Bibliographie Essay • 517The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987); Zeev
Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1998); and two Web sites on Ben Gurion: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary
.org/jsource/biography/ben_gurion.html, and http://www.palestineremembered
.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/StoryôSS.html. On the Arab countries at this
time, consult Malek Mufti, Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Politics (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1996); and Matthew Eliot, "Independent Iraq": The
Monarchy and British Influence, 1941-1958 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1996). A Web
site on pan-Arabism is http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0837455.html.
On the background to the 1956 Suez Affair, see Erskine Childers, The Road to
Suez: A Study in Western-Arab Relations (London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1962); Sir An¬
thony Eden, The Suez Crisis of 1956 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968); Mohamed H.
Heikal, Cutting the Lion's Tail (New York: Arbor House, 1987); Keith Kyle, Suez
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1991); William Roger Louis and Roger Owen,
eds., Suez 1956: The Crisis and Its Consequences (New York: Oxford University Press,
1989); and a Web site http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDsuez.htm.
Gamal Abd al-Nasir and his policies are covered by Kirk Beattie, Egypt During
the Nasser Years (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994); R. Hrair Dekmejian, Egypt Un¬
der Nasir: A Study in Political Dynamics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1971); P. J. Vatikio-
tis, Nasser and His Generation (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979); Peter
Woodward, Nasser (London: Longman's, 1992); and at http://www.geocities.com/
CapitolHill/Lobby/5270/bio.htm. Nasir's Arab policies are treated sympathetically
in Charles D. Cremeans, The Arabs and the World: Nasser's Nationalist Policy (New
York: Praeger, 1963). Mohamed Heikal, The Cairo Documents (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1972), stresses Nasir's relations with foreign leaders. On his relations
with Washington, compare Miles Copeland [pseud.], The Game of Nations (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1969), with Wilbur Crane Eveland, Ropes of Sand: Amer¬
ica's Failure in the Middle East (London and New York: W. W. Norton, 1980). On
the dynamics of inter-Arab politics during this period, read sequentially Patrick
Seale, The Struggle for Syria: A Study of Postwar Arab Politics, 1945-1958, rev. ed.
(London: Tauris, 1987), and Malcolm H. Kerr, The Arab Cold War: Gamal Abd al-
Nasir and His Rivals, 1958-1970, 3rd ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1971).
Nasir's rival in Iraq is sympathetically treated by Uriel Dann, Iraq Under
Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963 (London: Pall Mall; New York: Praeger,
1969). Dann also wrote KingHusayn and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism: Jordan,
1955-1967 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Books on Jordan include
Kamal Salibi, The Modern History of Jordan (London: I. B. Tauris, 1993); and
Robert Satloff, From Abdullah to Husayn: Jordan in Transition (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1994). The standard account of Lebanon's 1958 civil war is
Fahim Qubain, Crisis in Lebanon (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1961).
A good survey of Syria is A. L. Tibawi, A Modern History of Syria, Including
Lebanon and Palestine (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969).