The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

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The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History John Felton A Division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. Washington, D.C. ...

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v About the Author xii Preface xiii Introduction xv Chapter 1: Foundations of the Contemporary Middle East Overview 3 Part I: Po ...

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xii John Felton is a freelance writer specializing in foreign affairs. He has reported on U.S. foreign policy for CQ Weeklyand w ...

xiii The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary Historycenters around speeches and diplomatic agreements, UN and other resoluti ...

only in their original (non-English) language. These latter documents have been retrieved from the most reliable secondary sourc ...

xv For the better part of a century, the Middle East consistently has been a focal point of armed conflict and political tension ...

xvi INTRODUCTION in some of the self-serving explanations for the region’s problems as developed, notably, by Islamists, ranging ...

INTRODUCTION xvii much of the rest of the region. Once the center of a mighty Persian Empire, Iran spent much of the twentieth c ...

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Foundations of the Contemporary Middle East The Arab League Document: The Charter of the Arab League The Partition of Palesti ...