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My Life (New York: Dell, 1976); and Boutros Boutros-Ghali in Egypt's Road to
Jerusalem (New York: Random House, 1997).
OPEC and Middle Eastern oil attracted much attention after 1973. See
Dankwart Rustow and John R. Mugno, OPEC: Success and Prospects (New York:
New York University Press, 1976); Ragaei El Mallakh, éd., OPEC: Twenty Years and
Beyond (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982); and Benjamin Shwadran, Middle Eastern
Oil Crises Since 1973 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986). The OPEC Web site is
http://www.opec.org/.
The 1978 peace talks are covered from various angles in Jimmy Carter, Keeping
Faith: Memoirs of a President (New York: Bantam, 1982); Moshe Dayan, Break¬
through: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations (New York:
Knopf, 1982); Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel, The Camp David Accords (London and
Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986); William B. Quandt, Camp David: Peace¬
making and Politics (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1986); and Shibley
Telhami, Power and Leadership in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp
David Accords (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). Carter's role is
stressed at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/e_peace.html.
The text of the Camp David Accords are at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
jsource/Peace/camp_david_accords.html.
The best books we have seen so far on the Lebanese civil war are Latif Abul-
Husn, The Lebanese Conflict: Looking Inward (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1998);
Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation, rev. ed. (New York: Thunder's Mouth/Nation Books,
2002); Walid Khalidi, Conflict and Violence in Lebanon (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1979); and Itamar Rabinovich, The War for Lebanon, 1970-1985,
rev. ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985). A moving personal account is
Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir (New York: Persea Books,
1990). See also http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/pspa/conflict-resolution.html.

CHAPTER 19

Thanks to the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the cottage industry for Middle East spe¬
cialists is writing books about Islam and its resurgence; you can best start by read¬
ing the work of a nonspecialist, Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History (New
York: Modern Library, 2002). See also John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth
or Reality, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Yohanan Friedman,
Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith relations in the Muslim Tradition (Cam¬
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Michael Gilsenan, Recognizing Islam:
Religion and Society in the Modern Arab World, 2nd ed. (New York: I. B. Tauris,
2000); Ed Hotaling, Islam Without Illusions (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 2003); and Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000). Collections of modern Muslim writings include John J.