Bibliographie Essay ••• 523view, see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/lebtoc.html; for a
Jewish critique, see http://www.doublestandards.org/rosel.html; see also http://
http://www.specialoperations.com/mout/pfg.html, and http://www.mediamonitors.net/
timllewellyn3.html on the Sabra and Shatila massacre,
The raising of women's consciousness has added a major dimension to the study
of the Middle East. You may start with Géraldine Brooks's Nine Parts of Desire: The
Hidden World of Islamic Women (New York: Anchor Books, 1995); then read Leila
Ahmed's more scholarly Women and Gender in Islam, cited earlier. Two antholo¬
gies are Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, eds., Women in the Muslim World (Cam¬
bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978); and Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and
Basima Qattan Bezirgan, eds., Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak (Austin: Uni¬
versity of Texas Press, 1977). See also Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, éd., Women and
the Family in the Middle East (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985); Fatima
Mernissi, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (Reading, MA: Addison-
Wesley, 1992); and Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker, Social History of
Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999).
Regarding the Palestinians of this era, see Julie Peteet, Gender in Crisis: Women and
the Palestinian Resistance Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
The Association for Middle East Women's Studies Web site is http://www.amews
.org/. See also, http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/society.htm.
CHAPTER 20The basic book on prewar Iraqi politics is Samir al-Khalil [pseud.], Republic of Fear:
The Inside Story of Saddams Iraq, 3rd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998). Of the many books that appeared on the Gulf War and its immediate after¬
math, we suggest starting with Deborah Amos, Lines in the Sand: Desert Storm and
the Remaking of the Arab World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992); Alberto Bin,
Richard Hill, and Archer Jones, Desert Storm: A Forgotten War (Westport, CT:
Praeger, 1998); Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb, War in the Gulf 1990-1991:
The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univer¬
sity Press, 1997); and Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian
Gulf War (New York: Times Books, 1993). On Kuwait, see two books by Jill Crystal:
Kuwait (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), and Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and
Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). The
PBS Web site on the Gulf War is http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/.
Books on the first intifada include Samih K. Farsoun, Palestine and the Palestinians
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); Robert Hunter, The Palestinian Uprising: A War by
Other Means (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991); Don Peretz, Intifada:
The Palestinian Uprising (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990); and Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud