Ibis Editions) by Muhyiddin I. Arabi, Michael A. Sells
- Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine Raja Shehadeh
- To Know a Woman Amos Oz<
- They Dare to Speak out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby Paul Findley
- Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror Stephen Schwarz
- Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World (Revised) Thomas W. Lippman
- Unholy Wars John K. Cooley
- Wild Thorns (American) Sahar Khalifeh
- The Yellow Wind : With a New Afterword by the Author David Grossman.
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