Middle East Conflicts


On Palestine
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Defeating the Islamic State Group: The Battle for Kobani
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
The Egyptians
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Thomas Ferreolus
We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!
Thomas Ferreolus, Sounds of War: Iraq Attack of Thomas Edington

Dexter Filkins
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. ...more
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War

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