A Concise History of the Middle East

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Yaari, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising; Israel's Third Front (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1990). A broader perspective is provided by Glenn Frankel, Beyond the
Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1994) and a less sanguine view by Geoffrey Kemp and Jeremy Pressman,
Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace (Washington, DC:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997). For an overview, see William B.
Quandt, Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967,
rev. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Israel's view of the intifada is
on the Web at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intifada.html. A
site that is somewhat fairer to the Palestinians is http://www.merip.org/palestine-
israel_primer/intifada-87-pal-isr-primer.html. For the Oslo Accords, see http://www
.iap.org/oslo.htm, and http://www.odaction.org/Oslotrouble.html; and for Oslo II
http^/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/interimtoc.html and http://www
.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/Oslo-2.html.
On the failure of the Camp David talks, see Bill Clinton's My Life (New York: Al¬
fred A. Knopf, 2004), and Dennis Ross's The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the
Fight for Middle East Peace (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004), which tend to
blame Yasir Arafat. See also Clayton E. Swisher, The Truth About Camp David: The
Untold Story of the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process (New York: Nation
Books, 2004). A CNN backgrounder before the summit is on the Web at http://
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/campdavid2000/story/overview/. A pro-Israel ac¬
count can be found at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/campdavid2000/
story/overview/. Articles favoring the Palestinians are at http://www.wrmea.com/
html/faq.htm and http://www.nybooks.com/articles/14380.
On Syria, see Nikelaos van Dam, The Struggle for Power in Syria (London: I. B.
Tauris, 1996); and Eyal Ziser, Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition (New York: NYU
Press, 2001). On Iraq, see Phebe Marr, The Modern History of Iraq, 2nd ed. (Boulder:
Westview Press, 2004); and Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq, 2nd ed. (New York and
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). On Lebanon, see Charles Winslow,
Lebanon: War and Politics in a Fragmented Society (London and New York: Rout-
ledge, 1996); and on Jordan we recommend Philip Robins, A History of Jordan
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Egypt in the 1990s is described by
Mary Anne Weaver, Portrait of Egypt (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999);
Geneive Abdo, No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000); and Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egypt, Islam, and Democracy:
Twelve Critical Essays, 2nd ed. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002).
The Kurdish problem in Turkey is covered in Henri J. Barkey, Turkey's Kurdish
Question (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998); and Robert Olson, ed., The
Kurdish National Movement in the 1990s (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press,
1996). On the Web, see http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/turkey_background
_kurds.htm. Turkey's oft-postponed admission to the European Union is analyzed
in Mehmet Ugur, The European Union and Turkey: An Anchor-Credibility Dilemma