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Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon

By Lucia Volk

Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

By Bedross Der Matossian

Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward

By Kenneth M. Pollack, Raad Alkadiri, J. Scott Carpenter

Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam

By Lev E. Weitz

The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey

By Perin Gurel

Everyday Life of the North American Indians

By Jon Manchip White

Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust

By Samuel P. King, Randall W. Roth

Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States

By D.C. Hammack

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer

Post-Saddam Iraq: New Realities, Old Identities, Changing Patterns

By Amnon Cohen, Noga Efrati

France: An Adventure History

By Graham Robb

Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941

By James F. Goode

Africa Now: People, Policies and Institutions

By Stephen Ellis

Arab-Israeli Diplomacy under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians

By Jorgen Jensehaugen

Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By Elie Podeh

Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: The Turkish Secret Service, the US and the UK

By Egemen Bezci

Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel

By Cary Nelson

Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions

By Joy Gordon

The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005

By Steve A. Yetiv (Old Dominion University)

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran: Challenges for U.S. Security

By Jacquelyn Davis (Pls note: Prof. Pfaltzgraff is primary contact), Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis)

Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900

By Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsen, Heather Bursheh, David A. McDonald, Issa Boulos

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

By Daniel Monterescu

A History of the American People

By Paul Johnson

Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-1993

By B. A. Ogot, W. R. Ochieng

David Rattray's Guide to the Zulu War

By David Rattray, Adrian Greaves

Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals

By Niall Ferguson

Nuer Prophets

By H. Johnson

Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

By Michael Martin, Lee McIntyre (Center for Philosophy and History of Science)

Shenandoah Heritage: The Story of the People Before the Park

By Reeder, Carolyn & Reeder Jack