The Road to 9/11: A chronology
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Websites
America’s War Against Terrorism, 9/11
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
Extremely thorough portal site from the University of Michigan Documents Center.
Arc of Crisis: From Kabul to Jerusalem
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/
arccrisis/about.html
University course website examining issues of land, religion, nationalism and terror since the end of the Ottoman empire.
BBC On This Day: Middle East
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/themes/
conflict_and_war/middle_east/default.stm
Timeline of BBC news stories from the Middle East from January 1952 to May 2000.
Defining Middle Eastern Borders: Lines in the sand
www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/mideast
Examination of the changing boundaries in the region due to geographical, economic, political and cultural factors.
MidEastWeb Gateway
www.mideastweb.org
Relatively even-handed website providing ‘Facts, History, Opinions, Peace Education and Dialogue’. The ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Nutshell’ section is particularly useful.
Books
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a sceptical Muslim by
Ziauddin Sardar (Granta, 2005)
Sardar sets out to grasp the meaning of his religion and, hopefully, to find 'paradise', his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to China to Turkey.
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Taliban: Islam, oil and the new Great Game in central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (Pan, 2001)
Written by a Pakistani journalist, this details how and why the Taliban came to power, the Afghan government's oppression of ordinary citizens (especially women), the heroin trade, oil intrigue and Osama bin Laden's sinister rise to power.
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Wars of National Liberation by Daniel Moran (Cassell, 2002)
Accompanied by 150 maps and illustrations, an extensive chronology and appendices, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the numerous bloody conflicts that have been waged around the world since World War II.
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