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Current Issue: Background on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Resources for a better understanding of the crisis in the Middle East.

Books

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 2001. AU Main Library DS63.2.G7 F76 2001

Laqueur, Walter., and Dan Schueftan. The Israel-Arab Reader : A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, 8th ed. New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016, Link for AU community members.

Morris, Benny. 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Link for AU community members.

Segev, Tom, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999 (translated by Haim Watzman, 2000). AU Main Library: DS126 .S3851 2000

Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d10hf6.

Articles

United Nations, Historical Timeline, The Question of Palestine, https://www.un.org/unispal/history

Allison Meakem, The Geopolitics of Palestine, Explained, Foreign Policy (Oct. 10, 2023, 7:00 PM), https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/10/israel-palestine-conflict-gaza-hamas-war-geography-history/

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a reading list, The Economist (Oct. 18, 2023), https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/10/18/the-israel-palestine-conflict-a-reading-list