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Syria

Abu Jaber, Kemal, The Arab Baath Socialist Party, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1966.

Al-Khatib, Muhammad Kamil and Maher Barakat, Just Like a River, Interlink Pub Group, 2002, ISBN: 1566564751, Buy/Reviews.

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Brigman, James L., Why Israel slept: an analysis of Israel's Unpreparedness for the Yom Kippur war, Maxwell Air Force base, AL, Air Command and Staff College, Air University, 1976.

Bulloch, John, The making of a war: the Middle East from 1967 to 1973, London, Longmans, Green, 1974,ISBN: 0-582780608, Buy/Reviews.

Burgoyne, Michael H., Mamluk Jerusalem : An Architectural Study, Essex, World of Islam Festival Trust, 1987.

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Firro, Kais, Inventing Lebanon : nationalism and the state under the Mandate, London, I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Frankel, Jonathan., The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder,' Politics, and the Jews in 1840, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN: 0521483964, Buy/Reviews.

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Handel, Michael I., Perception, deception and surprise: the case of the Yom Kippur war, Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976.

Hinnebusch, Raymond, Syria: Revolution from Above, NYC, Routledge, 2001, ISBN: 041526779X,Buy/Reviews.

Hitti, Philip, An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusade, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987.

Holt, P. M., Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 1260-90: Treaties of Baybars and Qalawun with Christian Rulers, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1995.

Holt, P. M., Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, 1516-1922, A Political History, lthaca: Cornell University Press, 1966.

Holt,P. M. (ed.), The Eastern Mediterranean Lands in the Period of the Crusades, Warminster, 1977.

Hopwood, Derek, Russian Interests in Syria and Palestine, 1800-1901, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1966.

Irwin, Robert, The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1382, London, Croom Helm, 1986.

James, David Lewis, Qurans of the Mamluks, London, Alexandria Press, 1988.

Kass, Ilana, Soviet involvement in the Middle East, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1978.

Kerr, Malcolm H., The Arab Cold War: Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals, I958-1970, London, Oxford University Press, 1971.

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Khouri, Philip, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987.

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Kimche, David and Dan Bawly, The Sandstorm: The Arab-Israeli War of June, 1967, Prelude and Aftermath, NYC, Stein and Day, 1971.

Laqueur, Walter, The Road to War: The Origins and Aftermath of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-8, Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1968.

Levanoni, A., A Turning Point in Mamluk History: The Third Reign of al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qalawun 1318-1341, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1995.

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Little, Donald P., An Introduction to Mamluk Hisoriography: an Analysis of Arabic Analistic and Geographical Sources for the Reign of al-Malik an-Nasir Muhammad b. Qala'un, Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 1970.

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Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley, Syria and Lebanon under French mandate, London, Oxford University Press, 1958.

Lutfi, Huda A., Al-Quds al-Mamlukiyya:A History of Mamluk Jerusalem Based on the Haram Documents, Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1985.

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Marcus, Abraham, The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century, New York, Columbia University Press, 1989.

Moore, John Norton (ed.), The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Volume IV: The Difficult Search for Peace (I975- I988), Part One, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991.

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Parker, Richard B. and Saunders, Harold H. (ed.), The Six-Day War: A Retrospective, University Press of Florida, 1996.

Peters, Joan, The Syrians in Egypt 1725-1975, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1985.

Petry, Carl F., Twilight of Majesty: The Reign of Mamluk Sultans al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qansuh al-Ghawri in Egypt, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1993.

Pipes, Daniel, Damascus Courts The West, Washington, D.C, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1991.

Pipes, Daniel, Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, NYC, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Rabinovich, Itamar, Syria under the Ba'th, 1963-1966: The Army-Party Symbiosis, Jerusalem, Israel Universities Press, 1972.

Rafeq, Abdul-Karim, The Province of Damascus 1723-1783, Beirut, Khayat, 1970.

Raff, Thomas, An Anti-Mongol Fatwa of Ibn Taimiya, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1973.

Reed, Fred, Shattered Images:The Rise of Militant Iconoclasm in Syria, Vancouver, Canada, Talon books, 2003, ISBN: 0-88922-4854.

Russell, Malcolm B., The First Modern Arab State: Syria Under Faysal, 1918-1920, Minneapolis, Biblioteca Islamica, 1985.

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Schiff, Zeev, Israel-Syria Negotiations: Lessons Learned 1993-1996, DC, Washington Institute For Near East Policy, 1997.

Schiff, Zeev, October earthquake: Yom Kippur 1973 (Translated by Louis Williams), Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, 1974.

Schweitzer, Avram, The Struggle for Syria: A Study in Post-War Arab Politics, I945-I958, London, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Seale, Patrick, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988.

Seale, Patrick, The Struggle for Syria, NYC, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Sinai, Anne and Allen Pollack, The Syrian Arab Republic, NYC, American Academic Association for Peace in th, 1976.

Sobel, Lester A. (ed.), Israel and the Arabs: the October 1973 war, NYC, Facts on File, 1974, **ISBN:**0-871961733, Buy/Reviews.

Thompson, Elizabeth, Colonial Citizens : Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (History and Society of the Modern Middle East series), NYC, Columbia Univ Press, 2000.

Tibawi, A. L., A Modern History of Syria, including Lebanon and Palestine, London, Macmillan Press, 1969.

Torrey, Gordon, Syrian Politics and the Military (I945-I958), Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1964.

Usamah b. Munqidh, Kitab al-I'tibar. Translated by Philip K. Hitti as The Memoirs of Usamah b. Munqidh: An Arab Syrian Gentleman and Warrior. (Autobiography), New York, Columbia University Press, 1929.

Van Creveld, Martin, Military lessons of the Yom Kippur war: historical perspectives, Beverly Hills, and London, Sage Publications, 1975, ISBN: 0-803905629,Buy/Reviews.

Vermeulen, U and D. De Smet (ed.), Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, Leuven, Peeters Publishers, 1995.

Volney, Constantine Francois Chasseboeuf, Conte de, Travels Through Syria & Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784 & 1785. London, G. G. J. & J. Robinson, 1787.

Warriner, Doreen, Land Reform and Development in the Middle East: A Study of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, London, Oxford University Press, 1962.

Weinberger Naomi J., Syrian Intervention in Lebanon: The 1975-76 Civil War, NYC, Oxford University Press, 1986.

Wheeler, Michael O. Gay, Kemper V., Nuclear weapons and the 1973 Middle East war, Washington, DC, Center for National Security Negotiations, 1996.

Wilson, Jeremy, Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence, NYC, Macmillan, 1987.

Wolff, R. L. (ed.), A History of the Crusades, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.

Ziadeh, N. A., Urban Life in Syria under the Early Mamluks, Westport, 1953.

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Tunisia

Awret, Irene, 1920, Days of honey : the Tunisian boyhood of Raphael Uzan, New York, Schocken Books, 1984.

Borowiec, Andrew, Taming the Sahara: Tunisia Shows a Way While Others Falter, NYC, Greenwood, 2003, ISBN: 0-275-97647-5.

Bourguiba, Habib, Introduction to the History of the National Movement, Tunis, Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Information, 1962.

Brown, Loon Carl, The Tunisia of Ahmed Bey, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1974.

King, Stephen J., Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia, Indiana University Press, 2003, ISBN: 0-253215838, Buy/Reviews.

Micaud, Charles A., with Leon Carl Brown and Clement Henry Moore, Tunisia: The Politics of Modernization, New York, Praeger, 1964.

Mzali, Mohammed-Salah, and Jean. Pignon (ed.), Kheredine, homme d'etat: memoires, Tunis, Maison Tunisienne de I'Edition, 1971.

Zartman, I. William, Tunisia : the political economy of reform, Boulder, CO, Rienner, 1991, **ISBN:**1-55587-230-1, Buy/Reviews.

Ziadeh, Nicola, Origins of Nationalism in Tunisia, Beirut, American University of Beirut Press, 1962.

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United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Heard-Bey, Frauke, From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates, London & NYC, Longman, 1982, **ISBN:**0-582-78032-2, Buy/Reviews.

Holton, Patricia, Mother Without a Mask: A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family, Cathie Kyle, 2001, ISBN: 185626288X, Buy/Reviews.

Kechichian, Joseph A. (ed.), A Century in Thirty Years : Shaykh Zayed and the United Arab Emirates, DC, Middle East Policy Council, 2000, ISBN: 0-943-18208-5,Buy/Reviews.

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Yemen

Aithie, Charles, and Patricia Aithie, Yemen: Jewel of Arabia, Stacey Intl, 2000, ISBN: 1900988151, Buy/Reviews.

Bury, George W., and Smith, Clive, Arabia Infelix : Or the Turks in Yamen, Garnet Pub Ltd, 1999.

Dorsky, Susan, Women of `Amran : a Middle Eastern ethnographic study, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1986.

Dresch, Paul, A History of Modern Yemen, Cambridge, Eng, Cambridge Univ Press, 2001, ISBN: 0-52179482X, Buy/Reviews.

Golan, Aviezer, Operation Susannah, NYC, Harper & Row, 1978.

Halliday, Fred, Revolution and Foreign Policy : The Case of South Yemen 1967-1987, Cambridge, Eng, Cambridge Univ Press, 2002, ISBN: 0-52189164, Buy/Reviews.

Marechaux, Pascal, and Maria Marechaux, Impressions of Yemen, Flammarion, 1997, ISBN: 208013647X, Buy/Reviews.

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