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The Arabs by
In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. In this updated and expanded edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region to offer a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world. "Deeply erudite and distinctly humane." -- Atlantic "An outstanding, gripping and exuberant narrative . . . that explains much of what we need to know about the world today." -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times
Call Number: 909.049 27 ROGISBN: 9780465025046Publication Date: 2011- Key features of modern history by Arab Israeli conflict; Balfour Declaration; Camp David Accord; Israel; Oslo Accords; Palestine; Six Day War; Suez crisis; Yom Kippur WarCall Number: 909.82 DENISBN: 9780195513370Publication Date: 2000
Israel and Palestine by
History of conflict, Intifada, peace negotiations.
Call Number: 956.04 KINISBN: 9781844432042Publication Date: 2006
Books on the Middle East
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Palestine
- Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine
A comprehensive guide to the basics of the world’s most controversial conflict.
- pan-ArabismThe idea that the Arabs are a distinct people with a common language, history, and culture. Pan‐Arabism emerged in the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
- Rise of Arab nationalismThe Ottoman Empire had exercised formal sovereignty over the lands of Arabia since the early 16th century. For much of that time it had ruled with a comparatively light touch, garrisoning key trading ports and maintaining an official presence in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina...
- Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity“Write down, I am an Arab!” begins the renowned poem of resistance by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, written in 1963 to assert an Arab identity denied by Israel and the West.3 The poem immediately entered the Arab nationalist canon, to be recited from memory by a generation of schoolchildren.
Under Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, pan-Arabism dominated politics in the 1950s and 1960s
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Abdel Nasser was a charismatic legend who bought into a socialist ideology that was hostile to imperialism and Zionism.
Hammud, H. (n.d.). Arab nationalism and political Islam: Secularism – ″the other option″? Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World. https://en.qantara.de/content/arab-nationalism-and-political-islam-secularism-the-other-option
- Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 1988Coming nearly a quarter-century after the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and two decades after Palestinian guerrilla factions assumed control of that organization, the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988 seemed in some ways a natural outcome of the PLO’s evolution and in other ways a radical break, affirming for the first time an acceptance of Palestine’s partition.
- Remembering the Palestinian Declaration of Independence
RAMALLAH, Sunday, November 15, 2020 (WAFA) – On this day 32 years ago, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat declared from Algiers the independence of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital. - Palestinian Declaration of IndependenceOn the same terrain as God’s apostolic missions to mankind and in the land of Palestine was the Palestinian Arab people brought forth.
TRTWorld. (2017, November 15). Palestine marks 29th anniversary of Declaration of Independence. Palestine marks 29th anniversary of declaration of independence. https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/palestine-marks-29th-anniversary-of-declaration-of-independence-12299
Yasser Arafat when he stood before the members of PNC in its 19th session held in Algeria, where he declared: “In the name of God and in the name of the Palestinian Arab people, I declare the establishment of the State of Palestine on our Palestinian land, with Holy Jerusalem as its capital”
PNC. (2020, November 15). PNC: Independence declaration established the stage for global recognition of the Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital. المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني. https://www.palestinepnc.org/en/news/item/157-pnc-independence-declaration-established-the-stage-for-global-recognition-of-the-palestinian-state-with-jerusalem-as-its-capital
- General Assembly Security CouncilLetter dated 8 October 1993 from the Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States of America to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General.
- The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace ProcessOn September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.
- The price of OsloThe Oslo Accords marked the first time Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) formally recognised one another.
Area C, controlled by Israel under Oslo Accords, in blue and red, in December 2011
- Yasser ArafatBiographical details of Palestinian leader.
- Yasser ArafatArafat was a controversial and polarizing figure throughout his lengthy career. He was widely recognized for leading the Fatah, which he founded in 1957, as the movement that crystallized the dreams and aspirations of the Palestinian people into political action.
- Shimon PeresBiographical information.
- The reasons behind rise in Hamas’ popularity amongst Palestinians...in the view of the Palestinians, Hamas was the last entity standing that still could challenge Israel’s might.
- The rise of Hamas through Israeli-Palestinian conflictThe prospect of long-lasting peace between Israel and Palestine relies on a piece of land, Gaza. Several wars have been fought to control this tiny strip of land that is one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
- Hamas tries to seize the dayThe latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting began in Jerusalem, but it has spread throughout Israel and to Gaza.