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For younger readers

Dudley, William, ed. The Middle East. Greenhaven, 1992. Causes of conflicts. For middle school to adult readers.

Long, Cathryn J. The Middle East in Search of Peace. Millbrook, 1996. For middle school readers.

Wilkinson, Philip, and Jacqueline Dineen. The Lands of the Bible. Chelsea House, 1994. Historic sites, for readers in grades 5 to 7.

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Ajami, Fouad. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey. Pantheon, 1998. Four distinct narratives provide a minihistory of the Middle East and portray the experiences of Arabs growing up after World War II.

Cleveland, William L. A History of the Modern Middle East. 2nd ed. Westview, 2000. The past two centuries of Middle Eastern history.

Field, Michael. Inside the Arab World. Harvard University Press, 1995. Today's Arab affairs, including oil, wars, peace talks, and terrorists.

Fromkin, David. Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922. Avon, Holt, 1990. 2001. Describes the political and diplomatic acts that led to the Paris settlement of 1922, which delineated the boundaries of the Middle East.

Goldschmidt, Arthur. A Concise History of the Middle East. 7th ed. Westview, 2001. Introductory college-level text.

Hiro, Dilip. Dictionary of the Middle East. St. Martin's, 1996, 1998. Reference work covering ethnic groups, governments, languages, leaders, and religions.

Keay, John. Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East. Norton, 2003. Views problems in the Middle East as the result of Western involvement and manipulation.

Kuhrt, Amelie. The Ancient Near East. Routledge, 1996. Detailed history of three millennia, covering empires, modern countries, kingship, trade, culture, and economic trends.

Lewis, Bernard. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. Scribner, 1995, 1997. General history with maps and a chronology.

Spencer, William. The Middle East. McGraw-Hill, 2000. Basic information about the Middle East and its peoples, arranged alphabetically by country.

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