Middle East and North Africa

Articles/Periodical/Website

Afghanistan Analysts Network https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/

– Africa Center for Strategic Studies https://carnegie-mec.org/about/?lang=en

– Bergman, Ronen. The Hezbollah Connection

– Child, Steven. Granting Security? U.S. Security Assistance Programs and Political Stability in the Greater Middle East and Africa by Steven Childs

– Gopal, Anand. The Hell After ISIS (The Atlantic, May 2016)

– Middle East Institute. The Middle East Journal  https://www.mei.edu/education/middle-east-journal

– The Africa Report. Atlantic Council Middle East Initiatives  https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/middle-east-programs/

The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS (The New Yorker, Feb 2017)

– Worth, Robert. Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy (July 2020); Kidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot (Mar 2018); Aleppo After the Fall (May 2017); The Price of Loyalty in Syria (Jun 2013) (New York Time Magazine)

Books 

– Alhaji, A.F., Huettner, David. OPEC and World Crude Oil Markets from 1973 to 1994: Cartel, Oligopoly, or Competitive

– Aslan, Reza. No God but God

– Aswany, Alaa A.  The Yacoubian Building

– Axworthy, Lloyd. Revolutionary Iran

– Ayubi, Nazih N. Over-stating the Arab State

– Bergman, Ronan. Rise and Kill First

– Berkeley, Bill. The Gravers are Not Yet Full

– Blanford, Nicholas. Warriors of God

– Burke, Edmund. Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East

– Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City

– Chehabi, H.E., Linz, Juan J. Sultanistic Regimes

– Choukri, Mohamed. For Bread Alone

– Churchill, Winston. The River War

– Cohen, Hillel. 1929

– Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars

– Crist, David. The Twilight War

– Cronin, Stephanie. Armies and State-Building in the Modern Middle East

– Dickinson, Eerik. Spoken Libyan Arabic

– Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War

– Finkel, Caroline. Osman’s Dream

– Fisk, Robert. Pity the Nation

– Friedman, George. America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies

– Friedman, Matti. Pumpkin Flowers

– Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem

– Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace

– Gerges, Fawaz. Making the Arab World

– Ghattas, Kim. Black Wave

– Goldschmidt, Arthor., Davidson, Lawrence. A Concise History of the Middle East, Ninth Edition

– Habeck, Mary. Knowing the Enemy

– Haddad, Fanar. Sectarianism in Iraq

– Halevi, Yossi K. Like Dreamers

– Hamid, Shadi. Islamic Exceptionalism

– Hazelton, Lesley. After the Prophet

– Herbst, Jeffrey, States and Power in

– Holmboe, Knud. Desert Encounter

– Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace

– Hourani, Alberg. A History of the Arab People

– Ibrahim, Saad E. Egypt, Islam and Democracy

– Khalifa, Khaled. Death is Hard Work; No Knives in the Kitchens of this City; In Praise of Hatred

– King Abdulluh II of Jordan. Our Last Best Chance

– Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah’s Men

– Lacher, Wolfram. Libya’s Fragmentation

– Ladwig, Walter. The Forgotten Front

– Lawrence, Scott. Lawrence in Arabia

– Lohmeier, Matthew. Irresistible Revolution

– Long, Baudouin. L’Égypte de Moubarak à Sisi

– Mahfouz, Jamal. Cairo Trilogy

– Mahjoub, Jamal. A Line in the River

– Martell, Peter. First Raise a Flag

– Masri, Safwan. Tunisia: an Arab Anomaly

– Matar, Hisham. The Return

– Morris, Jan. Oman: “Sultan in Oman”

– Morton, Michael Q. Buraimi

– Mottahhedeh, Roy. The Mantle of the Prophet

– Nasr, Vali. A History of the Arab Peoples

– Nedali, Mohamed. Triste Jeunesse

– Nusseibeh, Sari. Once upon a Country

– Nydell, Margaret. From Modern Standard Arabic to the _____ Dialect/s

– Ostovar, Afshon. Vanguard of the Imam

– Pamuk, Orhan. Snow 

– Pennell, C.R. Morocco since 1830

– Pollack, Kenneth. Armies of Sand

– Posusney, Marsha P. Authoritarianism in the Middle East

– Rashad, Ahmed. Taliban

– Razoux, Pierre. The Iran-Iraq War

– Ricks, Thomas. Fiasco

– Said, Edward. Orientalism

– Saikal, Amin. Iran Rising

– Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

– Sky, Emma. In a Time of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt

– Soloman, Jay. The Iran Wars

– Talmadge, Caitlin. The Dictator’s Army

– Thesiger, Wildfred. Arabian Sands

– Tolan, Sandy The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

– Totten, Michael. The Road to Fatima Gate

– Tzemach, Gayle. The Daughters of Kobani

– Van Buren, Peter. We Meant Well

– Wald, Ellen. Saudi, Inc. 

– Warrick, Joby. Black Flags

– Wehrey, Frederic. The Burning Shores

– Wright, John. A History of Libya

– Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower

– Yassin-Kassab, Robin. Burning Country: Syria in Revolution and War

 

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