522 • Bibliographie Essaythe Iranian Revolution; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/
e_hostage.html on the hostage crisis; http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/iraniraq
.htm on the Iran-Iraq War; and http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/
irancontra/irancon.html for the Iran-Contra affair.
Developments in the Arab states in the 1980s are covered in Saad Eddin
Ibrahim, The New Arab Social Order: A Study of the Impact of Oil (Boulder: West-
view Press, 1982); Malcolm Kerr and Sayyid Yassin, Rich and Poor States in the
Middle East: Egypt and the New Social Order (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982);
David Lamb, The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage, 2nd ed. (New York: Vintage,
2002); Kenan Makiya, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab
World (New York: W W. Norton, 1993); and Alan R. Taylor, The Arab Balance of
Power (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1982).
A scholarly but readable book on Egypt's late president is Raymond Hinne-
busch, Jr., Egyptian Politics Under Sadat, 2nd ed. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1988);
then read Kirk Beattie, Egypt During the Sadat Years (New York: Palgrave, 2000).
On Sadat's Syrian rival, read Patrick Seale, Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988), or Lisa Wedeen,
Ambiguities of Domination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). On Iraq,
see Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett, Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to
Dictatorship, rev. ed. (London: I. B. Tauris, 1991) and on the Web (current as of
1988) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iqtoc.html. A readable introduction to Saudi
Arabia is Sandra Mackey's The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom (New York:
NAL/Dutton, 1990).
Israel in the 1980s is covered well in Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem,
2nd ed. (New York: Anchor Books, 1995); Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel, trans.
Maurie Goldberg-Bartura (New York: Vintage Books, 1983); Don Peretz, The Gov¬
ernments and Politics of Israel, 3rd ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); David K.
Shipler, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, rev. ed. (New York: Pen¬
guin, 2002); Bernard Wasserstein, Israelis and Palestinians (New Haven: Yale Univer¬
sity Press, 2003); Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for the Israel's Soul
(New York: Basic Books, 2001); and Jan Selby, Water, Power, and Politics in the Mid¬
dle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New York and London: I. B. Tauris,
2003). In addition to works cited earlier by Gilmour and Rabinovich, books on Is¬
rael's invasion of Lebanon include George Ball, Error and Betrayal in Lebanon: An
Analysis of Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and the Implications for US-Israeli Relations
(Washington, DC: Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1984); Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud
Yaari, Israel's Lebanon War, trans. Ina Friedman (New York: Simon & Schuster,
1984); and Jonathan C. Randal, Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adven¬
turers, and the War in Lebanon (New York: Viking, 1983). The political aftermath is
extensively discussed in Robert O. Freedman, ed., The Middle East After the Israeli
Invasion of Lebanon (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1985). For Israel's