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Home / General Overviews — Library eReference Sources (Encyclopedias, etc.)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations

Bahrain   |   Cyprus   |   Egypt   |   Iran   |   Iraq   |   Israel   |   Jordan   |   Kuwait   |  Lebanon

Oman   |   Palestine   |   Qatar   |   Saudi Arabia   |   Syria   |   Turkey

United Arab Emirates   |   Yemen


CQ Researcher

Unrest in the Arab World: Will the Arab Spring Lead to More Change?(2013)

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is a Two-State Solution Still Possible? (2013)

Turmoil in the Arab World: Will Democracy Emerge from the Arab Spring? (2011)


Middle East Conflict

Forging New Nations from the Ottoman Empire: 1918 to 1950

Palestine and Zionist Settlement: Nineteenth Century to 1948

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1948 to 1973

Israeli-Palestinian Relations: 1973 to 2011

The Palestinian Authority: 2004 to 2011

Syria and Lebanon 1936 to 1990

The Rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon: 1990

The Iran-Iraq War: 1980 to 1988        

The Gulf Wars: 1991 to 2011

Other Rising Middle Eastern Nations in the 20th Century

Conflicts with Repressive Governments in the Early 21st Century

The Arab Spring         

Western Views of the Middle East

 

The Encyclopedia of Political Science

Middle Eastern Politics and Society

Democracy: Middle East Perspectives

 

The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars

Middle East, History of, 1918-1945

Middle East, History of, 1945-Present

 

History in Dispute

Is the Term Middle East Outdated?

 

Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right

Middle East ("Left")

Middle East ("Right")

 

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Middle East

Anticolonialism: Middle East

Religion: Middle East

Religion and the State: Middle East

 

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism

Imperialism: Middle East

Minorities: Middle East

Nationalism and Ethnicity: Middle East

 

Encyclopedia of Global Religions

Middle East

 

The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars

Music, Middle East

 

Reader's Companion to American History

Middle East-U.S. Relations

 

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Gender and Education

Gender and the Economy

Gender and Politics

 

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450

Clothing and Fashion, Middle East

Education, Middle East

Ideology, Political, Middle East

Independance and Decolonization, Middle East

 

Islam and Modernity

Multiple readings (politics, law, gender, tradition, etc.)