The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

Palestinians and fifteen Israelis will die in subsequent rioting, the worst of which takes place in Ramallah. September 26:The T ...

The Islamic Group says the attack is in retaliation for the U.S. imprisonment of the group’s founder, Shaykh Umar Abd al-Rahman, ...

November 20:In limited compliance with the Wye River agreement, Israel withdraws from about 220 square miles in the vicinity of ...

June 29:Abdallah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, is convicted of trea- son and sentenced to death. After legal ap ...

June 18 :The UN Security Council endorses a report by the secretary-general veri- fying Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon. Hizbal ...

receives a sentence of life in prison. The court acquits a second defendant on all charges. February 6:Ariel Sharon, of the Liku ...

violence, including a December 2 suicide bombing in Haifa that kills fifteen bus passengers. December 5:After a meeting in Bonn, ...

September 19:After a Palestinian suicide bomber kills five people in Tel Aviv, Israel launches a new military operation in Ramal ...

March 20:Under strong U.S. pressure, Palestinian leader Arafat appoints Mahmoud Abbas, a long-time aide, as the first prime mini ...

October 16:The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 1511, endorsing the interim Iraqi Governing Council and calling on other co ...

of investigations and news reports that result in worldwide outrage about the treat- ment of Iraqi detainees by some U.S. prison ...

January 30:Iraq holds its first parliamentary elections since the ouster of Saddam Hus- sein nearly two years earlier. The Unite ...

September 18:Afghanistan holds its first parliamentary elections under the new polit- ical system in place since early 2004. All ...

February 1:Meeting in London, international donors agree to provide more than $10 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the next fi ...

weeks and increase political tensions between anti- and pro-Syrian factions in Lebanon. December 6:The Iraq Study Group issues a ...

April 18:More than 230 people are killed, or found dead, from violence in Iraq. More than 180 of the deaths occur in Shiite neig ...

June 17:A suicide bomber attacks a police academy in Kabul, killing thirty-five people, most of them police instructors, in one ...

699 One could spend several lifetimes studying the literature about the Middle East and still only have skimmed the surface. Thi ...

Congressional Quarterly. The Iran-Contra Puzzle.Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1987. ———. The Middle East.11th ed. W ...

Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Pollack, ...